so, to recap
one Supreme Court Justice accepted millions in gifts
another explicitly wants a Christian theocracy
their wives are insurrectionists
and they are both casting votes on a case that could declare Trump immune from prosecution
seems like a pretty strong case for court reform to me
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. The administration would rather install an insanely restrictive border policy instead of fighting for restraints on SCOTUS
political pragmatism at work. You could have had a baseline Immigration policy that included more judges to deal with the backlog and taken away a platform scare plank of the GOP. There are ZERO votes available from the GOP for judicial reform. NONE. Tell me, where are the votes in this Congress
the Immigration bill that came out of the Sen was a Compromise, crafted by both parties that was slanted towards the GOP to get their buy-in. It also included things for Dems, but hey lets ignore that because you obviously don't give a fuck. Enjoy the histrionic hypocrisy from the GOP to follow.
I'm not saying that I liked the compromise bill, but there were good things in it, The Afghan Interpreters exception, family member expansions, faster hearings and since it was bipartisan, it required no vote from Manchin or Sinema to pass. DJT scuttled it, it was not due to Dem perfidy.
context is what I am talking about. The GOP was holding up Ukraine aid because of their posturing about imm. reform. There were some Dem items in the bill, fast tracking asylum claims w/more judges, asylum for afghan interpreters, increase in immigration #'s. Most of it sucked but not all.
Per my pinned tweet, the problem is not the current occupants of this unaccountable power. It's the institution itself, and it needs to be abolished. Changing its shape (re-form) has no chance of fixing what's actually wrong here.
Our federal system has a replicable issue with collapsing into dictatorship. It’s had a real bad track record in Latin America, especially.
The U.S. State Department does not really on it as a model for nation building, either. The political science for why the U.S. hasn’t here is “norms.”
There are, however, institutional structures designed from the ground up to create and maintain impunity, and the Supreme Court is an excellent example of same.
“Look at me, look at me. I’m German. I’m from Germany. My heritage is German. You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you. And there will be a way — it doesn’t have to be now — but there will be a way they will know.”
Is she really saying what I think she’s saying? Is she an actual Nazi?
agreed, the GOP will never admit that those justices are corrupt or wrong or that any response is valid, after all, they worked very hard to get them there as a brake on our rampant liberalism. Same mofos that looked the other way during DJT Impeachment I and II. its a matter of political will
Another gift from the Electoral College: Supreme Court appointments during Bush and Trump terms.
What is so hard about one person one vote in a so-called democracy?
If there was a genuine, enforceable code of ethics for SCOTUS judges, Alito & Thomas would have been forced to resign by now. Can we please vote in more Democratic senators in sufficient numbers to make court reform achievable? November's elections would be a great place to start.
1\We need a "good Behaviour" law.
SCOTUS and fed. judges do not serve "for life." Article III says they serve "during good Behaviour."
Impeachment isn't specified as the only mechanism to remove them. It only applies to federal Officers under Article II. Judges are under Article III.
2\So, Congress should pass a law that lays out what constitutes bad "Behaviour," and then creates an independent entity to evaluate and recommend action. If the entity finds bad Behaviour, it recommends removal to Congress, and then the Senate must vote a simple majority (51) to remove.
3\But to top it off, Congress writes the law explicitly removing it from the appellate jurisdiction of SCOTUS under Article III, Sec. 2, under the Exceptions clause. This stops SCOTUS from declaring it unconstitutional.
Then we get to work.
Fingers crossed that the next Supreme Court photo ends with everyone getting electrocuted, like in the opening of King Ralph.
Except we don't choose the grandkids of nazis
Best part is that the Dems could expand Supreme Court, as well as impeach and kick out the problem children (alto, Thomas, Roberts, coney Barrett, Kavanagh). But they don't. Because it's not profitable.
They don’t because they can’t. They don’t control the House so they can’t pass a law and they couldn’t get enough Republicans to cross the aisle and convict in the senate.
If, by some miracle, they take the House this fall, then we’ll see if they take this seriously.
