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Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "BREAKING: Impeachment articles filed against Supreme Court justices" video.
It won't, the GOP likes the way that they've been ruling and they definitely won't allow them to be removed from office without having the ability to replace them with their choices.
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@gregwalker6281 Theoretically, that's what impeachment and court expansion/packing are for. Or, you go nuclear by flat out refusing to enforce their rulings. Remember, the court doesn't actually have the constitutional power to do a lot of what they're doing, overturning laws isn't a constitutionally granted power.
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The won't, there's a very high bar that would require finding GOP politicians willing to follow through on removing them from office. Just look at what happened with the impeachments of Trump. The parties mostly just voted along party lines and there was no genuine effort on either side to look at all the facts and consider both the view that he should be removed and the view that he shouldn't.
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@DannaMcAllister Voting for judges is pretty much pointless as very few people are qualified to make a judgment of their qualifications. Voting for judges isn't like voting for most other offices, a good judge can be hard to identify if you're not an attorney as so much of what goes on in court isn't something that makes much sense without training. And that includes me, I don't think that I'm qualified to vote for judges, so I'll usually rely heavily on trade groups to make recommendations about which candidates to vote for when I do vote.
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This is where elections matter. There aren't the necessary votes to win a vote in the house, and there definitely aren't enough to win in the Senate either. This will go nowhere, but at least somebody is doing something, even if it's completely symbolic. This is also why it would have been such a good idea to expel the seditious members of congress that were involved in trying to steal the last Presidential election.
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It's easy to have balls when there's no chance of it actually going anywhere. Sort of like when the Democrats were for hazard pay for essential workers, until they had the votes to plausibly do it. At which point, they made no attempt at all.
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The underlying issue is that the right continues to nominate incompetent and corrupt judges and the left doesn't feel like what happens on the court is important enough to go to war over. Really, what we need is a constitutional amendment putting term limits in place, requiring a code of ethics that exceeds that of the rest of the courts and that the President be required to only nominate judges that are on a list created by a bipartisan working group. Those things wouldn't solve the problem completely, but they should put enough guard rails in place that the current wholesale corruption wouldn't happen again.
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