I really appreciate that this article repeatedly drives home the simple fact that this court is corrupt.
This isn’t simply an ideological dispute. Roberts, Alito and Thomas, most notably, are corrupt traitors who are actively and repeatedly violating their oaths of office and every ethical standard they’re sworn to uphold. They’ve gone so far in ruling contrary to law, precedent and even the Constitution that at this point they don’t even bother trying to explain, much less justify, their rulings. They just issue them.
Personally, I think they are the most egregiously destructive criminals in this administration - they, even more than Trump and his handlers and lackeys and sycophants, are responsible for the fact that the United States is accelerating into autocracy, because their job is to ensure that the federal government stays within the bounds of existing law and of the Constitution, and they have willfully refused to do that job.
Every single brazenly illegal and destructive thing the Trump regime is doing it’s doing because the supreme court has refused to honor its commitment to truth and the rule of law, and that in turn because the conservative justices are entirely corrupt and compromised.
And exactly as noted, something must be done. If those corrupt traitors are allowed to continue operating as they have, then anything anyone who wants to save this country from autocracy might do will be for naught, because those corrupt traitors will just arbitrarily rule against them and in favor of the autocrats, entirely regardless of law, precedent or the Constitution. That cannot last - it must be stopped.
The court should be expanded to 13 seats.
Yeah, it should, but instead of legislating the number as 13 until a future law changes it, the number of seats should be tied to the number of Federal Court Circuits. That’s how it used to be, with one Justice overseeing each circuit. They stopped at 9 Justices, but there are 13 circuits right now.
They should be appointed on a regular basis (e.g., every two years) instead of having a fixed number of seats and waiting for vacancies.
As long as you’ve got at least six (the original number), the exact number of justices isn’t critical.
The entire framework of power needs to be reviewed and amendments created to deal with the corrupting influence of money in politics. We should not be where we are.
Government needs a complete overhaul
That will never happen. The current system is designed to keep the status quo for rich and corporate interests. They will never work against the monied interests that support them. If they do, corporate money will just fund their opponents from both sides of the political spectrum.
Citizens United and the bast amount of money available to corporations has eroded the power of governments to actually govern.
Biden wouldn’t do it, because his handling of the Anita Hill investigation is why Clarence got his seat in the first place
When Biden lamented about “the good ole days” of politics, the Republicans liked him because he did shit like push their anti-american SC picks thru.
When he was no longer useful to Republicans and their masters, he was discarded and legitimately never understood he’s been taken advantage of his entire career, or he was in on it the whole time and still laughing at Dem voters behind closed doors.
Either Biden was/is an idiot, or he’s been working against his voters intentionally for generations.
Biden wouldn’t do it, because
his handling of the Anita Hill investigation is why Clarence got his seat in the first placeit’s not within the powers of the president to change the number of judges, it’s set by federal statute by Congress.Fixed it for you. All any president can do about it is pressure Congress. And Biden never had a Senate majority that would ever consider either expanding the court or impeaching the corrupt justices (Manchin and Sinema, for starters).
Look at the Biden crime bill.
1986 or 1994?
Both were incredibly harmful to Americans, especially the poor and not white.
Yes.
Should have, could have, would have. But didn’t and it’s probably too late.
If they ever get the chance to rectify the problem, I won’t be surprised if the again pass it up in the name of decorum.
While I would be in favor of reforming the Court in a variety of ways, if this is meant to be a practical suggestion then any discussion would have to be limited to actions that wouldn’t require a constitutional amendment. There is simply no way you will get 2/3 majorities in both houses and 3/4 of the states to all agree on something which is going to shift the balance of power. It would actually be easier to impeach the bad actors on the court, and even that’s basically impossible without an unbelievably massive shift in the political landscape.
We can potentially change the number of justices, and we can probably make some meaningful changes to the laws and procedures surrounding the court, but getting rid of lifetime appointments isn’t going to happen.
While I agree with the principle and spirit, I feel like the Dems should be fighting to preserve and restore the voting rights that are being shredded wholesale before pursuing unicorn fantasies like this.
It’s the Supreme Court that is shredding the voting rights to begin with, starting from when they allowed Citizens United.
People don’t rush to their polling places for “we’ll undo some of the damage” as a message. They need well spoken people to sell a lasting solution.
Narrator: They won’t.
A live look at Democrats championing it:
Democrats are fine with it
Democrats won’t do anything to change it, they stay in power with dysfunction.
