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Judges should be accountable, like everybody else. Impeachment mechanism should have real strength - it doesn't seem to have it now. Cases of impeaching judges
by avmich 6y ago
Judges should be accountable, like everybody else. Impeachment mechanism should have real strength - it doesn't seem to have it now. Cases of impeaching judges for sufficiently erroneous rulings should be quite possible.
This is an opinion.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoAccountable to the law? Absolutely. That sort of removal could be done by a judicial council or some other construct of internal professionals - just as a lawyer can become disbarred. "Tough on Crime" is anathema to actual justice.
- avmich 6y ago> Accountable to the law? Absolutely The country is the country of people, they establish all the mechanisms. Including law. The "country of people" legally is written in founding papers, but here we're questioning on the level of founding papers. Constitution offers a mechanism to change it as a whole; but there currently are other mechanisms too. Working judges impeachment should perhaps be practical - or it should be clear why not.
- munk-a 6y agoImpeachments of judges (up to and including the supreme court) is something that is probably possible, it seems to be covered by general laws around mid-term removal from office - it just hasn't been thoroughly exercised in the US since nobody wants the headache of trying to counter all the lawsuits associated with it.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoHuh? What lawsuits? There is an impeachment trial and that's it.