• Moyer1666@lemmy.ml
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    You’re wrong Alito, Congress can definitely make rules and laws to regulate you. They have the explicit authority to do that.

    “The court can be trusted to self-regulate”

    That’s bullshit. With your unethical bribes being accepted and the bullshit rulings you’ve been making have proven you’re an incompetent corrupt court.

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        Pretty much all authority the Supreme Court has is power it has given itself. It’s long overdue being reigned in.

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          Indeed, I posted this on another thread about the court

          Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Smith Adams, September 11, 1804, “but the opinion [Marbury v Madison] which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature & executive also in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch.”

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            we were worried that republicans were gonna make the president a dictator appointed exclusively by republicans, and while we were fighting against that they made scotus a dictator appointed exclusively by republicans

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        I mean, these people haven’t even read the laws they’re supposed to be deciding cases on. You expect him to read his own website too? The privilege.

        /s

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          The problem is they can also decide that isn’t what that means, it’s hilariously stupid to be able to do it but they can.

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            corrupt scotus justices: we’re strict constitutionalists. if it says it in the constitution, it’s the law. if it doesn’t say it in the constitution, it’s not the law

            the constitution: …well-organized militia…

            corrupt scotus justices: no not like that

            the constitution: …equal protection under the law…

            corrupt scotus justices: no not like that

            the constitution: …against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause…

            corrupt scotus justices: no not like that

            the constitution: slavery is legal

            corrupt scotus justices: that’s more what we were thinking…

      • That had to do with size of the court.

        Constitution says it’s a lifetime appointment, though.

        Can have all the rules you want, which the justices are free to ignore because the Constitution says it’s a lifetime seat.

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          You just have to be creative. Pass a law saying holding a Supreme Court seat for more than 20 years is a capital crime.

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            That would be unconstitutional and ruled that way, too. The law cannot take away a thing guaranteed by the Constitution (the lifetime appointment).

            There would need to be an impeachment or amendment. Or court-packing.

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              It would be evil and unethical, yes, but not unconstitutional. They would still be justices right up until their execution, so it’s still a lifetime appointment.

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                It could still run up against tue 8th Amendment, more specifically the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

                Edit to add: being convicted of a capital crime does not guarantee a death sentence. Anything less than death still bumps into a Constitutional issue.

                Coming and going, there’s a likely Constituional challenge. An amendment would almost be easier.

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                  death penalty isn’t cruel or unusual. scotus said so themselves. they even said a punishment could be cruel as long as it isn’t unusual.