Seeking input from those with legal expertise for an answer to a question

[jotsy]

Is there any legal precedence for impeaching a supreme court? Can the lower courts do something like this?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. No.

Period.

[MercutioATC]

2. Is this prompted by the recent SCOTUS decision?

You may not like the ramifications, but the ruling is a solid interpretation of existing law.

The Judiciary doesn't write the laws. If you want a different view of corporate personhood, you have to rewrite the law.

[jotsy]

4. Yes.

Seeking legal remedy to me is preferable to an unhinged response of the volatile masses. I don't want bloodshed but know that this democracy as a working model doesn't seem to live up to the expectations of its theoretical design.

[MercutioATC]

6. I agree with your assessment 100%

[madaboutharry]

3. Justices on the Supreme Court can be impeached.

Associate Justice Samuel Chase was impeached in 1811. He was acquitted.

[jotsy]

9. Is that to say then they would be individually, rather than collectively addressed or considered?

Was Samuel Chase by any chance of the Chase Bank we know today?

[lynne]

5. Yes, it can be done if you can prove Treason, Bribery, High Crimes or Misdemeanors -

- Not liking a ruling won't cut it as a reason for impeachment.

[MercutioATC]

7. ...and then they have to be convicted in a Senate trial.

[jotsy]

8. The state of the citizenry and the question of further peril goes well beyond what I don't like.

I have no expertise with regard to legalities and details of undoing unprincipled government mechanisms, that is why I posed the question. I could go over your list, I wouldn't expect you'd have a positive response to any of my positions based on the manner of your response.

As for bribery, with the judicial branch now undergoing the electorate process in some states, counties and other local governments (like mine), I see the same institutionalized bribery that is so pervasive in congress selling what ever the corporatocracy sees as justice.

As for the other 3, look no further than Bush v. Gore.