But even if he is removed from his judicial seat, he could, like a lot of other judges, go directly into private arbitration judging where, in what are basically secret tribunals with no right of appeal, he has complete authority to impose any sanctions he wants on parties in civil cases where arbitration is mandated.
Nancy Fishman, a project director with the Center for Court Innovation, said 85 percent of the teenagers who were processed through the organization's youth courts successfully completed their sanctions.
At the Staten Island youth court, nowhere is that more apparent than among the five teenagers who started as defendants, completed their sanctions and went on to be part of the court.
As for a sense of urgency, when do we ever see an incident arise on a Sunday and an investigation completed and sanctions levied by the Tuesday afternoon?
Creating a fulsome conversation with Russia that would include addressing its concerns over the sanctions regime, completing the Minsk agreements and stabilizing Ukraine, coordinating military operations against ISIS and finding a path to removing Assad over time and stabilizing Syria -- all this will be on the minds of NATO leaders.
Pending complete compliance, economic sanctions would continue.
But Mr Hussein, presumably holding out for a complete lifting of sanctions, refused to co-operate for five years.
What they want is direct and generous support for the Palestinians, and the complete lifting of sanctions against Iraq.
The Russians and the Chinese have stood in the way of more robust, more complete, more sweeping sanctions.
The Council on Friday voted for a stopgap 30-day extension to allow more time to consider a proposal by Britain and the United States for a complete overhaul of sanctions.
But while the United States gave tens of millions of dollars in aid throughout the 1980's to Cambodian refugees, it orchestrated a complete program of sanctions against Cambodia because it was under Vietnamese occupation.
