Blog 1.4
1. How much of the House must agree to impeach a judge? How much of the Senate must agree to remove a judge?
A simple 50% plus majority is needed in the house to bring up charges and a 2/3 super majority in the Senate is needed to remove.
2. Has this process ever been used before for the Supreme Court?  How many times? It has only been used once to bring up charges but he was not removed.
3. Where in the Constitution does it set up the impeachment process? In article II section 4 it sets up the impeachment process and who can be impeached.
4. What are the reasons for the impeachments of the 5 most recent judicial impeachments?
Harry Claiborne for Falsifying income tax returns
Alcee Hastings for taking a 150000 dollar bribe
Walter Nixon for Perjury
Samuel Kent for obstruction of Justice and Sexual Abuse
Thomas Porteous was accused of recieving bribes but not brought up on charges before taking offices because of statutes of limitations.
5. Why does the current makeup of the Senate make it unlikely that Supreme Court justices Kavanaugh or Thomas would be removed if impeached today?
The Senate is mostly made of Republicans who would not likely vote to remove a fellow member of their party, and it is even less likely for them to reach a 2/3rds majority, but if we look past party lines we can see that Kavanaugh was not brought up on charges before taking office so there is very little concrete evidence to support it.
6. Why is it hard to tell which offenses are "impeachable offenses" for a justice?
​It is defined as A high Crime or misdemeanor which basically means it is up to the current senates opinion to what is impeachable.

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