I understand Supreme Court Justices CAN be removed for

[texpatriot2004]

certain actions. Does anybody here know the rules about this? Under what circumstances can these crooks be removed?

[bryant69]

1. High Crimes I would imagine

I doubt it would be the sort of thing you would regularly contemplate for the simple reason that the Courts are supposed to be independent.

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[Davis_X_Machina]

2. Actually...

...because there are nine of them, there is an argument for a lower threshold for SC Justices. The impeachment of one of them would not decapitate a co-equal branch of government.

[bryant69]

3. I don't agree

The effect would be to intimidate the others. So we get rid of, say, Thomas, and Scalia and Roberts start seeing things a bit more our way (or else).

Unless it was clear cut enough that Partisan Politics didn't enter into it of course.

[William769]

4. I would think it would be the same as it is for the President

High crimes & misdemeanors.

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. At the end of the day...

...cynical though it was, Jerry Ford's statement that an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives says it is, is accurate.

There's no place to go, unlike with an indictment, to get a bogus impeachment quashed.

[madinmaryland]

5. Only if it involves bj's.

Then it would play out as an impeachment.

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[CBGLuthier]

7. The Constitution states

That a justice shall hold their offices during good behavior.

That is all it says.

If that were strictly observed we should have lost five of them five years ago.

[texpatriot2004]

10. Yeah, so why are they still there? n/t

[DelawareValleyDem]

8. The Constitution, Article II, Section 4:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

on edit: a list of US Federal Impeachment Cases.

http://www.inq7.net/impeach/impeach.html

Small piece of trivia. A Nixon was impeached, but it was a judge not the President.

[texpatriot2004]

9. Hey thanks for the impeachment history list. n/t

[Geoff R. Casavant]

11. As I recall

at least one Supreme Court Justice, possibly the CJ, was impeached some time in the early half of the 1800s.