{"id":4191,"date":"2005-05-13T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T13:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4191.html"},"modified":"2005-05-13T09:28:42","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T13:28:42","slug":"it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-elected-officials-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-elected-officials-is\/","title":{"rendered":"It depends on what the meaning of ‘elected officials’ is"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Weekly Standard’s Hugh Hewitt this week<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When the word “impeachment” was uttered in March and April as an option for dealing with renegade judges, the guardians of conventional wisdom were quick to denounce “ideologues,” who, in the words of the New York Times editorialists, “are trying to bully judges into following their political line.”<\/p>\n

Now the folks who raised the possibility of impeachment were not themselves elected officials<\/strong>. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay<\/a> (R-Texas):<\/p>\n

“Many of these judges begin to grow drunk on their own power. Why shouldn’t the people have a right to impeach these out-of-control judges?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rep. Tom Feeney<\/a> (R-Fla.):<\/p>\n

“To the extent [federal judges] deliberately ignore Congress’ admonishment, they are no longer engaging in ‘good behavior’ in the meaning of the Constitution and they may subject themselves to the ultimate remedy, which would be impeachment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Weekly Standard’s Hugh Hewitt this week: When the word “impeachment” was uttered in March and April as an option for dealing with renegade judges, the guardians of conventional wisdom were quick to denounce “ideologues,” who, in the words of the New York Times editorialists, “are trying to bully judges into following their political line.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}