Blog Post 1.4: Judicial Impeachment

1. How much of the House must agree to impeach a judge? How much of the Senate must agree to remove a judge?
A majority of the House must approve an indictment to impeach, and a two-thirds majority of the Senate is required to convict for the justice to lose his position.

2. Has this process ever been used before for the Supreme Court?  How many times? 
A Supreme Court justice has been impeached before, but he wasn't removed. This occurred only once.

3. Where in the Constitution does it set up the impeachment process?
Article II, Section 4

4. What are the reasons for the impeachments of the 5 most recent judicial impeachments?
Harry Claiborne: falsifying income tax returns
Alcee Hastings: receiving a $150,000 bribe to reduce prison sentences for members of the mob
Walter Nixon: committed perjury 
Samuel Kent: obstructed justice and lied about his sexual abuse of female employees
Thomas Porteous: committed perjury

5. Why does the current makeup of the Senate make it unlikely that Supreme Court justices Kavanaugh or Thomas would be removed if impeached today?
Both of them have enthusiastic supporters in the Senate, and not enough Republicans would defect to make removal viable.

6. Why is it hard to tell which offenses are "impeachable offenses" for a justice?
It's hard to tell which offenses are sufficiently serious enough to justify impeachment. Thus, it's just whatever the House and Senate think it is.