What to do about a corrupt, authoritarian Supreme Court?

[dutch508]

Marius25 (2,207 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217860367

What to do about a corrupt, authoritarian Supreme Court?

As you may have heard, Justice Roberts is refusing to come to Congress to address the ethics/legal scandals around his court.

And his letter basically said they're not beholden to ethics or laws, nor is it appropriate for the Supreme Court to answer to Congress because of separation of powers.

So effectively the Chief Justice has declared the Court above the law.

We'll never have enough votes to impeach and remove, and I don't see the DoJ doing anything about it.

It feels pretty hopeless to hold the Court accountable short of states just refusing to recognize their authority. That would be a Constitutional crisis though.

 

Star Member Stinky The Clown (66,289 posts)

1. Pack the court before we chance losing the Senate

That would also require DiFi to resign.

 

Star Member C_U_L8R (43,743 posts)

2. I wonder how they like their appropriations?

Seems to get the executive and legislative branches together... does the judicial branch think it's better than the rest?

onenote (39,742 posts)

6. And how would that work?

Article III, Section 1. of the Constitution. The salaries of Supreme Court Justices can't be reduced while they're in office.


So, you'd reduce the funds available to keep the court operating (although the Justices would be paid in full). And that might result in the Court not being able to decide cases. For example, if the Fifth Circuit upholds the district court order and there is another request for a stay pending Supreme Court review, maybe the Court doesn't have the resources to address that case and leaves the fifth circuit order standing?

Pretty sure that's not what you're going for. But it might be what you'd get.

 

J_William_Ryan (1,530 posts)

5. "What to do about a corrupt, authoritarian Supreme Court?"

Resort to the political process, abandon the judicial.

Win elections; win control of states; win and retain control of Congress and the WH.

Make a compelling case to the American people; make the Supreme Court irrelevant.

 

WarGamer (8,529 posts)

7. So you're in favor of Congress having greater power over SCOTUS?

Always think of the "shoe on the other foot"...

If the GOP takes the Senate in 24, which they might... are you in favor of Ted Cruz and Rand Paul abusing their power vs the Left leaning SCOTUS Judges?

orthoclad (1,113 posts)

12. Expand it.

ASAP.

What happened to that case before the court giving state legislatures the right to determine elections?

Star Member Mike Niendorff (3,346 posts)

13. 28 USC 1

Expand the Court.

This requires retaking the House in 2024, expanding the Senate majority so that the filibuster can be eliminated (ie: get rid of the Manchin/Sinema roadblock), and obviously holding the White House.

I think that all of these are well within reach NOW, not even taking into account the effect of the indictments that are about to rain down on the historically corrupt Republican Party.

But assuming this can he done, the first order of business in 2025 should be changing 28 USC 1 to set the number of SCOTUS Justices to 13. Then fill those seats immediately and begin to fix the damage the current Packed Court has wrought.

MDN

Star Member Fiendish Thingy (12,559 posts)

14. Expand the court to 21 seats

And make any individual Justice next to irrelevant.

Probably can’t get it done until 2029, when President Whitmer will sign the legislation expanding the court and appointing 12 new progressive justices in her first 100 days.

 

elocs (21,775 posts)

18. Hindsight is 20/20, but a good thing to have done would be for the Left

to have turned out to vote for Hillary in '16 like she would lose, which she did. I wonder if we've learned our lesson about voting and to do it like it was our duty?
Control of SCOTUS has long been important for Republicans and they played the long game concerning it while too many of us on the Left became complacent. Next year's election will be my 14th presidential election and I have always voted for the Democratic Party nominee even when I didn't particularly like the person because they were always better than the Republican and the winner of any election will be either the Democrat or the Republican.

 

[ADsOutburst]

What's their solution to authoritarianism? More authoritarianism in the form of packing the courts! Go figure.

[jukin]

Well if you have an IQ of under 80, write barely intelligible fables, steal, and are thoroughly indoctrinated then you post stupid stories, wild fantasies, and lies on a site of misfit stupid jackoffs called DUmocrat Underground.

[FlaGator]

I'm pretty sure I had to take and American Government class in high school. I guess these morons spent the class in the courtyard smoking dope.

[CollectivismMustDie]

...short of states just refusing to recognize their authority

.

Oh, like NY state is doing on guns, ignoring the ruling that covers concealed carry and some other things?

The minute lefty starts screaming about 'authoritarian' this and that, it's a given that it's what they've already done and/or intend to do.

They're sad little people, if I'm being charitable, who should never be allowed anywhere near power.

[jukin]

They're sad little people, if I'm being charitable, who should never be allowed anywhere near power

The best argument for late term abortion... say in the 80th to 292nd trimester.

[DefiantSix]

The best argument for late term abortion... say in the 80th to 292nd trimester.

Almost makes you want to root for them getting their preferred form of gub'mint - temporarily anyway. "Useful idiots" become "useless eaters" and are shuttled off to mass graves PDQ in such socialist-run shitholes.

Almost...