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One can only assume these judges in most cases are extreme right-wingers, corrupt and/or not qualified.
Once Trump and McConnell are gone, what can be done to undo this deep damage to our judicial system? Can these judges go through a second, more legitimate confirmation process with threat of impeachment? Do you see such a process happening?
It's like cancer cells metastasizing. We get the tumor out -- Trump and GOP -- but these cells are there, growing in their malignancy.
Dems pushing through a lot of their judicial picks when able doesn't seem like the answer; the cancer cells will still be there. This isn't merely conservative vs liberal. There is deep pathology with everything connected to Trump and McConnell.
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)And given it takes 67 Senate voted we are talking something really big. The horse has already left the barn. In fact it is probably unlikely that a Dem President will seat many judges the next four years.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,593 posts)I was thinking the same. Lifetime appointments should be stopped the chance of either side packing the courts does not seem right.
Raven123
(4,716 posts)Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)BSdetect
(8,989 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)I don't think it would fly at the SCOTUS level, but at the District Court and Court of Appeals level, maybe
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)The only recourse would be if they committed an impeachable offense, in which case, they could be impeached and removed. But trying to undo the damage and remake the judiciary by removing judges who were properly nominated and confirmed would be a dangerous, slippery slope.
OneGrassRoot
(22,917 posts)Yet don't you think it's likely that they will commit impeachable offenses?
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Most of these judges are incompetent or rank ideologues, but not necessarily corrupt. And incompetence and batshish ideology are not an impeachable offenses.
OneGrassRoot
(22,917 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)you can't really do anything about an individual federal judge once appointed.
The solution would be to expand the federal judiciary - appoint maybe 3 more judges to each district court and another judge to each court of appeals. Sell it as reducing the judicial workload instead of just packing the courts because the GOP and the media are already going to call it court packing