>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 impe

>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. Ben Franklin had some thoughts on this as documented here: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/164/ http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/164/