Take it where it leads. If nothing is there, fine. If criminal activity is evident, (and I believe it is), then prosecute.

And yes, Bybee needs to be removed from the bench.

If Bybee can skirt and flirt the law for the Bush Adm. He can do it for his wealthy supportors.

This packs courts with more extreme bias toward those not worthy.
The judicial class warfare………….

But one has to wonder how many more “Bybees” have been planted on the federal bench by the Bush administration, the most corrupt and criminal administration in American history, similar conservative judges to Bybee with the same tortured judicial temperament.

My apologies for not spelling out up front that I am not a lawyer, nor have I ever had any legal training. I do read, however, and reading the Constitution, it doesn’t sound like a judge can be “un-confirmed” once he’s on the bench.

And I’m not “buying into a complete red herring.” If anything, I’m the one who might be offering it for sale. But since the vast majority of people posting here are not lawyers, either (are you?), I would say my opinion is just as valid as any other non-lawyer’s opinion.

And even if I knew how to look up legal decisions, I am doubtful that this issue has come up very often, but I admit I do not know.

Can you provide me with solid proof that I am wrong? I will gladly change my opinion if presented with facts that show the premises of my conclusions were flawed.

Better take a real close look at the last eight years. A really fine grained analysis of the last eight years, all out on the table. These are very bad boys indeed.

These bushies, including bybee, that have burrowed in must be surgically removed before they activate and spread.

Unless you’ve got some links to specific constitutional and/or judicial limits on the impeachment power, I think you’re buying into a complete red herring. Judge Bybee should be disbarred for abusing his status as a member of the bar, clearly he was twisting the law not attempting anything like a good-faith interpretation of it. If the man is unfit to serve as a lawyer, he is at least as unfit to serve as a judge. THe fact that he was confirmed isn’t a retroactive cart-blanche absolution for his past misdeeds, especially those that may well be criminal. What he did directly reflects his ability to uphold the rule of law. If he can’t be impeached for this, then the system is beyond broken.

But I do not believe he can be impeached for writing these memos before he became a judge.

I don’t like it, either, and I want to see him removed from the bench, but we have to do this legally and properly.

“The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.”

As much as I want to see him removed from the federal bench, I believe that can only be done for something he did after he became a judge. If there was any question about his fitness to be a judge, he should never have been confirmed. The US Senate is to blame for putting him on the bench without understanding his judicial philosophy.

In order to impeach Judge Bybee, he has to make a ruling that proves his unfitness to be a judge. I do not believe he can be impeached for something he did before he became a judge. I know that we couldn’t prove anything about these memos because Bush illegally classified them, but if any doubts lingered, the Senate should never have overwhelmingly confirmed him. I’m sorry, and I don’t like it, either, but we do have to follow the Constitution, and the Constitution says we can’t impeach him for doing disqualifying things after we already said he was qualified.

On a secondary note, once again, the Senate, excepting 10 Senators, has sherked their oversight responsibility in approving Bybee’s nomination. There will need to be incredible pressure placed on them to impeach, so if you really want to see this happen, get ready to make your Senators bow to the will of the people.