On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to use racial profiling in its militarized immigration raids across Los Angeles, halting an injunction that had barred officers from targeting Latinos based on ethnicity. The court did not explain the reason for its shadow docket order, which appeared to split 6–3 along ideological lines. In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the decision was “unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation’s constitutional guarantees,” opening the door to violent persecution of Latinos—including American citizens—by “masked agents with guns.” The majority did not respond to this extraordinary charge, perhaps because it is so obviously true.
Technically, Congress can impeach supreme court justices, but that depends on Congress being functional, which it hasn’t been for a long time.
impeachment in US governance has always been a joke and a partisan cudgel used or withheld on the whims of whoever happens to be in power, with some notable exceptions.
Case in point: the only Supreme Court Justice to be impeached was reinstated because the proceedings, instigated by then-president Jefferson, was very unambiguously politically motivated.
Never said it wasn’t a political process. I guess what I’m saying is that I’d like a more functional and representative congress that can keep rogue judges in check. And maybe term limits on supreme justices.