Can a US Supreme Court justice be impeached and removed from office? Yes. Under normal circumstances, a Supreme Court justice is awarded a lifetime commission. A Supreme Court Justice may be impeached by the House of Representatives and removed from office if convicted in a Senate trial, but only for the same types of offenses that would trigger impeachment proceedings for any other government official under Article I and II of the Constitution. Section 1 of Article III states that judges of Article III courts shall hold their offices during good behavior. The phrase good behavior has been interpreted by the courts to equate to the same level of seriousness the high crimes and misdemeanors encompasses. In addition, any federal judge may prosecuted in the criminal courts for criminal activity. If found guilty of a crime in a federal district court, the justice would face the same type of sentencing any other criminal defendant would. The district court could not remove him/her from the Bench. However, any justice found guilty in the criminal courts of any felony would certainly be impeached and, if found guilty, removed from office. In the United States, impeachment is most often used to remove corrupt lower-court federal judges from office, but its not unusual to find disgruntled special interest groups circulating petitions on the internet calling for the impeachment of one or all members of the High Court. (more ...) This is from Democratic Underground, M.E.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:33:28 +0000
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