End life time appointments, now. Pack the court, now. Pray some of those fuckers keel over, quick.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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There's enough to impeach Kavanaugh and Clarence if the Dems had the presidency and congress.
Unless the senate itself is dramatically changed, Dems will never have the 2/3 majority needed to remove anyone, and I’m not holding my breath for the GOP to put country before party anytime soon.
The Democratic Party, as it exists today, is structurally incapable of what your suggesting. Their entire power structure is based on suppressing the left, and NOT activating / mobilizing their base for real political or societal changes towards leftist goals, or projects.
Judicial review isn’t even in the Constitution. The Supreme Court gave itself that power in Marbury v. Madison.
Originalism ain't in the constitution as well.
So they are doing what they were hired to do
If only we could have predicted this back in 2015!
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Of course they are. It’s their job.
Seems silly to characterize one of the key functions of the court (deciding what case to take) as rigging. I'm not saying that I don't find this court a reactionary shit pile, just that they're acting exactly as you'd expect them to
If they do it in bad faith to achieve a certain political outcome, I don't see why it would be unreasonable to call it rigging.