> Can we than fire the judge? This was a federal district judge, who under the U.S. Constitution (Article III) has life tenure and can't be fired; he can be re

> Can we than fire the judge? This was a federal district judge, who under the U.S. Constitution (Article III) has life tenure and can't be fired; he can be removed from office only if impeached by the House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate after a trial. The chief judge of the district could cut this judge's case load to zero [0]. In this case, though, (A) that's very unlikely to happen, and (B) the judge would still stay on full salary. [0] EDIT: This sort of happened, for example, to (now-former) federal district judge Sam Kent in Galveston after he was accused of "inappropriate touching" of female court employees. See http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Criminal-cases-stripped-from-Kent-s-docket-1556195.php http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Criminal-cas... Kent later pled guilty to a felony charge of making false statements to investigators; he tried to retire from the bench so as to keep his pension, but that pissed off the House judiciary committee, which pushed through articles of impeachment, which caused Kent to resign. He served not quite three years in prison. See http://bigbendnow.com/2011/08/disgraced-former-judge-completes-felony-sentence-in-jeff-davis-county/ http://bigbendnow.com/2011/08/disgraced-former-judge-complet... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_B._Kent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_B._Kent