Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
Sure, but you can’t remove a judge except by impeachment. So, if you said the supreme court was now 3 judges you’d effectively be getting rid of judges without using impeachment. Whether that’s legal or not would probably be decided in court, which would get challenged all the way up to… the supreme court.
The law is clear, a Justice can only be removed through impeachment. If Congress were to reduce the total number of seats as has happened a few times historically there simply would not be a new Justice appointed after one passes or resigns.
No, it wasn’t. They were not stupid, and this is really gonna blow your mind:
They can also reduce the number of judges instead of just letting it baloon infinitely.
Sure, but you can’t remove a judge except by impeachment. So, if you said the supreme court was now 3 judges you’d effectively be getting rid of judges without using impeachment. Whether that’s legal or not would probably be decided in court, which would get challenged all the way up to… the supreme court.
The law is clear, a Justice can only be removed through impeachment. If Congress were to reduce the total number of seats as has happened a few times historically there simply would not be a new Justice appointed after one passes or resigns.