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MaryMagdaline

(6,853 posts) Mon Sep 24, 2018, 03:41 PM Sep 2018

Are we really going to put someone on the Supreme Court who

Could, theoretically, be charged with a felony in the State of Maryland?

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Are we really going to put someone on the Supreme Court who (Original Post) MaryMagdaline Sep 2018 OP

To My Thinking, A Conviction Would Grease the Impeachment Rails.... The_Counsel Sep 2018 #1

Not wrong MaryMagdaline Sep 2018 #2

The_Counsel

(1,660 posts)

1. To My Thinking, A Conviction Would Grease the Impeachment Rails....

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Mon Sep 24, 2018, 03:43 PM

Sep 2018

...and it won't matter which court he sits on: SCOTUS, District Court, whatever.

Am I wrong?

MaryMagdaline

(6,853 posts)

2. Not wrong

Reply to MaryMagdaline (Original post)

Mon Sep 24, 2018, 03:47 PM

Sep 2018

And as horrible as impeachment would be for an appellate judge, it would be a permanent stain on our judiciary to have a SC justice under a cloud of impeachment or indictment.

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