Here's how Kavanaugh can be impeached...

[BigmanPigman]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/04/if-kavanaugh-is-confirmed-impeachment-could-follow-heres-how/

It’s as likely as the Democrats winning the House,” said Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham University School of Law.

“If they take back the House, I would be surprised if they don’t put forth impeachment proceedings in the next Congress,” Shugerman told The Washington Post. “At the moment,” according to the Cook Political Report, “Democrats are substantial favorites for House control.”

Even then, though, Shugerman called Kavanaugh’s removal “exceedingly unlikely,” given the supermajority threshold in the Senate. [Here are the House seats most likely to flip, according to election rating systems]

But there are 51 Republicans and 49 Democrats in the Senate, where Republicans maintain a 7-in-9 chance of keeping control, according to FiveThirtyEight’s calculations — leaving no window for the Democrats to gain a supermajority, even in a best-case scenario.

[guillaumeb]

1. Impeachment is a multi-stepprocess,

but to be successful it requires 67 Senators to vote for it after the House passes articles of impeachment.

[john657]

2. He can be impeached in the House,

but you're not going to get 67 Senators to convict and remove him from the SC.

[we can do it]

3. Thank you for remaining positive.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I have received over a dozen emails in the past two hours and they all are

encouraging calling, writing and protesting. A protest is currently underway and they will stay there until the vote tomorrow. The other PROTESTS are nationwide and in a planning stage their afternoon.

NARAL, INDIVISIBLE, MoveOn, ACLU, and a ton of other groups are getting together. Here is some info to pass on...

"NO JUSTICE NO SEAT" PROTESTS! Events planned...
https://act.weareultraviolet.org/event/no-justice-no-seat/search/?source=credo
NO JUSTICE, NO SEAT: MARCH TO #STOPKAVANAUGH
This is it! The Senate is planning to vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination on Saturday at. We say NO and this is our final opportunity to ensure every senator votes no too! We are marching to remind them that the Supreme Court is the People's Court.

Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court threatens to roll back women's rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, and more. And, it's not just that--we owe it to all the brave survivors of sexual violence who have come forward, like Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and Julie Swetnick, to ensure their stories were not shared in vain. We believe survivors. We will #StopKavanaugh

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🚨 Call your Senators this weekend—this could be our very last chance: 202-224-3121. 🚨
If you're in Washington, join the #PeoplesFilibuster to oppose Kavanaugh. Head over to the Capitol grounds between the Capitol and the Supreme Court. We’ll be there until the final vote on Saturday.

It is NOT OVER YET! RESISTANCE IS PATRIOTIC!

[angrychair]

4. A SCJ can be indicted

Arrested and go to jail like any other person...they have no special protections or immunities under the Constitution or law.

[Roland99]

11. Can that be done by the House alone?

[angrychair]

12. No, impeachment is the only power of the House

In this scenario.

That process works no different than it does for a President or any other office holder subject to impeachment.

The House can impeach him if Democrats have a majority but it requires a two thirds majority in the Senate to convict in order for that elected official to be removed from their office.

Democrats do not have the votes in the Senate for a conviction so he would stay a Justice. The only result would be to stir up more rage from the right and spend political capital better spent elsewhere.

Kavanaugh committed crimes by lying to Congress. By knowingly receiving stolen documents. If there is a willingness to indict him by a grand jury, he can be arrested and go on trial and go to jail like any normal person. If he is indicted and convicted in court, republicans will have no choice but to vote to impeach him.

[Slammer]

5. Impeach Kavanaugh?? Why?

Impeaching without removal does nothing except poison the impeachment process in the public's mind and make them think the whole impeachment thing was just a stunt done for political purposes.

We've got a president who we've got a good chance of both impeaching and removing.

So why would I want to do something which would make the public more cynical about the impeachment process?

Impeaching and removing Trump (and perhaps other related elected officials) accomplishes something tangible and political. But impeaching Kavanaugh leaves him on the court making decisions for the next 30 years just as if he'd never been impeached plus makes it more difficult politically to impeach and remove other people in the future.

I have a tough time seeing that as being a step forward.

[MFM008]

8. Because

Investigations the house will do In 2019
May show wrong doing on his part?
We cannot fear to use impeachment.
Thats why its there.

[pecosbob]

6. Impeachment in the Senate unlikely

but if Dems take the House, the House Judiciary Committee investigates Kavanaugh for lying to Congress multiple times as well as lying to the FBI and profers the evidence to the Department of Justice. Not impeachment...indictment. Both are felonies and prosecution would only require evidence and a willing DOJ. His status as a seated judge has no bearing on bringing an indictment.

[NeverTrumpDemocrat]

9. Save impeachment for Trump.

A Democratic House, a blockbuster Mueller report, there's a chance to get to 67 in the Senate and cut Trump's term short.

Asking essentially the same group of 90-plus senators who will also be around in the next Congress to vote to impeach Kavanaugh after they just voted to confirm him? Not going to happen. Sad but true.

[Quixote1818]

10. Kick