Members of the House of Representatives serve 2-year terms and have to be re-elected (re-appointed) by the voters every 2 years.
How often do the public get to re-examine a SCOTUS appointment?
Members of the House of Representatives serve 2-year terms and have to be re-elected (re-appointed) by the voters every 2 years.
They're not supposed to.
Indirectly, through POTUS+Congress. Correct?
It’s a lifetime appointment. Once they’re confirmed , there’s no mechanism to hold justices accountable or remove them.
The court's refusal to take up the companion case to this one seems to put the lie to the idea that the Court was engaging in judicial activism and simply looking for any way possible to strike down Biden's absurd pretension to debt cancellation.Ken wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:46 pmIn all of those cases the plaintiffs clearly had standing and so those cases were all properly before the court.
In Brown v. Board of Education, for example, the Brown family and 12 other black families sued the Topeka School Board for prohibiting their children from attending their local school paid for by their tax dollars and forcing them to bus their children to a black school much further away. That is clear standing. They were suffering a very real injury and 14th Amendment violation.
Except impeachment.
Lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court and lower courts is not actually found anywhere in the Constitution. For that matter, neither is the size of the Supreme Court at 9 members.HondurasKeiser wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 2:10 pmThey're not supposed to.
Has a Justice ever been impeached? There’s been resignations due to scandals.
The Supreme Court only hears about 70 cases each year out of the 7,000+ appeals that it gets. So it only choses to hear about 1 out of every 100 cases and which cases it chooses to hear is obviously a very political process.HondurasKeiser wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 2:38 pmThe court's refusal to take up the companion case to this one seems to put the lie to the idea that the Court was engaging in judicial activism and simply looking for any way possible to strike down Biden's absurd pretension to debt cancellation.Ken wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:46 pmIn all of those cases the plaintiffs clearly had standing and so those cases were all properly before the court.
In Brown v. Board of Education, for example, the Brown family and 12 other black families sued the Topeka School Board for prohibiting their children from attending their local school paid for by their tax dollars and forcing them to bus their children to a black school much further away. That is clear standing. They were suffering a very real injury and 14th Amendment violation.
Samuel Chase (1804) was impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate, so theoretically at least it's possible to remove them from office.