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Schumer Introduces 'No Kings Act' to Undo Supreme Court's Presidential Immunity Ruling.
(www.commondreams.org)
"nah we like kings"
-"Republicans"
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I think that's exactly the point though right?
Blocking this legislation will be an emphatic statement to that effect.
Which their base will eat up. Shit is weird right now.
Fuck their base. Take the middle of the electorate by shining a light on the weird old tyrant and you win the white house
At this point, maybe the best we can do is to ensure history judges them harshly.
"By the way, what's a republic?"
ThErE's A dIffErEnCE bETwEeN a RePuBlIC aNd a DeMoCrACy
The worst thing about conservatives is you never really know who's the idiotic parrot and who's the lying fascist because there's so much overlap in the diagram.
Benedict Arnold was a Republican.
I thought he was American?
It is nuts that this act even has to be put forward. These conservative frauds claim to look at the original intent of the constitution. Making the president above the law is literally the exact opposite to what we fought and died for with England. These justices are traitors.
President Joe Biden, a Democrat
In case we didn't know
By all means let people know which side is the anti-king side as much as possible.
For the outsiders looking at American politics but doesn't know even the basics of it, that could be beneficial. My Polish friend doesn't even know who Kamala Harris is nor has even heard about her.
Very positive news.
This was not just a trrmp decision and shouldn't be seen as one.
It is a way for conservatives to take control of the government directly and without recourse in the event they get back into power, no matter who their demagogue of the year is.
For the American government to regain any semblance of a representative democracy, presidential immunity needs to be struck down or illegalized.
[...] Schumer has written into the bill "jurisdiction stripping" measures that would remove the Supreme Court's authority to render the legislation unconstitutional, and allow only lower courts in the District of Columbia to handle a legal challenge. Such jurisdiction stripping has been seldom used in the past and would likely be highly controversial.
TIL Jurisdiction Stripping - Wild I thought that Sup Court always had that check on Congress.
IANAL, but to my understanding, SCOTUS is defined by the constitution and given certain powers and protections, to interpret the constitution, mediate disputes between the political branches, and certain duties given to its chief Justice. Congress is given broad powers to set the laws, which includes details of how branches are run, like creating departments in the Executive, and setting the number of Justices on SCOTUS.
If I understand Jurisdiction Stripping correctly, it's not preventing SCOTUS from eventually reviewing the case, but a law that says they don't get the first review of legal challenges. It could slow the process, at the very least.
Didn't they largely establish that power themselves through Marbury vs Madison in 1803?
That elevation / clarity of their authority wasn't a massive problem until the last 10 or so years when they started going off the deep-end.
Yeah Marbury v Madison found that congress can decide which cases SCOTUS reviews directly, vs where the authority of lower courts starts. But it's not in conflict with the other principle from Marbury v Madison, that SCOTUS has the power to review whether laws are constitutional or not. If I understand correctly, at least.
Before Trump, the worst issue the growing authority of the court caused was a shift from Congress making major policy changes, to SCOTUS. Congress changing that could be a change for the better in the long run.
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