Rep. Peter DeFazio Investigating Impeachment For Chief Justice John Roberts

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Rep. Peter DeFazio Investigating Impeachment For Chief Justice John Roberts

With Democrats increasingly outraged over the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision that allowed unlimited corporate spending in elections -- a change conservatives have been more successful at taking advantage of -- a Democratic congressman is raising the prospect of impeaching the Supreme Court's chief justice over the issue.

"I mean, the Supreme Court has done a tremendous disservice to the United States of America," Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. "They have done more to undermine our democracy with their Citizens United decision than all of the Republican operatives in the world in this campaign. They've opened the floodgates, and personally, I'm investigating articles of impeachment against Justice Roberts for perjuring during his Senate hearings, where he said he wouldn't be a judicial activist, and he wouldn't overturn precedents."

In his 2005 confirmation hearings, Roberts famously said, "Judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ball game to see the umpire."

Rep. Peter DeFazio Investigating Impeachment For Chief Justice John Roberts

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Impeach the 9th Circuit

 

[Baruch Menachem]

He represents both Eugene and Corvallis, and all the south coast.

He is a loon with standards.

In this case he is playing to the bleachers.

 

[Revere]

Plessey and Dred Scot were precedents.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Rep. Peter DeFazio Investigating Impeachment For Chief Justice John Roberts

With Democrats increasingly outraged over the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision that allowed unlimited corporate spending in elections -- a change conservatives have been more successful at taking advantage of -- a Democratic congressman is raising the prospect of impeaching the Supreme Court's chief justice over the issue.

"I mean, the Supreme Court has done a tremendous disservice to the United States of America," Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. "They have done more to undermine our democracy with their Citizens United decision than all of the Republican operatives in the world in this campaign. They've opened the floodgates, and personally, I'm investigating articles of impeachment against Justice Roberts for perjuring during his Senate hearings, where he said he wouldn't be a judicial activist, and he wouldn't overturn precedents."

In his 2005 confirmation hearings, Roberts famously said, "Judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ball game to see the umpire."

Rep. Peter DeFazio Investigating Impeachment For Chief Justice John Roberts

Nothing will come of this. It's a road that nobody on either side of the aisle will ever want to go down. In DeFazio's case, he starts down this road, then the Republicans can easily come back at him with impeachment of Breyer and Ginsburg for citing foreign law in some of their rulings. Then, of course, there is the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which gets overturned 75% of the time.

I agree with Baruch that DeFazio is just electioneering. He has a tougher than normal opponent this year and he is covering his ass with his far left base.