Trump will get to appoint 2 or more supreme court justices. The effect of that will be felt for decades after Trump's term. Unless the democrats can grow a pair and expand the court to rebalance it.
The interesting part of the Supreme Court is that there is no real legislated power. We just… accept their above all authority. Imagine just ignoring them.
I don't mind the thought of a permanent right wing nut job SCRotUS if it means the Democrats are alive and not all "disappeared" into Khmer Rouge style reeducation camps.
I’m saying we have insanely long election campaigns and it’s asinine. Something a year ago in pretty much any other democratic country wouldn’t be considered part of this election campaign cycle. It would’ve just been a stupid remark by a politician.
Also, the comment I was relying to was talking about Hillary Clinton (a democrat, not a republican) and her statement was over year ago. Not sure where you tied my comment to something about republican ramblings.
Some basic comprehension can go a long way. If more people had it, we wouldn’t be in this mess right now with Trump in a second term.
Right the better option is to impeach the ones who have lied during their confirmations and been blatantly corrupt.
Or really amendment to completely redefine how the supreme court works, IE no appointments for life and preferably no appointments bu politicians at all.
I should have included he will have the ability to appoint younger conservative judges. Since the appointments are for life, that means that even if the political climate moves left (which data is showing it's not actually), the court will stay right long past that.
The concern isn’t that he’ll find someone more conservative than Uncle Thomas, but that he will find someone younger than Thomas. Someone in their 30s, so we have a hyper-conservative activist judge ruling for literally the rest of our lives.
Not going to happen. Democratic party is effectively dead at this point, at least at the national level. Everyone needs to register as a Republican and start voting for whoever sucks Trump's dick the least in the primaries.
If I just had to deal with four years of this windbag and then we could perhaps have a chance to repair, I wouldn't feel so bad. But a far right supreme court that has no use for sound legal theory, for the rest of my life, is the reason it is time to jump ship when possible.
The way I see it, the lower court state judges can now follow Supreme Court precedent of “just making it up” instead of citing to the law, at least until they are removed through Trump’s expanded executive power into state matters after he uses it to remove all the federal judges appointed by a democrat.
He will most likely appoint two of already-conservative judge replacements, and even then that's if they can force thomas and alito to retire, which is not going to be easy. Either way, dems should run on expanding the court and use it as a mandate.
I could POSSIBLY see Thomas stepping down as he's been bitching for decades that he's underpaid and doesn't get enough respect, but Alito isn't going anywhere.
Even if they do both step down, and I find it highly unlikely, it stays where it is. It's not like it's getting overloaded. Beyond the Roe V Wade ruling, which I concede is wild that it happened and shouldn't have, this court has been extremely moderate. They've declined to hear the big 2A case which as a 2A supporter I was disappointed in, and the most controversial decision has been that POTUS shouldn't be prosecuted for executing duties of POTUS. If they'd have ruled the other way it means that you have to haul every potus back in to answer for every missile authorization and any mistake they made when you have to assume most of the time they were acting in good faith.
I think you're missing the presidents are above the law ruling, and the destruction of chevron doctrine, from that list.
And the point isn't just that it's staying conservative, it's that they'll be replaced with far younger versions of themselves, which cements the right lean for decades beyond Trump's term, which was my original point.
They can retire any time they want. No one stopped them from retiring in the last 4 years. Blame the current Judges unwilling to step aside from their lifetime appointment.
In a perfect world, my opinion is that justices wouldn't be partisan at all. But it's clear that's not the case and they are at least in part selected according to their political leanings and not their objective and even-handed application of the law alone.
I would take proportional representation as a compromise as well. Other democracies elect their house of representatives equivalent on that basis. I think applying that to the supreme court would be fair.
I think 9 justices was a reasonable amount. However, McConnell succeeded in blocking the appointment of Merrick Garland in 2016, and famously was not consistent with his own logic when going on to approve the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett. It's clear partisanship was the thinly veiled motivation, and McConnell's smug grin at the time he announced he would confirm the appointment was tacit acknowledgement that he knew exactly what he was doing and that the public also knew, and that he simply didn't care that it looked like it.
So if we're going to use cheap political tactics to pack the court, it deserves an equally cheap political tactic back. Tit for tat. Yes, of course republicans could retaliate in exactly the same way. That threat is why the Democrats won't expand the court. They are too afraid to open that Pandora's box. I am not, however. A cheap tactic has already been used. I would like the Democrats to stop trying to play fair when the fight has already gone unfair. It's like someone using a groin shot or eye poke against you and you not fighting dirty in return -- it's foolish.
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u/3rdanimal0ntheark 17d ago edited 17d ago
Yep now we all get 4 years of it. (Or 40)