Question about the judges McConnell/Trump are installing...

[OneGrassRoot]

One can only assume these judges in most cases are extreme right-wingers, corrupt and/or not qualified.

Once Trump and McConnell are gone, what can be done to undo this deep damage to our judicial system? Can these judges go through a second, more legitimate confirmation process with threat of impeachment? Do you see such a process happening?

It's like cancer cells metastasizing. We get the tumor out -- Trump and GOP -- but these cells are there, growing in their malignancy.

Dems pushing through a lot of their judicial picks when able doesn't seem like the answer; the cancer cells will still be there. This isn't merely conservative vs liberal. There is deep pathology with everything connected to Trump and McConnell.

[exboyfil]

1. Only if they do something egregios

And given it takes 67 Senate voted we are talking something really big. The horse has already left the barn. In fact it is probably unlikely that a Dem President will seat many judges the next four years.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. Great question...

I was thinking the same. Lifetime appointments should be stopped the chance of either side packing the courts does not seem right.

[Raven123]

3. I don't think we can do anything. Time to reassess how and for how long we appoint them.

[Claritie Pixie]

6. Exposure, calling them out. That's all we can do.

[BSdetect]

4. Appoint extra judges and ignore / bypass them?

[NewJeffCT]

9. I think additional judges is the most likely workable solution

I don't think it would fly at the SCOTUS level, but at the District Court and Court of Appeals level, maybe

[StarfishSaver]

5. No. We can't "reconfirm" them

The only recourse would be if they committed an impeachable offense, in which case, they could be impeached and removed. But trying to undo the damage and remake the judiciary by removing judges who were properly nominated and confirmed would be a dangerous, slippery slope.

[OneGrassRoot]

7. Understood...

Yet don't you think it's likely that they will commit impeachable offenses?

[StarfishSaver]

10. Not necessarily

Most of these judges are incompetent or rank ideologues, but not necessarily corrupt. And incompetence and batshish ideology are not an impeachable offenses.

[OneGrassRoot]

12. Thanks. n/t

[NewJeffCT]

8. Unless they do something that is impeachable

you can't really do anything about an individual federal judge once appointed.

The solution would be to expand the federal judiciary - appoint maybe 3 more judges to each district court and another judge to each court of appeals. Sell it as reducing the judicial workload instead of just packing the courts because the GOP and the media are already going to call it court packing

[OneGrassRoot]

11. Thank you. n/t