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Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America 'Can't Be Compromised' (www.rollingstone.com)

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[–] slickgoat 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Most of this kind of problem can be fixed with term limits - say 7 years. That way there would be a few changes of justices every presidential term.

That, and stop making the Supremes political appointees. The Australian parliament takes a shortlist of suitable candidates from a judicial review board. Our High Court is law-qualified and peer reviewed. The Government usually takes the first name off the recommended list. No particular political party has an advantage.

That's not to say that our governments love the high court. No government loves a hand brake. However, the people respect the bench, and the system works well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm sure in America there would be a massive power struggle over which party would have majority control over the judicial review board. Agree with term limits though.

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[–] Nightwingdragon 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That, and stop making the Supremes political appointees. The Australian parliament takes a shortlist of suitable candidates from a judicial review board. Our High Court is law-qualified and peer reviewed. The Government usually takes the first name off the recommended list. No particular political party has an advantage.

The only difference between this and the US system is that this is done by the US Senate and not a judicial review board. And it can't change without a constitutional amendment as it's the Constitution that makes the Supreme Court lifetime political appointees. But even if that were to happen, the only thing is that the power struggle around appointing judges would just shift from the US senate to whatever review board you set up to accomplish the exact same thing.

With that said, at least in the US, making Supreme Court appointees term-limited would likely just make the situation worse, not better. At least until the current supermajority, the Supreme Court at least had some public trust and appearance of impropriety. If you think it's bad now, Term-limiting the judges would just make them take the masks off even more and openly make whatever partisan decisions they need to make to get re-elected/re-appointed.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

This fucker understands that the fascist Republican will NOT compromise or ever get along with the majority of Americans. The fact he entertains their existence or bills at all means he's a fucking fascist.

[–] slurpinderpin 12 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck this traitor piece of shit

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Is this going to continue to be more evidence that there's a different justice system for the rich and powerful in the US than for everyone else?

[–] CharlesDarwin 9 points 2 weeks ago

They don't even give a thought to the optics at this point. They don't care about public sentiment and what most of us want, they'll do whatever they damned well please and asshats like Trollito will give you the metaphorical finger in the process.

That's ALL Republicans, by the way. This is why I've been saying for more than a decade now that not ONE of them should be allowed into office.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

The way Alito and his wife feel about defending america, I feel about defending queer people. The way Alito and his wife feel about queer people, I feel about supreme court judges

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Supreme count set in when? I wanna grill some seitan ribs and sell them for John Brown breakfast club donations in the justices' secret nepobaby room maybe light up a joint too. No poo poo on the walls please thou but I'm definitely gonna steal things 👺

[–] wolfeh 7 points 2 weeks ago

Traitor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Stupid question. I don't doubt the record is authentic, but how do we talk about 'recordings' in the age of rampant deepfake ai? There's no trustworthy method of validating these claims, right?

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[–] FuglyDuck 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Of course we can’t compromise.

Which kinda puts alito on the wrong side of history, doesn’t. Since he’s the one compromising the shit out of the courts…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

And there will be no consequences.

[–] Delonix 5 points 2 weeks ago

Alito seems so unhinged, guy looks cooked.

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