HOW TO REMOVE a federal judge: “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, and the revolutionary state constitutions, the Article demonstrates that at the Founding, good-behavior tenure and impeachment had only the most tenuous of relationships.”

Hmm. Even if that’s true, I think that 200 years of pretty consistent understanding to the contrary should count for something. (Via Tom Smith).