The Yale Law Journal

Saikrishna Prakash

Forum

Removing Federal Judges Without Impeachment

Saikrishna Prakash & Steven D. Smith

 

Response

(Mis)Understanding Good-Behavior Tenure

Saikrishna Prakash & Steven D. Smith

116 Yale L.J. 159 (2006)

Article

How To Remove a Federal Judge

Saikrishna Prakash & Steven D. Smith

116 Yale L.J. 72 (2006)

Most everyone assumes that impeachment is the only means of removing federal judges and that the Constitution's grant of good-behavior tenure is an implicit reference to impeachment. This Article challenges that conventional wisdom. Using evidence from England, the colonies, a…