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To: thames_sider who wrote (9844)	1/26/2006 11:27:37 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541673

There is a procedure for removing them. "Article III of the Constitution provides that the Justices, and all other federal judges, hold their offices "during good Behaviour." (and while they serve, their pay cannot be cut.) They may resign at any time, or retire when eligible. Once confirmed, however, they may be removed—in accordance with Article II—only by "Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." In effect they serve for life. Never in the Nation’s history has a Supreme Court Justice been removed by impeachment."

To: thames_sider who wrote (9844)	1/26/2006 12:36:55 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541673

They can be impeached but its never happened and isn't likely to happen.

To: thames_sider who wrote (9844)	1/26/2006 2:27:40 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541673

I can only assume you wrote this post with tongue in cheek, or that you are a teenager. I did not say nor do I think that the SC is the "ultimate source of power" nor do I think the far right in the US thinks so. That's a misunderstanding of my point. My point was rather that the issues which interested the right the most, the solutions to which gave them the most promise of getting done and done so for the long term, was to get presidents and congresses in place to change the character of the supreme court. The only way, at least that I'm aware of, removing a supreme court justice is impeachment. I recall, from the 60s and 70s, talk in the House of Representatives about impeaching Justices Warren and Douglas. But the act of such talk defined the talker as an extremist. I'm not aware of any serious attempts to impeach an SC justice, let alone any successful ones.