Even if they did, they would they would need a two-thirds’ supermajority of the Senate to remove a justice from office. That renders it unlikely Democrats could get the votes they’d need in the House.
Still, the party’s few remaining cooler heads understand that impeaching Kavanaugh is a lunatic idea, talk of which is already firing up Republicans. It is true that many House Democrats are zealots who would like to impeach Kavanaugh, and that the party would need only a simple majority in a Democrat-controlled House to file an article of impeachment or two. Democrats would probably prefer to leave those questions unanswered. Plus, pursuing impeachment would revive questions about Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s main accuser. They have no realistic chance of removing Kavanaugh from the bench. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who has strongly implied that impeachment would be on the table if Democrats take the lower chamber in the midterms - an electoral outcome that would make Nadler chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.Īre Democrats serious about this? I have my doubts. Is there any amount of fetching that goes too far for today’s Democrats? Shots across the bow about impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggest that we could soon find out.įor the past three weeks, the Senate ground to a halt as Kavanaugh was subjected to the most intense, most exhaustive judicial confirmation hearing in American history.
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