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What about Your FISA Judges, Justice Roberts?
americanthinker ^ | November 26, 2018 | By Daniel John Sobieski

Posted on 11/26/2018 2:25:26 PM PST by dennisw

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1 posted on 11/26/2018 2:25:26 PM PST by dennisw
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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court deals with some of the most sensitive matters of national security – terror threats and espionage. Its work for the most part cannot be examined by the American public, by order of the Congress and the President. It is a tribunal that is completely secret (or supposed to be), its structure largely one-sided, and its members unilaterally chosen by one person.

A rotating panel of federal judges at the FISC decides whether to grant certain types of government requests – wiretapping, data analysis, and other monitoring for “foreign intelligence purposes” of suspected terrorists and spies operating in the United States.

... [T]he 11 judges are appointed exclusively by the Chief Justice of the United States, without any supplemental confirmation from the other two branches of government. John Roberts has named every member of the current court, as a well as a separate three-judge panel to hear appeals of FISC orders, known as the Court of Review.


2 posted on 11/26/2018 2:26:00 PM PST by dennisw
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Can a Chief Justice be impeached?

just an idle question.


3 posted on 11/26/2018 2:29:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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Can a Chief Justice be impeached? just an idle question.

Of course. The House of Representatives can do it with a majority, as I recall.

It takes two thirds of the Senate to convict.

4 posted on 11/26/2018 2:33:53 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Any justice can be impeached, but it's highly improbably since there are liberal judges and conservative judges who protect each other to guarantee the survival of their game.

A problem I always had was how Roberts filled the position left open by Rehnquist and immediately became chief justice over others with a lot more experience and seniority.

An then stepped right in to the role of interpreting law and fictionalizing the Obama tax argument.

5 posted on 11/26/2018 2:34:28 PM PST by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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Yes. Supreme Court Justices are not appointed for “life”, they are appointed for their “period of good behavior”. Violating the Constitution constitutes “bad behavior” as far as I’m concerned. Perhaps Congress, the people with the ability to impeach them does not see it the same way.

For instance, Congress has used the Courts and Exectutive agencies to delegate their authority in order to avoid unpleasant votes. They like it that way, the swamp way.


6 posted on 11/26/2018 2:34:37 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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Mark Levin: It's time for FISA court judges to face scrutiny video 10:20 Mar 1, 2018

Well worth the ten minutes.

7 posted on 11/26/2018 2:36:16 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: NormsRevenge

You think the CJ would get a letter if I sent him one?

(probably another idle question)


8 posted on 11/26/2018 2:39:44 PM PST by Karoo
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Paid and bought


9 posted on 11/26/2018 2:42:33 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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FISA Act created the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and enabled it to oversee requests for surveillance warrants by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies (primarily the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency) against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the U.S.

So a Judge just said OK to spy on a retired US Military Lt. General as a foreign intelligence agent? Okey Dokey, boy have I got a bridge to sell him.......

10 posted on 11/26/2018 2:44:20 PM PST by Lockbox
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"A problem I always had was how Roberts filled the position left open by Rehnquist and immediately became chief justice over others with a lot more experience and seniority."

28 years of bushes, clintons and o'muslims...A reign of treason & terror that no country would survive.

11 posted on 11/26/2018 2:44:24 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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“Any justice can be impeached, but it’s highly improbably since there are liberal judges and conservative judges who protect each other to guarantee the survival of their game.”

And just HOW do any other judges from ANY COURT have ANY JURISDICTION when it comes to impeachment of one of their number? There is this little thingy about separation of powers in The Constitution that rears its ugly head and says that judges can’t protect each other from the oversight of the Congress. In point of fact, with the exception of the SCOTUS, The Congress could abolish every f*cking court in the country! And maybe it would be a good idea, and then we could start of with a completely new slate of judges who would be Constitutionalists.


12 posted on 11/26/2018 2:45:51 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Electric Graffiti

MISS YOU YET?

NO!


13 posted on 11/26/2018 2:47:06 PM PST by vette6387
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I think Trump should provoke direct, public, one-on-one, online debates with different federal judges every week.

It would be an exciting, interesting, and highly successful political gamble.

14 posted on 11/26/2018 2:47:56 PM PST by zeestephen
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Do judges go through background investigations? Because my understand of why they are done is to weed out those who may be subject to blackmail.


15 posted on 11/26/2018 2:56:01 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Yes, Article II (Executive) Section IV. 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.
16 posted on 11/26/2018 2:57:36 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Your Hatred for my white skin makes me a Racist how?)
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To: vette6387
The process for impeaching a SCOTUS Justice is the same as a President. It begins with the impeachment vote in the house which is basically the same as an indictment. Then the actual trial for removal is conducted in the Senate.

It is easy to see that any such action is 99.99% impossible. Thus proving Robert's statement about the political persuasion of judges to be 100% false.

17 posted on 11/26/2018 3:06:38 PM PST by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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Re: “John Roberts has named every member of the current court, as a well as a separate three-judge panel to hear appeals of FISC orders, known as the Court of Review.”

Astounding.

I had no idea Roberts was wholly responsible.

18 posted on 11/26/2018 3:10:18 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: NormsRevenge

He should resign for being both felony stupid and felony biased.


19 posted on 11/26/2018 3:15:16 PM PST by Boomer (The only good leftists are those who have 'left us' for another country)
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b t t t


20 posted on 11/26/2018 3:15:57 PM PST by timestax
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