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A Supreme Court Justice saying/believing something this fundamentally incorrect about the expectations of their job should be disqualifying.
Alas…
It's been personal opinions for a while...
They're also not supposed to make laws either, but the whole "qualified immunity" thing where cops are allowed to do anything and not be held accountable was a court decision.
They only care about the rules when it agrees with what they want.
It's weird seeing the SC destroyed by SC judges in my lifetime. When I was a kid everyone had such a high opinion of them
When I was a kid everyone had such a high opinion of them
That depends on when you grew up. It seems from this data that the golden age of being a SCOTUS judge just was the late 80s, but any other time in recent history (prior or subsequently) the SCOTUS struggled to get even half the country to approve of them.
It's definitely way worse, now, though.
Edit: Bleh, typos.
I mean it's pretty clear to me. The constitution says that Congress writes all laws, and nothing about the courts is noted in powers congress does not have.
Then about the Supreme Court, it says that justices shall serve during "good behavior". Who could possibly define what that means legally besides congress?
Seems pretty clear that Congress could pass many different types of laws on SCOTUS that would be constitutional. Whether that is adding more justices, setting term limits, or creating and ethics standard.
Alito is a moron. The SC is to decide things between states and other high level topics. It's not an untouchable organization.
The power to determine what laws are or are not Constitutional, that the Supreme Court wields, is also not in the Constitution.
It comes from a precedent set by John Marshall.
We could show them what originalism really means by revoking that power and replacing it with the will of the people.
Makes you wonder what else Alito is “stunningly wrong” about.
nah it's everything
Each branch checks the other two and keeps them in balance. I thought we all learned this in high school? Or at the very least I'm sure Alito learned this, whether he cares to remember or not.
Wait, the Supreme Court doesn't just have carte blanche to do whatever the hell they want with no oversight?
Oh they absolutely do. They're throwing a screaming fit because everyone else wants to change it.
Not that precedent has mattered to the Highlander quickening "Supreme Court Justice".
Exactly what will Congress do but jackshit. Supreme Court will continue to be corrupt.
Then prove him wrong.
The court is no longer fit for purpose. Where we go now is anyone’s guess.
I am pretty fascinated (read: terrified) about what happens if Congress makes a law giving ethics requirements for the SCOTUS and they strike it down as unconstitutional.
Congress could amend the constitution. Hard to argue that that's unconstitutional.
That's waaaay harder, not easier, particularly in this environment.
If that happened I’d expect to see Biden go all in on packing the court. The gloves would be well and truly off at that point.
Which is where we should already be. It's where the republicans are with it. They've been packing the court since Bork got Borked, and went full gloves off during Obama's last year in office.
I propose a compromise nobody likes. The court gets ethics rules and Congress gets actual bribery and corruption investigations again.
In proper democracy all parts of the government are hold accountable to some other part of the government. This makes no part of the government to be above everyone else.
The system was built on checks-and-balances. Because the country didn’t like being under an absolute monarchy. But like cockroaches, they keep coming back.
Alito knows Congress isn't going to do shit.
The Federalists should be kicked int he head for what they’re trying to do. What a bunch of evil degenerates. I bet their weirdo cult orgies are the talk of the town tho.
The Supreme Court wants us to overturn Marbury, which like we can do but I don’t think conservatives will be happy about it
Senator Chris Murphy has dismissed claims by the supreme court justice, Samuel Alito, that the Senate has “no authority” to create a code of conduct for the court as “stunningly wrong”.
Murphy is wrong here though. Congress has no authority to regulate the conduct of SCOTUS. They only have the right to "yeet" a justice via impeachment. So they could pass one and then impeach for failure to follow, but they'd still have to follow the same procedure for impeachment that they nominally would have to do.