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[–] [email protected] 256 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (32 children)

You're wrong Alito, Congress can definitely make rules and laws to regulate you. They have the explicit authority to do that.

"The court can be trusted to self-regulate"

That's bullshit. With your unethical bribes being accepted and the bullshit rulings you've been making have proven you're an incompetent corrupt court.

[–] Methylman 159 points 1 year ago (23 children)

It's right on the courts' info page

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/about

Although the Constitution establishes the Supreme Court, it permits Congress to decide how to organize it. Congress first exercised this power in the Judiciary Act of 1789. This Act created a Supreme Court with six justices.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty much all authority the Supreme Court has is power it has given itself. It's long overdue being reigned in.

[–] Methylman 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed, I posted this on another thread about the court

Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Smith Adams, September 11, 1804, "but the opinion [Marbury v Madison] which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature & executive also in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

we were worried that republicans were gonna make the president a dictator appointed exclusively by republicans, and while we were fighting against that they made scotus a dictator appointed exclusively by republicans

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