The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

There are two sorts of supposedly conservative judges.  The first look hard at the intent of the authors and reading the text as written.  I can live with that.  The other sort legislates from the bench.  They have a political agenda and will find reason to interpret the law as their political ideology would prefer it.  With the new appointment of another conservative judge, many are fearing that with the loss of the senate and the White House, the Supreme Court could become a third branch of congress, a way for Trumpism to linger past it's time.

What could the Democrats do about it?  Most by now have heard of a threat to increase the size of the court, to restore some semblance of balance after Biden gets in.

But I have started daydreaming about impeachment.  Any federal employee can be impeached.  With Trumpism, they have set the example that principle are expendable, only the raw vote counts.  That implies that if you can get two thirds of the senate to agree, the supposedly life time appointment can be terminated.

Do we want to set a course where legislation from the bench is grounds for impeachment.  Oh, the won't get enough senators this time around.  If the justices try doing stuff like killing health insurance in a pandemic, killing reproductive rights, etc... going in the face of the will of the people, should the Democrats throw one aspect of Trumpism back at them in 2022?  Wipe the court clean of conservative justices?  Anyone who legislates from the bench goes?

Anyway, it makes for an interesting daydream.