1. There has to be majority approval for an indictment to impeach in the House, and "a two-thirds supermajority of the US Senate must convict for the judge or justice to lose their office."
2. The impeachment process for a US Supreme Court Justice has only happened once, but there have been none which have been removed.
3. Article II, Section 4 sets up the impeachment process in the Constitution.
4. The reasons for impeachment for the five most recent cases: falsifying income tax returns, receiving a $150,000 bribe to reduce the prison sentences for members of the mob and perjury and tampering of evidence, perjury, obstruction of justice for lying about sexual abuse of female employees, and accepting bribes from lawyers and "failing to recuse himself from cases involving people who allegedly bribed him."
5.The men who were impeached before did not have many supporters in the Senate and they had all clearly committed something illegal. Kavanaugh and Thomas both have a good number of supporters in the Senate and it is not clear that Kavanaugh "committed perjury in his statements about the judicial memos."
6. It's hard to tell which are "impeachable offenses" for a judge because not all misbehaviors or misdemeanors are illegal, some are just unforgivably bad, and it's really up to the Senate to decide if something is bad enough to warrant impeachment.
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