Internal DOJ Email: Kagan Was Brought Into Loop on Mark Levin’s Obamacare Complaint

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[Repeal The 17th]

Constitution of the United States
Article I Section 2:
The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.

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.

Article III Section 1:
The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
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It has been long held by legal tradition that the phrase “The judges ... shall hold their offices during good behavior” found in Article III Section I means they are appointed for life as long as their “behavior” is “good”.

Various courts have interpreted the language “during good behavior” to be of the same level of seriousness as “high crimes and misdemeanors”.

Ultimately, The House of Representatives is fully and independently vested with the duty and responsibility of determining what constitutes an impeachable offense.

A Supreme Court Justice may be impeached by the House of Representatives and then removed from office if convicted in a Senate trial the same as any other government official under Article I and II of the Constitution.

Although the mechanism exists, ONLY ONE Supreme Court Justice has ever been formally “impeached” by the House of Representatives, and NO Supreme Court justice has EVER been “removed from office” by the Senate.

1804- Samuel Chase (a signer of the Declaration of Independence) was accused by the House of Representatives of letting his political leanings affect his rulings and served him with eight articles of impeachment. One article concerned Chase’s handling of the trial of John Fries; two concerned his conduct in the trial of James Callender; four concerned Chase’s procedural errors on various matters; and the eighth article had to do with Chase’s “intemperate and inflammatory”; “indecent and unbecoming”; “highly unwarrantable”; and “highly indecent” remarks made to a Baltimore grand jury. In 1805, the Senate acquitted Chase of all charges, establishing the right of the judiciary to independent opinion. Chase continued to serve until his death in 1811.

1957- Earl Warren, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Tom Campbell Clark, Felix Frankfurter, and Stanley Forman Reed were all named in a resolution passed by the Georgia General Assembly and signed by Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin. Nothing ever came of this effort. The resolution was titled “The Impeachment of Certain U.S. Supreme Court Justices”, and targeted the six Supreme Court Justices who were believed to be enabling communism with their decisions “for usurping the congressional power to make law in violation of Article I, Sections I and 8”; for “violations of Sections 3 and 5 of the 14th Amendment”; and for “nullification of the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.” Signs were erected across the south saying “Impeach Earl Warren”, many of which were still standing when Warren retired from the bench in 1969.

1969- Abe Fortas was almost impeached due to a tax and financial scandal involving Wall Street financier, Louis Wolfson. When President Richard Nixon learned of the scandal, he said Fortas should be “off of there”. The House of Representatives had already taken preliminary steps toward impeachment. Chief Justice Earl Warren urged Fortas to resign, to save the reputation of the Court. Fortas resisted at first, but eventually stepped down “to avoid damaging his wife’s legal career”.

[tioga]

Wow. She is nailed with this one. Liars abound in theO’s cabinet. Now she is enthroned on the SCOTUS. Elections have consequences.

Remember.........fall of 2012 it’s anybody but obama. be prepared to pinch your nose and pull the lever for the GOP.

[grumpygresh]

Could anyone enforce the law impose a recusal on the fat little Marxist? Are we a nation of laws or a nation of fascist pukes?

[Verginius Rufus]

No, it's OK to lie under oath if you're a Democrat.

Teddy on how many drinks he had before driving his car off the bridge. Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Eric Holder before Congress.

It's taken for granted--Democrats aren't expected to tell the truth.