Congress cannot remove a federal judge, except by impeachment, but Congress can determine jurisdiction that courts have. Congress can keep Alito getting his salary but Congress has the power to pass a law requiring Supreme Court justices rotate off the Supreme Court and onto a district Court in def8ned cycles, for example, after 6 years …
Congress cannot remove a federal judge, except by impeachment, but Congress can determine jurisdiction that courts have. Congress can keep Alito getting his salary but Congress has the power to pass a law requiring Supreme Court justices rotate off the Supreme Court and onto a district Court in def8ned cycles, for example, after 6 years on the Supreme Court she or he gets 6 years as a district judge, then 6 years as a circuit judge.
Congress cannot remove a federal judge, except by impeachment, but Congress can determine jurisdiction that courts have. Congress can keep Alito getting his salary but Congress has the power to pass a law requiring Supreme Court justices rotate off the Supreme Court and onto a district Court in def8ned cycles, for example, after 6 years on the Supreme Court she or he gets 6 years as a district judge, then 6 years as a circuit judge.