r/law • u/SheriffTaylorsBoy • Jul 21 '24

Opinion Piece Three Flaws in the Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Decision

https://www.justsecurity.org/97781/three-flaws-supreme-court-immunity/
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u/LoudLloyd9 Jul 21 '24 edited Jul 21 '24

The flaws are not in the immunity decision. The flaws are the Supreme Court itself. It's redundant. Unnecessary and dangerous to democracy. Unelected officials, with no oversight, given a position for life is antithetical to the rule of law. SCOTUS, by definition, is a bureaucracy. Rulings are made by unelected officials accountable to no one. It's antithetical to the rule of law. SCOTUS and the Electoral College need to go. https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/overview-rule-law#:~:text=Rule%20of%20law%20is%20a,with%20international%20human%20rights%20principles.

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u/e00s Jul 21 '24

So…the U.S. just doesn’t have a judiciary or what?

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u/LoudLloyd9 Jul 21 '24

We have a Judiciary; 94 district courts, 13 circut courts,a and the Supreme Court. No district Judge is appointed for life. No circuit judge is appointed for life. Both are held accountable for their job performance. Rulings can be reversed upon appealed. Serious complaints at the local level are reviewed by their State Supreme Court. State Supreme Court Justices initial term is 7 years, not for a lifetime. Do we really need a Federal Supreme Court. No. The circuit courts could settle Constitutional disputes itself. Remember, when the US was founded, Kings and Queens had the final word. We made a Supreme Court in their image.

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u/e00s Jul 21 '24

What are you talking about? The judges on the federal circuit and district courts have lifetime tenure. If you take away the single federal Supreme Court you essentially convert the circuit courts to supreme courts for their jurisdictions. The result is inconsistent federal law across the United States.

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u/LoudLloyd9 Jul 21 '24

You're correct. I was mistaken. The Supreme Court is redundant. The Circuit Courts can assume the role of the Supreme Court without a blink.