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[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 215 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fire her. She’s compromised and a Trump appointee that should have been recused.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago

How?

Wouldn’t she need to be to be impeached by the House? The house is controlled by the GOP. Even if a few republicans wanted to remove her, you would still need the GOP speaker to bring this to the floor.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

The prosecutor can request that she be removed from the case, but that’s extreme and, if fails, leaves him with a hostile judge that is also even more empowered than before.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 years ago

She's been extreme the whole time. Sometimes extreme measures are warranted.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Oh no! She'll make fascists more fascist!

[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

The prosecutor would have to ask for her removal, which would be difficult to accomplish for sure.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I'm sure he already has enough ammo to do so. That whole jury instruction thing was FUCKED.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 15 points 2 years ago

And the house GOP passed a law that lets them oust their own speaker with a minority vote, too.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That’s not true.

It still requires a simple majority to remove a speaker. In the case of Kevin McCarthy, the vote was 216 to 210, in favor of removal.

What is new is that the GOP is allowing anyone to bring a motion to vacate to the floor. You still need a majority vote to oust someone, but any yahoo can now force the house to drop everything and vote on removing the speaker.

That causes chaos and previously it required a higher bar to get a motion to vacate rolling.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 23 points 2 years ago

Ty for your correction

[-] androogee@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

Fire her*

*Out of a cannon into the vaccuum of space.

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It'd be nice if we had retention elections for these judges. The executive branch nominates judges and the legislative confirms them, but I'd like to see a choice on my ballot every so many years after a judge has been installed asking whether that judge should stay in office or not.

Funny enough, Wikipedia mentions how scholars are opposed to retention elections because the judiciary is supposed to be the most removed from public opinion and introducing that would lead to special interest groups swaying outcomes and generally breeding corruption. The squeeze is that we're already seeing corruption in courts anyways because of the very branches that install judges in the first place. All you have to do is look at this article or the Supreme Court.

Now the real question would be if Supreme Court justices should be up for retention. That's a rabbit hole I'm not sure what the consequences would lead to. Seems like term limits are still appropriate.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Couldn't the bar take her license away?

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