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All the chief justice did, I thought modestly and appropriately, was to point out the unbroken tradition in American history that we don’t impeach judges for decisions that are unpopular or that we may think are wrong or right, whatever it may be, wrong, controversial. …
We have a remedy for correcting decisions that we may think are wrong. But that process is not impeachment, it’s an appeal.
— Chief U.S. Circuit Judge William Pryor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in comments noted by Reuters that he gave during a recent appearance on Yale Law School professor Akhil Amar’s podcast “Amarica’s Constitution,” where he reiterated his support for Chief Justice John Roberts, who weighed in on President Donald Trump’s calls to impeach D.C.’s Chief District Judge Jeb Boasberg, by saying, “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
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