@qotca@mastodon.social sure, asking tough questions for the voters they're trying to score political points with.
But hopefully plenty of these congresspeople realize that this is not only nonsense, but nonsense that would threaten the independence of the judiciary, if they were serious.
And if voters knew their civics well enough to realize just what clowns they're being with these stunts.
@hughrbeyer
@hughrbeyer keep in mind that the Supreme Court is constitutionally separated from congressionally established lower courts.
I think you're confusing those two different parts of the third branch.
@qotca@mastodon.social
@volkris Nope. Congress has oversight over the SC too, in a number of ways. Power to impeach means power to investigate misbehavior.
@hughrbeyer but this is it exactly: Congress has impeachment authority against individual justices, not against the Court as a whole.
It has power to impeach INSTEAD OF oversight over the Court.
If it wants to impeach Alito it can, and that is the proper remedy, responding to misbehavior while maintaining the independence of the other co-equal branch.
