How ‘bout that.

Repubs simply do not care. And the American people will continue to vote them in. So there won’t be any consequences.

So we might as well all give up and live with the corruption. Is that your conclusion?

Nothing short of his death will get him off the bench. I am not surprised that the other judges are upset with his appointment and I believe there will be more speaking out.

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... an option? This psychotic ghoul is evil; anyone with a pulse can see that. But the GOP's corruption is absolute; nothing can be done... for now.

The only option. We can only hope.

He's there till 2055-2060.

Plus, some Republicans would have to cross over and vote for it. Consequently, you are absolutely right.

... and if enough Republicans have a Come-To-Jesus moment and realize that they're going to be even more monumentally fucked if they don't do everything in their power to bring Trump and his evil minions down. Because it's going to happen, one way or another, and the longer they cling to their twisted fantasies, the worse it'll be for them when the hammer does come down,and it's gonna come down HARD.

And a 2/3 majority in the Senate. I'd be shocked if it ever happened.

America's disgust with Trump, and Republicans in general, is is a wave growing at an exponential rate. Ya can't turn the tide with a teaspoon, and, when it comes down to it, that's really all these evil fucks have got. 2026 is gonna be... interesting. They'll cheat; they always do, but the numbers will overwhelm them.
I have to go feed my unicorn.

Your unicorn may meet my mermaid some day.

Even if it does, he won't get convicted in the Senate. That's 67 votes.

That even I believe that the vast majority of people (decent people in America) will reach the point where enough is enough. So, when that day happens (and I believe it will come sooner rather than later) there will be hell to pay for the GOP. And, I do believe that before 2030 we will see several impeachments at all levels. That is my belief and hope.

The sooner the better.

Impeachment is a pipe dream.

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How does one combat Trump’s corruption? Bove has a lifetime appointment. The only ways he’ll leave the bench are resignation, death or impeachment. I don’t think we can expect any of those any time soon with Bove.

So what do we do?

There are 6 (D)-appointed (Obama & Biden) and now 7 (R)-appointed (Shrub & 45) with 1 vacancy remaining. So assuming the current (D)s manage to hang on (and the vacancy is filled by 45 - although (D)s need to do what they can to block), then it would essentially still be a near-equally divided, but tilt (R), Circuit - (8 (R) - 6 (D) if all vacancies are filled).

Bove is just 1 of 14 and he is certainly not the "Chief" (the Chief being one of the Shrub judges).

https://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/

...until he's 1 of 9.

But we are forced to watch as mobsters take power. 1930's Germany revisited. And tens of millions of "Americans" are cheering it on.

but the reality is they are going to do whatever they want, and the GOP and the SCOTUS will uphold it.

The paragraphs quoted from the article are missing the key portion that justifies the headline:

that mandates backfiring on republicans.

it also might be related to their inability to think things through.

In thinking things through, you assess the potential outcomes, both positive and negative. If I do (a), what good results might happen? If I do (b), what negative impacts might happen? They only think of the benefit; I rarely if ever have them see a negative outcome to their action.

A good example right now is trump's big idea to redistrict Texas, which has resulted in California taking action.

The first Trump administration saw a flood of retirements because we had just seen eight strong years of Obama (the first two with a sizable Democratic majority in the Senate) that ended with a Republican senate blocking appointments. Blue judges expected Hillary to win and Democrats to retake the senate... yet it didn't happen. Many of them just tried to hold on for four more years... and thus there were a flood of openings for Biden to fill... just as there had been a flood of Republicans to replace when Trump suprisingly won.

That well has been tapped out. It isn't a surprise because there isn't much of a backlog of red judges looking to retire. The good news is that there shouldn't be any blue judges left absent health issues except the handful who retracted their retirement when Trump won.

The next driver will be next Spring if it looks like we have a chance of retaking the Senate (I don't think they fear that right now). Absent that, they'll next guess what chances republicans have in 2028. But I doubt there are many (if any) who will hold out if it looks like a blue senate and a progressive president.

Que that one person who says they can't do that because it is illegal.

What happens when HIS orders and rulings are disobeyed?
And aren't there subtle ways that some of his staff attorneys and clerks can mess up the smooth functioning of his office? His personal and professional life must be an open book from now on. Gather evidence of his ongoing corruption. Always associate his name with judicial impeachment. Leak interesting stories about him to the press. Make him wish he was never appointed to the bench.

As it stands, the reason Bove acted like Trump's client is because over time, Trump has learned that the courts have no enforcement mechanisms against him, including the US Supreme Court.
That federal courts can't enforce contempt rulings means that they can't even bother to rule contempt from the bench because they know the courts will be publicly revealed as toothless under current rule of law structure.
Trump has learned that US courts' inability to enforce rulings stands as the achilles heel of our entire federal judicial system.
Add to that the fact that federal judges' lives and their families lives are now threatened, and "here come da judge" like Bove to run what amount to kangaroo courts.

that the American governmental construction operated on "the honor system".

I.e., when one team "wins" and the other "loses", the losing team sucks it up and says "good game" and the winning team doesn't prance around gloating at the losers but will "shake hands" and say "good game".

So when a judge says - "no", then you accept that or appeal. And when the highest court says "no", that is that and you accept it (and perhaps try to find a way to change things).

However 45 and his criminal cabal have completely blown up the "honor system" and this type of sentiment has actually been evolving over time, even at the lowest levels of the sports world (including youth sports), where literal fights break out. It often invokes the old proverb of "spare the rod, spoil the child".

Now the reality is that privatized power has thrown 'the honor system' to the wind.

The reality now is that unenforced "rule of law" has also been thrown to the wind.

The reality is that now that 'the honor system' is optional, lawless business and dark money grip this government, and soon this country. Bove reveals that bought judges exist to do the bidding of privatizers, using some rule of law veneer for the rest of us, while using the 'honor among thieves' system that has always existed in mafia run countries. We have a protection racket run government. Do what the privatizers say or we the people humans (for whom the near-unenforceable constitution was written) lose liberty, life, and property.

by his colleagues? I thought the legal profession had tough ethical standards.

In THEORY, he could be impeached. But the sniveling, Trump worshipping Republicans in the Senate who approved his appointment would never vote to remove him, even IF the sniveling Trump worshipping Republicans in the Senate were to actually impeach him.

I rea.ly wonder what might happen if Schlump were to kick the bucket before this term is over. If he was suddenly no longer around to threaten them with being primaries or worse, would some of them maybe regret some of the things they've done on his behalf and want to clean up some of the resulting messes for legacy reasons and/or for the sake of not getting massacred by their constituents in the next election? It would have to be s lot of them, and they'd have to be willing to get busy pretty fast, but things could get interesting for a while.

It's all speculation, of course, and I wouldn't even be thinking about it if he wasn't looking so strikingly unwell these days. But speculation can be fun and even therapeutic, as long as one remembers not to get one's hopes up!