Impeachment gets a lot of screen time on dKos -- Bush, Cheney, Gonzo -- but not enough, I think, to the possibility of impeaching SCOTUS judges who are cleary partisan and who have lied during their nomination hearings -- namely Roberts, Alito, and Thomas.
More below the fold....
My first ever dKos diary was on perjury committed by Clarence Thomas. Mark Crispin Miller has a great short video on reasons to go after this wingnut and get him off our court.
This new diary was sparked when I read that Specter is going to look into testimony by Roberts and Alito during their confirmation hearings, to see if they misled the Senate, particularly regarding stare decisis , the respect for historical precedents.
Apparently, Specter bumped in Justice Breyer, who pointed out to him how radically the Roberts Court has ignored stare decisis, despite confirmation assurances to the contrary.
Specter, however, said Breyer's statement was "an especially forceful criticism of the Roberts court."
"I only noticed it in a couple of cases," Specter said of the court overturning or undermining precedents. But Breyer, in their Aspen conversation, said "there were eight."
The reasons being given for his probe are so that future confirmation hearings can benefit -- i.e. so they can ask the hard questions that they should have asked in these most recent confirmation hearings. And Specter claims he'll conduct the review, "when he has a spare moment."
But nonetheless, the fact that that is in the news, and in the minds of our Senators, is a big deal. And I for one hope it can go as far as to lead to impeachment of these wingnut Justices who have zero respect for the law.
Full article at Politico here...
UPDATE: I've been looking online for specific precedents of bringing impeachment against a sitting SCOTUS justice. Found this at ZNET. It describes conservatives bringing impeachment against Justice Douglas 3 seperate times, essentially for being a liberal.
According to the Constitution, a Supreme Court Justice can only be impeached for failing to exercise "good behavior."
That's a pretty "liberal" standard, and if conservatives could bring proceedings against Douglas three times because they just didn't like him, we certainly can bring them against Justices who've committed perjury!!