I'm wondering if the dems couldn't impeach Kavanaugh after they take power.

[lindysalsagal]

All it takes are votes.

[Louis1895]

1. I was thinking the same thing today!

Seems like he lies a lot.

[manor321]

2. They could try

But how to get enough Republican Senate votes? Very very difficult.

[OnDoutside]

3. It's a dodgy road to go down. However Dr Ford could make a criminal complaint to the police in

Montgomery County, MD., and make it known that she will do so if she doesn't get action by the Senate committee.

[W_HAMILTON]

4. They can.

However, as someone else said, the votes needed in the Senate to remove him from the Supreme Court would be difficult to achieve.

Because of this, I'm all for a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate that runs on nominating additional Supreme Court Justices to offset Gorsuch (seat stolen from Obama) and Kavanaugh (potentially an attempted rapist). There's nothing in the Constituion that prevents this and it would be a mandate were such a Democratic presidential nominee to win the presidency in 2020.

[PoliticAverse]

5. "All it takes are votes." - and a 2/3 vote in the Senate. n/t

[regnaD kciN]

6. Quick answer: NO

Impeachment and conviction require 67 votes, meaning some will have to come from Republicans. Think any will be ready to remove a conservative jurist from the bench under ANY circumstances? At least, with a presidential impeachment, they would be reassured with the knowledge that said president would be succeeded by an ideologically-compatible VP, but a SCOTUS impeachment would give the power of replacement to the current president, meaning a Democrat.

Count on it: if Kavanaugh is confirmed, he’ll serve for life, and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it.

[FBaggins]

7. Easily

But they can't get a 2/3 vote to convict.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Not bloody likely.

The process of impeaching of a Supreme Court justice is the same as that for impeaching a president - articles of impeachment voted on by a majority of the House Judiciary Committee, then a majority of the full House, followed by a trial in the Senate requiring 2/3 (67 votes) to convict. Only one Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached; that was Samuel Chase in 1805 - and he was acquitted. Some lower federal judges have been convicted following impeachment or forced to resign following impeachment, but in all of those cases the reason was a crime like bribery or other financial corruption. Even if the Democrats recapture the House and even the Senate, I don't see it happening.

[BigmanPigman]

9. A justice can be arrested for a crime.

"Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) says that if Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed and "as soon as Democrats get gavels," they will "get to the bottom" of the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh."
Source: CNN
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/09/20/sen-sheldon-whitehouse-democrats-investigate-kavanaugh-lead-vpx.cnn

No one is above the law.

[MattP]

10. Clarance Thomas is the poster boy for conflicts of interest

He profits off his office and his wife runs a superpac

[Fullduplexxx]

11. You need 67 senators to agree to remove him

[bettyellen]

12. Takes like 2/3 or the senate, so nope

[elocs]

13. Impeachment with no possibility of conviction in the Senate

is like sex with no possibility of orgasm--ultimately unsatisfying except to say you "did it".
It's disheartening to read of people who still seem to think that impeachment removes a president.
I wonder if they're the same ones who are surprised that our presidents are elected by electoral votes and not popular votes.

Fantasies are nice as long as you have a grasp on reality. It seems like the use of the 25th Amendment is too often a fantasy of the Left that is not grounded in reality.
Election day in November of 2016 would have been a great time to have avoided this entire nightmare and if the Left does not that the winner of the presidential election will be either the Democratic candidate or the Republican one, and that's it, and if the Left cannot stand together then this nightmare can happen again.