After all, judges are not some elite or protected class for whom laws do not apply, nor should their criminal investigations be handled by the state bar or a judicial oversight commission — neither agency carries handcuffs.
Yet social media has been ablaze the last few days with cries to merely impeach the justices who recently made false representations to the Senate Judiciary Committee — about Roe v. Wade as settled law — in order to secure their U.S. Supreme Court appointments.
Impeachment is, of course, an acceptable secondary repercussion for such conduct, but even that severe professional sanction cannot replace jail time. Really, nothing can.