Only We the People now can defeat the fascists and their corrupt, pseudo-"Christian"/Corporate owned SCOTUS cronies. We can no longer defeat them via the any "Law" nor legal means; because, thanks to Putin/Trump/GOP corruption of SCOTUS, LAW NO LONGER EXISTS IN THE USA. We're LAWLESS /ON OUR OWN.
We need to end the US Senate. Whether they are blue or red, giving a state with 500K people the same representation as a state with 50M people, is incompatible with democracy.
We need to replace it with randomly selected juries.
Easy for a court of people in gated communities with clean water to say that clean water laws are against the Constitution because of something some dead guy said in 1832.
I have considered something along those lines. Not for day-to-day matters, but for impeachments. Rather than the Senate, which is highly conflicted, we could empanel a jury composed of former judges, congressmen, Presidents and Governors, randomly selected but with at least some from both parties.
Votes cast by any of the compromised justices should be tossed following current conflict of interest & recusal guidelines established by the fed judiciary. Include decisions influenced by gifts from parties with cases before the court before & AFTER the decision.
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We need a super group of men and women who take their commitment to upholding the law more seriously than trading a woman’s right to choose for a luxury RV.
You mean just like SCOTUS has to recuse themselves from conflict of issue cases and Congress is supposed to work on behalf of the people? I'm sorry. I'm more of an OCCUPY the Capitol kind of girl. We need to be out in the streets not on our phones...
There really does need to be a way to over rule scotus. Check and balances. It's a really dumb system to assume scotus is too smart to get anything wrong.
There should be a way for the Super Supreme Court to be US, god damn it. They literally work for us! Everything is the opposite of the way it should be.
Oh my the temptations. I'm afraid that's going to take a miracle. Still I would like at least four tops that are elected by popular vote by the people.
We just need to impeach the Alito and Thomas -corrupt mongrels- charge and jail them.
Replace them with Justices who will obey the Constitution, the new laws must have age limits and a very strong code of ethics.
Any federal judge should be able to nominate and prosecute a peer for Congressional impeachment based on abuse of power, ethical lapses, or partisan and Constitutionally unmoored and unprecedented opinions (like Roberts decision overturning the Voting Rights Act)...
...Any case ruling and decision that was the basis (evidence) for a successful impeachment of the authoring judge or justice is simultaneously overturned (fitting end to both Dobbs and Alito)...a man can dream...
...If after hearing the prosecution and defense, the panel unanimously convicts the plaintiff Judge of misconduct (ethical or malpractice), the plaintiff is nominated to Congress for removal by impeachment…starting in the House Judiciary Committee...with only a simple majority required to convict...
...If a majority of the panel approves the prosecution, a trial is set in front of another panel of randomly chosen sitting federal judges. If after hearing the prosecution and defense, the panel unanimously convicts the plaintiff Judge of misconduct (ethical or malpractice)...
...After challenging a written decision (either a majority opinion or a minority dissent), a Fed Judge nominates his/her prosecution again to a panel of randomly chosen sitting federal judges...
How do folks interpret the good behaviour requirement of Article III Section 1? Because if it's intended the way I read it, a mandamus filing asking for the removal of Thomas and Alito would be fascinating.
If ever there's a time when we have a Democrat Senate majority and a Republican president, we must never allow any appointment to the Supreme Court because that's what they did.
We do have a giant flaw in the Constitution. There is no recourse if SCOTUS acts in an unconstitutional manner by taking powers unto itself that it doesn’t have and acts as a mini legislature, subordinating the legislature and executive to its whims. 1/2
2/2 If we continue to honor the idea that everything SCOTUS does is sacrosanct, nothing stops it from simply declaring everything it doesn’t like unconstitutional, even if law and precedent say otherwise. Once everything is inside the MAGA constitutional lockbox, Congress might as well go home.
You're not far off I've thought of this for a while and they could be elected. It would be hard for legislators to vote against a thing like establishing a super supreme court that is elected. In a country based on Democracy we need more elected officials not less
We need term limits and an enforced ethics code. State courts have much stronger professional ethics codes for judges with financial reporting every year to avoid even the appearance of impropriety
Maybe if the media would be fucking honest with voters then Republicans would be motivated to do their jobs and actually care about ethics. Why do we let them get away with this shit?
Only We the People now can defeat the fascists and their corrupt, pseudo-"Christian"/Corporate owned SCOTUS cronies. We can no longer defeat them via the any "Law" nor legal means; because, thanks to Putin/Trump/GOP corruption of SCOTUS, LAW NO LONGER EXISTS IN THE USA. We're LAWLESS /ON OUR OWN.
True. The Supreme Court was made an allowance for in the US Constitution but how it operates and effectively how corruption is curtailed is dictated by Congress. It was never meant to have this much power and is completely out of control.
I agree. The problem is corruption in the existing court, not a need for a new one to clean up the mess. Let's make sure the SCOTUS follows the same ethics rules that bind all the other courts.
We need to #ScrapePoliticiansClean when they take public office by taking away all their stocks, totally monitoring their bank accounts, and setting aside all their businesses while they are in office. They can get all of their stuff back once they leave their public office.
This would keep their interests clean and prevent them from accepting bribes during that time in office. This would also be extremely useful with the Supreme Court.
Indeed which is what John Oliver confirms as well. Most cases when there are ethics rules for courts they explicitly exclude the SC. They also recently ruled that a bribe is not illegal if it happens after the fact. Just have to call it a tip. Now wonder why Trump wants no taxes on tips?
Easy fix - Congress can limit the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction to disputes specifically set forth in Article III, Section 2, paragraph 2. That would bring the court’s corruption to a screeching halt.
There used to be talk about finding/creating a mechanism for the entire federal bench to be able to review SC, include the executive branch, and then be able to override, but I haven’t heard about it since the late 90s (00s?). Can’t seem to find anything on it anymore
It’s been decades since I read about it, but the gist was that there could be some annual review conference and where things were off, they could be submitted to the executive branch and then left alone or reversed. Sounded like a good thing, but that would be a constitutional amendment situation.
True. Personally, I wanted the first thing the 2021 congress did to be a SC reform with a provision that there had to be a SC Justice for each district, so you’d have to create a district if you wanted to expand the court, but we could have had ourselves 4 more justices.
I have no idea why this court even remains seated. Aside from these three perjurers we now have Thomas and Alito to contend with? There HAS TO BE A RECOURSE for this level of impropriety!! Seriously—WTF!?
Not if they’re all republicans. Some of them committed perjury against the senators promising the roe v wade is a settled law and won’t touch it and yet, they got away with it. Justice is dead 😑🇺🇸
As of January 20th, all US laws are irrelevant until the guy with 34 criminal convictions is in prison. Americans should refuse to pay their federal taxes. Let Harland Crow and his billionaires buddies try funding everyone in the entire federal government including the Supreme Court.
Everything else is mere penciled ramblings of madmen.
Gentlemen's agreements. Until one side breaks the social contract. Those make peaceful revolution imposable, makes violent revolution inevitable.
To some degree yes, nevertheless those laws are subject to a court case and a constitutional amendment while highly difficult is a guarantee in reversing bad court decisions. So the legislature is caught between a metaphorical rock and a hard place.
Sort of. If a law is ruled unconstitutional, Congress can write a new version of the law, tweaking it so it doesn't raise the same constitutional issues. But they can't simply pass a law to declare something constitutional.
"We must find a way to take an appeal from the Supreme Court to the Constitution itself. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution—not over it. In our Courts we want a government of laws and not of men."
We needed Dickie Durban to have done his job. He coulda used subpoena power to drag insurrectionist judges like Canon, Thomas, Alito, Roberts into hearings; held feet to fire, showcase corruption, force change. He and other Dem leaders sent stern letters; they should have been throwing haymakers.
Let’s just tear down the entire system and start fresh. I think a coven of female leaders that are put into place based on how much good they’ve done for others is a nice start. 🫶🏻
mAga is in the process of tearing it down now , making it the way they want it. They have spent decades twisting founder intent and convincing half of the public it should go back to white male property owners who are the only ones with rights. Oh, and for good measure…it is god’s will.
You need some SCOTUS ethics rules with actual teeth. Time to eat the leopards faces.. And term limits to shuffle them out before they can do too much damage.
How about we teach the public about how the Senate can impeach corrupt Supreme Court Justices, and create a media that talks about how we do it every day. Let’s Make Jan 6 Benghazi Again, starting with Ginni Thomas’s Bible Bribe.
Building these narratives into a story that everyone has heard and wants to see fixed, will create the groundswell to get people elected and policies defined for them to pass into law. Defined consequences for illegal and corrupt activities will get people fired up for Justice VERY delayed.
We have that. It's called the electorate.
Sadly, its training has been allowed to deteriorate
to where ̶P̶u̶t̶i̶n̶ ̶ Elmo can lead it around by its nose.
We should amend the constitution and have all Supreme Court justices be chosen from a bipartisan panel of 10 from each party. Also this panel can enforce a code of ethics.
Sadly all we have is Dick Durbin and the judicial oversight committee. Who can’t even be bothered to make corrupt justices come before that committee for a hearing.
Durbin is gone in 2026.
Illinoisans should recruit State Senator Mike Simmons to run for Durbin’s seat.
I’m one of those “make them VOTE and let’s see who they are” people.
If he only got 53 votes - we could lobby the 47 who were wrong. Then take another vote. Repeat until we get 60.
Could it have worked that way if Schumer wanted it to?
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Here’s a short Substack write up on that subject…
https://substack.com/@stephaniechurch44/note/p-153469561?r=4naqww&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Easy for a court of people in gated communities with clean water to say that clean water laws are against the Constitution because of something some dead guy said in 1832.
A lot harder when you have to drink that water
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Folks call your reps
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Use it to fight for our future.
Call your Congress folk
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DO SOMETHING! please 🥺
Folks call your reps
We have our voice, use it.
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If everyone on Bluesky called their reps today, we will get real change.
We have our voice, use it!
Use it to fight for our future.
Call your Congress folk
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They have to report back to Congress the number of constituents calling in support diff issues.
Every bit helps aquatron 😊
Period!!!!
Replace them with Justices who will obey the Constitution, the new laws must have age limits and a very strong code of ethics.
Sorry, I’ll show myself out.
* There is no higher Court to OVERRULE them
* There is no enforceable ethics code to BIND them
* They have LIFETIME appointments
> Elections have CONSEQUENCES!
Perhaps a good solid RICO case?
You know, like the founding fathers intended.
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The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution
UNDER this Constitution
Marbury v Madison placed the Court OVER the Constitution
NO law passed through Congress and signed into law is unConstutitional
Overturn MvM
Everything else is mere penciled ramblings of madmen.
Gentlemen's agreements. Until one side breaks the social contract. Those make peaceful revolution imposable, makes violent revolution inevitable.
Over rulled.
Please say yes.
I know that’s a big ask these days, but one can hope
FDR Fireside Chat - March 9th, 1937
Got it.
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DO SOMETHING! please 🥺
Folks call your reps
We have our voice, use it.
Calling> posting
If everyone on Bluesky called their reps today, we will get real change.
We have our voice, use it!
Use it to fight for our future.
Call your Congress folk
It takes 3 mins to leave a message.
https://5calls.org/
https://youtu.be/fF22jp2VBJg?si=ocbyEdXy-D5XXBcB
Sadly, its training has been allowed to deteriorate
to where ̶P̶u̶t̶i̶n̶ ̶ Elmo can lead it around by its nose.
Durbin is gone in 2026.
Illinoisans should recruit State Senator Mike Simmons to run for Durbin’s seat.
If he only got 53 votes - we could lobby the 47 who were wrong. Then take another vote. Repeat until we get 60.
Could it have worked that way if Schumer wanted it to?