I don't think treason requires any special qualifications for arrest and prosecution - except for Patriots qualified to execute justice.
Sorry, I meant if a supreme court justice is convicted of an offence, does he lose his office?
Would a parking ticket be sufficient? Or is it as here in UK, where a member of parliament who is convicted of an offence and is sentenced to a year or more loses his seat in parliament.
Or can he murder someone on broad daylight on 5th avenue, be convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but still retain his seat on the supreme court?
I don't know all the details of that. They can be impeached, just like the president. Of course that requires an honest (somewhat nonpartisan) House and Senate, which we don't currently have. As it stands right now, the justice would have to be hated by both sides of the isle, like some of the non controlled justices are. The Dems have no shame and would do all they can to protect justice Roberts. The RINOs wouldn't do anything useful - most would find an excuse to side with the Dems. Out of the rest, I doubt 10% of them have a backbone to speak of.
I suspect that in cases of treason, there are other options. A dead judge can't serve on the bench (any more than a dead person can vote). So I guess that depends on who is managing the corpse. In any case, if a judge were to be put to death for treason, impeachment wouldn't matter.
They allegedly managed the RGB corpse for about a year, so there is precedent!
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