How Reckless Judicial Impeachments Threaten Rule Of Law

By Jan van Zyl Smit (August 31, 2018, 2:44 PM EDT) -- What happens when legislators try to remove an entire supreme court bench? This is not a question about dictatorships or sham democracies. On Aug. 7, the West Virginia House of Delegates voted to impeach all four sitting justices of the state Supreme Court on allegations including extravagant office decoration and furniture expenses, overpayment of senior status judges and misuse of vehicles....

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