so how do we deal with all the horrible judges that russia installed dear leader is putting in?

[blimablam]

is there a way to get rid of them?

[louis-t]

1. Impeachment.

[fallout87]

11. Of the judges?

Not going to happen. They are in for life.

[louis-t]

12. They can be impeached for criminal or ethical violations.

They can be removed from office.

http://www.answers.com/Q/Who_can_impeach_and_remove_federal_judges_and_Supreme_Court_justices

[fallout87]

15. And the odds of that happening?

[Irish_Dem]

2. A lot of the damage being done now will take a long time to repair. nt

[unblock]

3. in practice, we'll be stuck with them for a long time.

hopefully, we will be the ones doing the installing for decades to come, but we really can only get rid of them on a case-by-case basis if and when they do something impeachable.

[underthematrix]

4. Yes impeachment in 2019

[maxsolomon]

5. All we have to do is take complete control of the Congress.

I would suggest >60 Democratic Senators.

Then you have to find rationales for Impeachment.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Impeachment for incompetence.

They can't perpetually rely on their law clerks who do the research and write the damned opinions even if their law review graduates from Harvard and Yale Law School.

[maxrandb]

7. Take back the house and cut their damn salaries to

$1 per year. Cut off funding for their staff and offices. If that doesn't get them to resign, impeach. Make them respond to so many requests for documents and subpoenas to appear before Congressional committees that they don't get a second of peace.

McConnell has already shown us how norms and rules don't fucking apply. Dems better remember that

[gladium et scutum]

9. Can Not Do That

Excerpt of Article III section 1 of the Constitution of the United States:
"The judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated
times, receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office."

[Fresh_Start]

10. so we can't cut their salary but we can refuse to fund any office staff, etc?

I think that if they find out they need to be their own serfs...that might drive some of them out of office

[Hortensis]

8. Don't you mean Charles Koch's agents? The Heritage

Society is able to provide lists for all positions to be filled.

[MineralMan]

13. Not an easy way.

This is one of the consequences that so many people warned about in 2016. Those warnings were ignored by far too many people, who seemed to think not voting for the Democratic candidate would send some kind of message. We are receiving that message right now, it seems, and it says, "Watch your back! Trump is appointing right-wingers to the federal courts, just like we told you he would."

Consequences. They occur if you're not paying attention.

[MineralMan]

14. Only fifteen federal judges have ever been impeached in US history.

Historical impeachment of judges. Fifteen federal judges have been impeached. Of those fifteen: eight were convicted by the Senate, four were acquitted by the Senate, and three resigned before an outcome at trial.
Impeachment of federal judges - Ballotpedia

https://ballotpedia.org/Impeachment_of_federal_judges