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First of all, according to the lawyer on the Rachel Maddow show it only takes 4 justices to bring it to a vote. It doesn't mean they don't have his back, we just don't know.
Second, they are very unpredictable and will vote for/against randomly, we just don't know. This is another wait and see, they could stall everything until after the election.
We need to talk about the corruption in the SCOTUS.
The greatest threat to democracy is an unjust judiciary. They need to be removed.
How to decide who is just?
Edit: ehm...I really was thinking about how this could be made fair without just punishing wrong doing.
As a fan of 'no power for noone' I'm very sceptical of anyone choosing someone who is just. So I'm not sure if this system can ever live up to its name, because it's always lacking behind thanks to the speed of social system and law change
I don't need to be able to tell you exactly how many grains of sand make a desert in order to tell you that the Sahara is a desert and I don't need to fully define "just" vs "unjust" to tell you that going on thousand dollar/day vacations with someone who has business before your court after and taking on cases where there is no injured party in order to overturn precedent is unjust
The work is moreso on the inverse, making sure it's not unjust. No matter how you slice it, someone's going to take issue on the outcome of each ruling.
What IS easy to quantify is the sheer number of legal scholars and domain experts sounding the alarm that many rulings are inconsistent with previously established law (and in many cases having profound negative consequences on the stability of our society), and that there are frequent conflicts of interest on a huge number of cases (cough cough Thomas).
And Roberts, he seems to be not mentioned as much, but he's just as corrupt.
A nepo bribe taker, a straight up bribe taker, a rapist and a Christian extremest walk into a bar. The bartender says, "You can't do your dirty business here SCOTUS."
I like to dream of a world in which just-ice would be served.
How about striking anyone who commits perjury? Or anyone who accepts bribes? Those seem like low hanging fruit where we should all be able to find common ground.
I agree man it feels like they are bitting into their own tail.
I mean maybe that judge that has already been proven that he took brides .
Idk about anything else from anyone else. But completely agree, this type of midset from people who are far from the situation only makes us as bad as republicans wanting to overtrow the gov.
Extremists usually don't fix much
Why don't we have a court that's above all the other ones. Some kind of absolute, all-powerful, mighty court that rules on all the other courts and decides if it's just.
We could call it: Court Supreme
What's the relationship to the Burrito Supreme? Does it come with sour cream?
Lawyers will need to roll a Burrito Supreme while making their arguments. Then it is eaten by the bailiff and points are deducted for each piece of food that is spilled.
Why? Because only the pure of heart can roll a good burrito.
Are you sure Judge Gen, Almighty Judge on High of All Beings Living and Dead for All Eternity, is not the more appropriate judge of this sort of thing?
This is your reminder that Marbury v Madison was an unprecedented usurpation of power by SCOTUS, to assign themselves the incredible role of final arbiter on all things dealing with all three branches of government, judicial, legislative, and executive. Nobody else comes CLOSE to that level of oversight.
We’ve gone along with it all, but it’s a constitutional question/crisis that’s been brewing for over 200 years. Almost came to the surface during reconstruction and FDR, but the Robert’s court has a growing judicial credibility gap along with far too much corruption.
A typical limit in the corporate world for gifts sits around $250. Ethical codes of conduct compel workers to flatly refuse gifts or favors, or risk their jobs. The Supremes have a demonstrated track record of accepting hugely generous gifts and services, and actively rebuff investigation or rebuke.
I heard Woodward and/or Bernstein saying that because it's on an expedited track, it actually takes five votes to bring the case before SCOTUS, not four.
Idk, this is the lawyer that said it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vance and
here is the interview: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-the-need-for-speed-jack-smith-adds-specialist-to-shortcut-trump-delay-tactic-199993925535
I'd never heard that, but ChatGPT agrees.