how can congress impeach a supreme court justice?

Answer 1

Same as a president. Impeachment by simple majority of the House, Conviction by 2/3 of the Senate.

Answer 2

And you can't just impeach a Justice you disagree with, any more than you can impeach a President you disagree with.

I don't think a Justice has ever been successfully impeached, but I could be wrong...

Answer 3

The rules are the same as it is to impeach the President.

Answer 4

Impeachment proceedings may be commenced by a member of the House of Representatives on his or her own initiative by either presenting a listing of the charges under oath, or by placing a resolution in the hopper for referral to the appropriate committee. The impeachment process may be triggered by non-members, for example: when the Judicial Conference of the United States suggests a federal judge be impeached; a Special Prosecutor advises the House of information which he or she believes constitutes grounds for impeachment; by message from the President; or by a charge from a State or territorial legislature or grand jury; or by petition. The House then holds Committee hearing, votes on the grounds of impeachment, transfers matters to the full House. If the House votes to impeach, the Senate takes up the matter. If the Senate votes to convict, the Judge is removed from Office. Here are some of the more notable impeachements of federal judges...

Alcee Lamar Hastings (D) is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing the 23rd District of Florida. In 1989, Hastings was impeached from the bench by the U.S. House of Representatives for corruption and perjury. The Democratic-controlled Senate convicted Judge Hastings of accepting a $150,000 bribe in 1981 in exchange for a lenient sentence and committing numerous acts of perjury at his own trial. He became only the sixth Judge in the history of impeachment in the United States to be removed from office by the United States Senate.

John McCunn, federal judge in New York, impeached member of the infamous Tweed Ring, which he aided by naturalising new citizens to boost his election rolls. One one day alone, he naturalised over 2,000 new voters. However, when the scandal was uncovered, he was impeached and removed from office.

Walter Louis Nixon (born 1928 in Biloxi, Mississippi) was a United States federal judge who was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives and removed from office by the U.S. Senate in 1989, for committing perjury before a grand jury. Judge Nixon's offense stemmed from his grand jury testimony and statements to federal officers concerning his intervention in the state drug prosecution of Drew Fairchild, the son of Wiley Fairchild, a business partner of Judge Nixon's.

Harry Eugene Claiborne was a United States District Court judge who was impeached for tax evasion.

Halsted L. Ritter was a United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida who was impeached for ordering the payment of "exorbitant" legal fees with intent to embezzle, showing favouritism in bankruptcy cases, two charges of practising law whilst a Judge, two charges of tax evasion and bringing the judiciary into disrepute.

John Pickering served as Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court and as Judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire and was impeached on charges of drunkenness and unlawful rulings.

West Hughes Humphreys (5 August 1806 - 16 October 1882) was a United States District Court judge, and a judge of the Confederate States of America. The United States House of Representatives voted to impeach Humphreys on the following charges: Publicly calling for secession; Giving aid to an armed rebellion; Conspiring with Jefferson Davis; Serving as a Confederate Judge; Confiscating the property of Military Governor Andrew Johnson and Supreme Court Justice John Catron; And imprisoning a Union sympathiser with "intent to injure him".

Answer 5

I do not think you can unless they committed a heinous crime or felony.