Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Will Judge Kent be Impeached?

Looks likely. Checks and balances at work.

Only a handful of federal judges have ever been impeached. The impeachment process is separate than the criminal process in order to ensure that trumped up criminal allegations could not be used for political purposes. Fallout from the failed effort to remove Samuel Chase from the Supreme Court has minimized use of impeachments for this reason.