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I would rather see them impeach Alito and Thomas for blatant corruption, but neither will ever happen, so
What's the process for impeaching a US supreme court justice?
Same as any other office holder. Impeach in the house, convict in the Senate.
Worth knowing:
Unlike other impeachable offices, SCOTUS judges serve for an unlimited term that is subject to an undefined "during good behavior" rule.
A future administration with sufficient votes to reform SCOTUS can and should take this to impose a meaningful code of conduct on judges that can boot them from the bench without needing the senate to go through a political process.
Basically the same as presidents and other political officers iirc
I agree completely, but the next best thing is making them irrelevant
Even if they did, Trump would get 2 more picks for SCJ
I get and agree with the pessimism. but if she advocates for this as part of her campaign, along with many other necessary counters to the damage that has been done to our democracy, I support that! I'll prefer someone else for as long as i can, but if she ends up somehow being the nominee I won't be mad that this is part of her platform.
thing is, saying and doing are different things. we desperately need someone who is MORE aggressive at fixing everything that's been broken than Trump has been at destroying.
Imagine if RBG retired, DWS and HRC didn't cheat the primaries in 2016, and Harris didn't get coronated as candidate in 2024.
The Democrats make their own shitty problems and get in their own way every cycle and wonder why they keep losing to carnival barkers like Trump.
It's entirely their fault we are in the situation we're in now.
For sure they're to blame, but the situation would be substantially less shitty if the right weren't literally hitler
Yeah. I feel like it’s really important to point out just how fucking stupid Dem leadership is, and it feels like it goes without saying, but the GOP are fucking pedophile Nazis and they suck at everything expect being stupid ass pedophile Nazis that are destroying the U.S.
Fuck the Guardians Of Pedophiles.
As designed
If Biden has stepped down in year 2 and let Harris be president ney the first black woman president, she would have been reelected easily. Biden should have what was best for this country not his ego
Speaking to Emerge, Harris raised the idea of Supreme Court reform “including the notion of expanding the court.”
That's coming out swinging? Maybe if she releases a signed public statement saying she supports court expansion and if she thinks an un-filibuster-able bill would be an appropriate way to do so regardless of what the Senate Parliamentarian says I'd believe it, but this seems so vague it's meaningless.
“Comes out swinging”
Aka not doing a single thing about it that matters.
Once again Democrats saying that are in favor of doing something they could have done when they had power, and when they have power again, they will forget all about it and ostracize you if you bring it up.
Sounds like someone is thinking about the 2028 primaries.
If only we had some evidence of whether she actually would support this in the general election, instead of reverting to bland right-acceptable talking points!
DNC starting/continuing to play cards against the rising popularity of AOC as a 2028 candidate. "Just how palatable to the progressives and real leftists do we have to make one of our controllable people be to derail a real leftist shifting the inertia of the Democrat base away from us?"
It's true, I'll only vote for a primary candidate who brings this up with a serious plan of action.
But I'd like to go much farther left than Harris. We need systemic reform or we'll never recover from this last (four and a half!) decade(s) of ruinous policy.
Can someone please explain to me the logic behind allowing states to redistribute their districts every few years? The problem isn’t that the GOP redistricts in a way to oppress black voters or that the Dems redistrict to support them, it’s that we allow these shenanigans at all. Why are we allowed to have these battles in the first place? There has to be a better solution.
I mean, populations change. And the number of seats allocated to an area in a representative democracy needs to change with that.
Its just that every state should have a third party, non-partisan commission drawing those districts with ranked choice voting nationwide to actually better represent the will of the people vs letting legislators in their own state design and vote on their own constituents. We should be voting for them, not the other way around.
Kamala Harris comes out swinging...
...Harris has blasted the Supreme Courts decision...
...on a call with nonprofit...
Journalism is dead
Idk. I dont think expanding and accepting the corrupt scrotus judges as equal to the others is enough.
I think the argument needs to be made that the words of the constitution "shall serve on good behavior" means litterally that, and that therefore all the current R appointees abdicated their positions long ago and their rulings are invalid.
When the judges try to rule that they are still judges and that they say it takes impeachment, it should be pointed out that, as regular citizens, they A, have to argue that in court as a plaintif, and that B, attempting to rule on a standard they directly benefit from is intrinsically corrupt behavior that constitutes having quit according to the exact words of the constitution.
We honestly should organize as a citizenry, and encourage them to abdicate.
Oh wow, swinging?!? She's so brave. Surely she'll stick to her guns if she ever gets nominated...right??
ffs get these establishment dems far, far away from the next election.
Sit down. Shut up. A lot of us voted for you out of harm reduction. You're further negating that every time you emerge from whatever cesspool you fucked off to after the election.
I see the stamp of religion all over this, but not in a moral sense. Our leaders and journalists work so hard to ignore that elephant in the room.
There is nothing moral about religion anyway
Kamala Harris finally choosing to stand up for an issue. Nice.
Dems are great at doing that when they don't have the ability to actually do it.
Fuck. Off. Harris.
Ah, great thing she was never VP or any such place to try and do this when it was an issue years ago....
That would be embarrassing.
From 2021
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-packing-expansion-democratic-bill-13-justices/
Several Democrats in the House and Senate announced plans Wednesday night to introduce a bill to add four more justices to the Supreme Court, which would bring the total number of justices to 13. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swiftly said 12 hours later that she would not bring the bill to the floor for a vote.
Flashback to everyone telling Hillary to go back into the woods
Pipe down Kamala. You had your chance in the spotlight and Americans rejected you.
...you're supposed to keep that part quiet until republicans are out of office... 😒
So she wants a seat? Sorry but you’re not progressive enough unless you can replace the RV dipshit tomorrow.
She needs to give it up and sit down.
This sparks joy
I used to think they need to add about 4 seats to the Supreme Court. I no longer think that.
Now I think they should add 20 seats, and they should have term limits, age limits, and rolling election dates. Every president should be able to appoint a few seats, but never enough to change the overall direction of the court.
One bad faith president shouldn't be able to negatively influence policy for decades after he's gone.
I'm glad she's reaching for something that the Dems have avoided for years. MAGA has been gaming SCOTUS for decades, and the Dems allowed it, approving their obviously corrupt choices nearly every time, and it's about time they started fighting back.
Dems need to stop trying to be MAGA Lite, and do far more fighting back, and embracing the issues that should be defining them - Universal Health Care, Student Loan Forgiveness, Free Day Care, Free College, Federal School curriculum, etc.