Dishonorable
<p>After all, judges are not some elite or protected class for whom laws do not apply, nor should their criminal investigations be handled by the state bar or a judicial oversight commission — neither agency carries handcuffs.</p>
<p>Yet social media has been ablaze the last few days with cries to merely <em>impeach</em> the justices who recently made <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">false representations</a> to the Senate Judiciary Committee — about Roe v. Wade as settled law — in order to secure their U.S. Supreme Court appointments.</p>
<p>Impeachment is, of course, an acceptable <em>secondary</em> <em>repercussion</em> for such conduct, but even that severe professional sanction cannot replace jail time. <strong>Really, nothing can</strong>.</p>
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