The US Constitution, prostituted

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Thanks to all for the thoughtful replies; thanks to those who actually understood why I posted this in the first place, realizing that the presidential election was more about the supreme court than the white house...

We all need to realize just how dangerous the supreme court has become. Personal views are fine, and allowing your beliefs to influence your decisions is fine. But legislating your beliefs is NOT ok. Judicial decisions MUST be made in accordance with law. Imagine this: a devout member of one of the fundamentalist/charismatic christian sects manages to get his church dogmas into law. Suddenly, by law, women may not wear makeup, must have a cow-patty hairdo, wear long denim skirts, and comfortable-yet-practical shoes.

My point in the original post was that by declaring a partial truth about constitutional law in his speech, he clouded the mission of the supreme court. No, of course, the constitution does NOT specifically address homosexual behavior. Nor does it specifically address heterosexual behavior. What two consenting adults do with a penis is neither endorsed nor prohibited by the constitution.

I asked once in a different thread, and I will ask again... can a supreme court (in)justice be impeached?
 

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DC_DEEP said:
I asked once in a different thread, and I will ask again... can a supreme court (in)justice be impeached?

Apparently some right wing conservatives have already discussed such a scenario regarding Justice Kennedy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38308-2005Apr8.html

Although, thankfully, there's a petition out there to impeach Scalia, too:

http://www.petitiononline.com/1776imp/petition.html

So short answer appears to be "yes" (and my apologies for taking the long way to get there).
 

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Lucky_Luke said:
I for one am thankful I live in Canada.

Veiled racism is ugly.

No Racism here. Veiled or otherwise.

Now If you think I have a problem with The federal Liberals, well then
Yes, I have issues. And It's not racism, its called common sense. Something
most Torontonians lack desperately. Otherwise how can they still support
a corrupt group of criminals election after election.
 

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to answer the removal from office question:

Yes, a justice can be removed.

It requires that half of the house vote for article(s) of impeachment , then 2/3rds of the senate must agree. The only real reason impeachment is considered would probably be in the case of actual criminal wrongdoing, or some ethical breach, the kind that would get a lawyer disbarred (we know how often that actually happens).

another way to change the court is to cut it's membership (there's no requirement for 9 justices anywhere) and congress gets to set how many there are, but that doesn't make clear how to decide "who's out and who's in".