Every judge appointed by the orange sandwich is illegitimate and needs to be removed
this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
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Unfortunately, that’s extremely unlikely. The last Supreme Court Justice to be impeached was Samuel Chase in 1805. He was acquitted and continued to serve until his death.
They remain seated until they choose to step down or die. The average Justice serves for 16 years, but have served for as long as 34 years. Trump fucked a generation in one term.
Can't Biden just expand it?
Yes, but the political blowback from both parties would likely not be worth it. Especially because Republicans would immediately add double the amount Biden would, and it would very likely quickly grow into full bore shenanigans.
We can't fight back ever because the other side might fight back even more. So let's just capituate now. Story of Democrats my entire life. At best.
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Expand what? The Supreme Court? That requires congressional action. It’s happened several times before.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIII-S1-8-3/ALDE_00013559/
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Same goes for the other ones to be nominated by a president who lost the vote for president (Alito and Roberts), and the other likely sex offender whose victim(s) never got a fair hearing or investigation, Clarence Brown.
Clarence Brown.
Clarence Thomas, as in uncle Tom.
That's the one, yeah. The one who said that there's no loss of dignity inherent to slavery.
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I’m as anti Trump as anyone, but I have some bad news for you - he was legitimately voted into office as the President and his appointments are therefore legitimate.
What McConnell did in blocking Obama’s appointment should be criminal. That BS needs to change.
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Thomas AND Alito are unquestionably in Donald Von Shitzinpantz's diaper.
Alito's response: "Ha ha, fuck you. I do what I want."
You can call for America's Mullahs to do things, but they won't do them because they don't have to.
In the olden days, if you didn't have a term limit and you were needed to step down from your post you were assassinated.
What a coward. The country can go fuck itself, so just own up to it you pussy. But no no, he's all "my wife did it." So not only can we go fuck ourselves, we're also rock stupid.
There's pretty much zero oversight for a supreme court justice, right? I'm kinda surprised he didn't just lynch a few brown and/or gay people in his front yard because doing so would have equal consequence - none.
In theory he can be impeached.
In practice, he can't be impeached.
While I get what you mean, they aren't immune to prosecution for acts outside of their role. He would hopefully still get arrested and charged for lynching people. (Hopefully)
Tried, convicted, appealed all the way up to his own court, conviction overturned.
I mean, his fellow judges might be corrupt enough to do so, but he couldn't sit on the judging panel for that.
Could he not? I'm genuinely interested, because I was under the impression that there wasn't anything that could force the justices to recuse themselves.
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They don't recuse themselves if their wife was part of an insurrection and there are no consequences for that.
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Oh please... Lol
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lol “creating an appearance of bias.”
the government has a dress code, but no ethics code.
fascinating.
This is a silly take. SCOTUS members have specific protection in the Constitution that needs to be dealt with. They have to be impeached. There's no other legal remedy. Republicans are a cult and have broken the government, just as the funding fathers feared.
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So based on how things have gone so far with the fascist in chief, we can expect no consequences at all, or that he will die of old age before any such consequences can be agreed upon. Sound about right?
Literally impossible right now. It'd take a 2/3ds senate majority to remove him.
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Yeah, like people in this country would listen to experts. That's basically admitting you don't know everything already.
You know we don't have to wait for the country to fall apart violently. There no shame in just calling it quits and everyone apply for sanctuary at their country of choice all at once.
Nah, no need to leave this land and its resources to the most evil.
Already on it.
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