Don't get me wrong it might annoy the hell out of you. It might even ruin your day but their job is to interpret the law free from social and political pressure. Now Biden is calling for reform of the Supreme Court with some type of term limits and a code of ethics. Didn't know Dems were fans of term limits. Even in the wake of Roe I don't recall conservatives calling for wholesale SCOTUS reform. Incidentally the Court in giving Trump limited immunity from prosecution benefits ALL presidents. It could help Biden if need be or Kamala Harris someday if she were to become president. This is the type of radicalism a Harris presidency has planned for America. Safer to stick with the weird party for the time being.
Sure. If my appointed court said i was above the law, I'd be happy.
ReplyDeleteDo whatever the hell I wanted. Interpret the constitution - a kentucky
blackpowder gun in every cabin, cuz we got no Army. Abortion? Like the Bible, const says nuttin either way. We got term limits on presidents, is that bad too? BTW, Amy Coney Barrett, former Notre Dame prof, switched her mind after reviewing Idaho's dark age
abortion law. But if only 9 people out of 337 Million of us know how to define the constitution, we are pretty naive.
An obscure blogger I greatly respect puts it this way-
ReplyDeleteThe devil in the details goes on and on, but the keystone is that the president, under Samuel Alito’s “unitary executive” theory -- only last week given a massive accelerative boost by the Supreme Court -- would have almost unlimited powers if and only if what the president did were approved by the Republican-stacked Court, so a president elected on the Democratic ticket obviously could not, literally, get away with murder, as could a Republican. "
(Always has an answer. Smarter than thou.)
ReplyDeleteLimited immunity was my takeaway from the decision. The news reported it as such. Limited immunity does not mean getting away with murder. That obscure blogger sounds like he was drinking the Kool-Aid.
ReplyDeleteChristian Brothers.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall Biden's earlier recommendation was to put more justices on the Court or stack the Court. That would've been a real party.
ReplyDeleteHow did you find the obscure blogger? Did you search for obscure blogs? I may be not as big as Shaw but I hope I'm not that obscure.
Packing the court has a long history. Lincoln and FDR just sort of ignored them.. Obscure blogger does life in general, only once in awhile look at political crap. Known for years. No, Z-Man, you are not obscure and also respected. Your strength IMO rises above political tripe.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I can remember that SCOTUS reform has actually become a thing. Even pro-lifers never pushed for it not that you can't find one or two. They just waited decades until Roe was overturned. Before Biden folks from both parties were like maybe one of those oldster justices will finally retire and we can get our man or woman in. Biden presents no compelling reason for SCOTUS reform. Even his call for term limits for justices could work against liberals. You'd have no long-term Thurgood Marshall or Ruth Bader Ginsburg types. It's not well thought out. Biden is talking out of his ass.
ReplyDeleteMitch McConnel left SCOTUS one short for a year, rather than consider Obama's candidates. Trump came in and named 3 in his term.. Now Senators serve a long time (McConnel 39 years) BUT they run for re-election every six years - like everyone else in the other two branches of the Federal government. Clarence Thomas been judging now for 33 years, despite much criticism about emoluments and his wife working for the Trump legal team. Judicial tradition
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Military courts martial are a bitt different. Both prosecutor and defender are allowed to remove officers from the board of judges for cause, and one each for no reason at all. I was a defense counsel for some cases. There was an old Marine Colonel with a lined face that looked like he would stop your grandma. He was the first guy kicked off the sitting appointed court every time. I tended to feel sorry for him, but the JAG officer said "The Colonel hates being in court, he does it on purpose."
ReplyDeleteThe Biden SCOTUS reform package: term limits and a code of ethics. THAT'S IT?
ReplyDeleteWon't go anywhere. A survey shows Americans are for it though-
ReplyDeleteDem 72%
GOP 70%
IND 68%
It would take a constitutional amendment. Those are long and seldom successful.
They didn't poll me. I never get polled.
ReplyDeleteI get polled. Wife hates it. Lets me give my opinion to the statisticians who could care less.
ReplyDeleteWife got hearing aids. No shouting in the house anymore. Shhh.
ReplyDeleteMothers have acute hearing. Their ears act like saucers. Growing up was in another room and muttered the f-bomb. Mom: "What did you say?" Me: "How did you hear that?"
ReplyDeleteDid you play Ralphie in Christmas Story? Soap treatment time.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I was little, my chore was to bring a bucket of coal from the wood shed. Stumbled on the porch steps. Coal all over. I responded with the words that sound like O'Somnavitch. Had to do the soap thing. it was ivory, I think. My Mom was big on tar soap for our hair. I went to school smelling like a highway construction guy.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day.
ReplyDeleteThinking back, it is a wonder we survived.
ReplyDeleteWas riding my bike in the park. Hit a rut went flying. Got up like nothing happened like in the movies.
ReplyDeleteBack when I was building rockets, I was cooking a sauce pan of sugar and potassium nitrate on a hot plate in the basement. Going to pour it into a rocket. I boiled over, made a big ball of fire and left a large black sooty circle on the ceiling. What happened Bobby? Nuttin.
ReplyDeleteYou were the young Sheldon type?
ReplyDeleteMore of a Holden Caulfield.
ReplyDeleteI don't work with too many literary types. If I said that name at work somebody would go when does he start?
ReplyDeleteOK. I was like Leonard Hoffstadter, chasing the elusive Penny all over the set.
ReplyDeleteCame from a poor family. Had the same bike from 2nd grade through HS. No gear shifts, no skinny tires, just a plain old bike that I painted a different color every year, thinking to make it look like I got a new one. Got to college and girls and bought a 1951 Ford coupe with fender skirts. Younger sister borrowed it and stripped the forward gears all over the street. Kid up the street picked up the mess and fixed it. Neighbors, like Tim Walz, helpful..the Mr. Rogers of Littleville, USA.
ReplyDeleteI like watching mountain biking on YouTube. Not into doing it though. Would wind up in the hospital
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