The disgraceful Supreme Court justice should be held accountable for his actions but probably won’t.
Because of politics.
- no chance of removing him
- Democrats just impeached Trump twice.
- expanding the court makes more sense
And you know that will never happen because the Democrats don’t have a spine.
@ProfThadBach In all honesty though, why would we expect any better when our only major parties are far-right fascists and right-of-center liberals? That’s two right-wing parties controlling everything.
Okay but you know expanding the court is a nuclear option. Like the current place we are in is there are 6 “conservative” judges and 3 “liberal” ones. So you would need to introduce 4 new supreme court justices at minimum to upset the current balance. While you are sort of ignoring the Senate has 49 republicans, 48 dems, and 3 “independents”. So who again confirms supreme court justices? Oh yeah senate… This is also ignoring you would have to make a new act to set the number of supreme court justices to 13 and who has majority control over house again? So lets fast forward to some future where dems have unquestionable control over the legislative branch of government where they can’t be filibustered down. What exactly stops conservatives from just increasing that number once again to 18 or so when they have control?
Money.
🎶Corruption 🎶… jazz hands
Cause he’s doing his job well and accurately, according to the text of the constitution itself?
You know that thing the left likes to pretend doesn’t exist?
Could you explain to me how taking bribes from people he is presiding over is doing his job “well and accurately”? Founding fathers would have kicked him out a long time ago
“The left” aka the rest of the developed world, but OK boss. Ignore the cartoonishly obvious corruption. I guess justices can just accept huge gifts from whoever, business before the court or not. Because it’s not specifically called out in the constitution it’s all good! Ethics is canceled, we can all go home. Cool, cool.
As usual, the conservative chimes in with a comment utterly ignorant of the issues at hand.
The constitution has nothing to do with this; it’s about ethics violations. Educate yourself.
Article II section 4 of the constitution
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
That seems like a part of the constitution he isn’t upholding
Maybe if you read the constitution you’d understand what’s going on.
@TomTheGeek - interesting perspective. Do you care to support it beyond your initial comment? You’ve got a lot of opposition.
Speaking of not thinking the Constitution exists:
Trump should not be able to run for president based on the disqualification clause of the 14th amendment because of the insurrection.
Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
Other things of note: 'In early 2016, Trump again had gutting the First Amendment in view, this time wanting to “open up the libel laws” to infringe on the freedom of the press. That summer, he vowed to protect articles of the Constitution that do not exist. In 2017, he said constitutional checks and balances that required him to share power with Congress are a “very rough” and “archaic” system, which is “a really bad thing for the country.” That fall, he said asserting Fifth Amendment rights is proof of guilt. In 2018, he floated unilaterally ending birthright citizenship in violation of the 14th Amendment.
In 2019, Trump repeatedly claimed Article II of the Constitution gave him “the right to do whatever I want.” The same year, he argued he should be able to abuse national emergency declarations to expand his own power beyond constitutional boundaries because Democrats would do the same thing if given the chance. In 2020, he reportedly expressed interest in declaring martial law though the constitutional preconditions for it, per Ex parte Milligan (1866), had not been met. And just last month, he called for executing drug dealers after a two-hour trial modeled on communist China’s justice system, a blatant rejection of constitutional due process. By the standard of many of his Republican supporters, even Trump’s record on the Second Amendment falls short."
So, where are your examples of the left pretending the Constitution doesn’t exist?
I’m removing this comment because you’ve been reported for trolling.
Be aware that every member of the mod team has brought up your name and the word “ban” in the same sentence, especially for your behavior in other magazines.
I defended you and said no - let’s not judge their actions for other parts of the Fediverse. That’s how you become r/pyongyang. But when your behavior in this magazine earns reports from other members of the community, we will act on them.
You have a choice right now: you are in full control of your actions to participate in this community by not antagonizing or trolling. Nobody is asking you for ideological agreement, just that you don’t spend all your free energy here trying to get a reaction out of others.
I hope you make the right choice.
Because right-wingers are EXTREMELY, overwhelmingly, almost unanimously corrupt. They would never punish one of their own, no matter heinous, unethical, or repugnant the crime. They know that if they do not all stick together lock-step no matter what, their illegitimately stolen power will fall apart like used wet toiletpaper.
left wingers are any better? I got one for you, the state is neither, it has both parties in it and only two parties. it is corrupt, rub two brain cells to together to arrive at a conclusion outside of the left/right framework. I know it is hard but work on it.
like why are you even make this left right when most of us are the bottom?
Because one of the parties is better for lifting people up. Like, immeasurably better.
I won’t even say which one I think it is. You can decide for yourself.
show me these people who have been lifted up?
statistics point towards largely more poor people, worse health, more debt, less home ownership. who was lifted up and when?
In other words: you don’t know what “left winger” means.
Hint: The U.S. Democratic Party is not left wing.
True, but this is a leftist community, so they cannot see the forest for the trees
Have you made any points that are actually debatable or are you just shit posting and crying about the community (and reality) leaning left?
Centrist Democratic Politician: we want to exploit labor and centralize weath and power, but we want people to like us so we’ll do some incrementally good things things to keep folks satisfied
Centrist Republican Politician: we want to exploit labor and centralize weath and power, and fuck you. If you don’t support us rapist minorities are going to rape you to death, or you might have to see people who aren’t like you in public.
Centrist Democratic Politician: we want to exploit labor and centralize weath and power,
Then how come 100% of them voted against Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump and the GOP’s gigantic tax cuts for billionaires in 2017? Vague claims mean nothing. Only real things matter.
left wingers are any better?
Yeah.
Remember when Al Franken resigned because someone said they were bother by his actions decades ago? Remember how there were bipartisan investigations into Benghazi and Hillary emails? Or when Bill Clinton let an independent special prosecutor attempt to find evidence of corruption?
How about how Lindsey Graham said that he would never support confirming a supreme court justice before a presidential election and then did that? Or how many of Trump’s administration have went to jail?
This “both sides are just as bad” number doesn’t work when one side is activity lieing, curtailing freedoms and attempting literal coups, while the other side has obeyed due process and law the overwhelming majority of the time.
it is corrupt, rub two brain cells to together to arrive at a conclusion outside of the left/right framework.
Weird that 1/2 of this framework, the D group, always votes against gigantic tax cuts for the rich, and the R group always votes for the exact opposite. Both sides are the same opposite of each other.
like why are you even make this left right when most of us are the bottom?
Because if you are at the bottom, you would be an extreme fool to vote for the party that consistently gives gigantic tax cuts to billionaires.
reality check… Trump’s tax cuts passed.
Biden could not get student loans done… Obama could not get health done properly…
Trump spend trillions on covid “bail outs” Biden came in did and the same…
What did you get from Democrats having both house and presidency, limp dick student loan reform that added USD 1T to on the genY and GenZ?
The cope here is too strong today lol
