Legal institutions can jail people for life, but vigilantes can’t. Kidnapping a CEO and ethically keeping him alive in a private blacksite for life (food, entertainment, medical care (ironically)) is cost prohibitive and also much harder to pull off.
You might want to read more about how the Constitution is interpreted in practice.
Did you escape your asterisks in *younger*? Should be younger and now my brain is melting.
And who enforces that law?
Hopefully the statute of limitations is more than 2 years.
There used to be a law against using federal funds to spread political propaganda domestically, but it was abolished some time in the past few years.
Hey, I heard we control both houses now. Hmm.
I don’t know if you’re joking, but the Supreme Court are fucking assholes and always have been, because they’re people, and people all suck at the end of the day.
Classic example: Ruth Bader Ginsburg originally made a name for herself establishing gender equality in the Supreme Court by bringing a case of discrimination against white men.
If you ever get into a trouble with the cops, always be polite as possible, because if you’re rude, judge and jury will fuck you over out of spite even if your rights have been clearly violated.
So yes, if you want to build case law holding cops accountable for their action, start with black cops violating the rights of white citizens, and if you want to overturn Citizens United, try a muslim.
The Supreme Court goes outside the strict text of the Consitution all the time… Saying, “I don’t like how the Supreme Court is voting, so I’m going to appoint as many Justices as I want until I get my way” is a pretty clear violation of powers.
But y’all can believe in unicorns and chocolate trees or whatever the fuck makes you feel better. I’m out.
FIRST, a “majority of the principle officers” of the cabinet have to assert the President is, indeed unable, THEN they need 2/3 in the Senate and House.
25thing requires:
Whereas as impeachmeant requires:
Mutually shared:
This would be a transparent attempt to usurp the power of the Supreme Court and make it subservient, not co-equal, to the other two branches.
If we want to fight a good-faith SC challenge, we’d have to do something like every president gets to appointments of 16 years or something that just makes things more equitable and less random (retirements, deaths). The more the intent is to alter the court for political reasons, the more likely it is to fail…
So I think impeachments, as long as a shot as they are currently, is a better tactic, and maybe investigations would expose the illegitimacy of the SC and build support for an update in a way abstract arguments about the number of justices do not.
not quite. the 25th doesn’t remove the president from office, it just strips power and duties and gives them to the vp, now ‘acting president’.
And any court-packing bill will have to override a veto, (2/3rds house & senate) plus overcome a SC challenge.
If this is a valid observation, how much of it is do with lack of instiutional support, both direct lack of support (Jackson) and damning-with-faint-praise (El-Sayed)? On top of establishment media making anyone’s leftists policies the issue of discussion while completely ignoring anything the Republican oppponent’s ever said or done?
That these candidates win against these currents leads me to the exact oppossite conclusion: these are the candidates that can win, and with less money.
Speaking of money, how about seeing how much money those better-performing moderates raised to continue the useless policies that will lead to the next and final fascist take over of the US?
Where was the FDA?
Busy investigating the link between Tylenol and autism?
Elect a clown, expect three rings full of dead children.
I don’t understand what three of these three comments are actually trying to say, and I’m absolutely furious!
My favorite is the little carve out they gave themselves for banning free speech around the SC building.
The SC would just rule it unconstitutional and end of story. Why are we talking about this? Even FDR couldn’t do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bill_of_1937?wprov=sfla1
What we do have a mechanism to do is impeach Justices and plenty of cause to do so.
Would a camera stop someone from trespassing on your property?
Always better. The more that we can drag down the franchise, the less money for TERF causes.