West Virginia is the butt of a lot of jokes, some of them undeserved, but there is something happening there right now that could be a useful lesson for the GOP caucus in Congress. The West Virginia legislature has forced one member of the West Virginia Supreme Court from the bench and seems poised to send the rest packing.
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Though most of this derives from garden variety graft and corruption, it is significant that the legislature pulled on its big-boy pants and did what the state Constitution requires them to do without waiting on law enforcement to indict some of these people and force them from the bench that way. I doubt that the US Congress, faced with the same situation, could sack up and do this.
I think it is a mark of shame on the US Congress that it doesn’t use impeachment more often. Too often the talk gets bogged down on what exactly are “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
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Re: One State Impeaching whole State Supreme Court
Wow, don't see that sort of action too often.
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Re: One State Impeaching whole State Supreme Court
Not often enough, all the way up and down the line. IMHO.Brian D. wrote:Wow, don't see that sort of action too often.
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Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo - use in that order.
If you aren't part of the solution, then you obviously weren't properly dissolved.