...um...yeah. Strong agree. It's my only silver lining outcome for everything we're going through now. A post-Watergate, presidential powers limitation reform moment (as happened then) spurred on by another power-hungry presidency. Sometimes reform only happens after bad things do.
Sadly, not holding my breath
You would have to “reform” the current Supreme Court first.
"reform" And how do you plan to do that?
That’s the question. Hence the quotes. Seeing as how the current chief justice just loves him some unitary executive, seems to me you either wait for a lot of ppl to die or you expand the court.
You expand the court - they expand the court - where does it end? The court doesn't need "reform" You just don't like the Constitution
I like the Constitution just fine, thanks. The current Supreme Court, however, is the most corrupt bench since Taney was in charge. Oh, and the court has been expanded and contracted many times in our history and somehow the world didn’t end.
Since 1869 have there consistently been nine justices appointed to the Supreme Court Prove "corruption", dems have been trying for decades - nothing has come from it. Clearly you don't like it, since the court is following it
Well we could start with a guy named Harlan Crow. Which justice did he buy off? Oh yeah, the one whose wife was a J6 co-conspirator. Was he the justice who was secretly recorded last year saying he sees his role as an us vs them partisan deal? No, that was Alito. The same guy widely suspected of…
Leaking the Dobbs decision. Something that’s never been done before. And it’s funny how this court regularly overturns ironclad decisions from lower circuits — decisions often penned by Republican appointees — in favor of Trump. The immunity decision was especially egregious. It’s like the Rosetta
Stone of judicial corruption. Court watchers have all but given up trying to find rationales for these decisions that aren’t purely political. Not to mention the just plainly destructive rulings like Citizens United. You know: the one that said corporations were ppl. The one that opened the flood
gates on corporate money in our elections. I know none of this convinces you. You probably think Roe was a worse decision than Dred Scott. But if you were the only one reading this I wouldn’t bother.
Sorry but the SCOTUS has certainly leaked before Dobbs. Including while Roe v. Wade was being deliberated, The Washington Post published an article on July 4, 1972, covering infighting by the justices, including an internal memo written by Justice William O. Douglas
Chief Justice Warren Burger had to reassign a member of the Court's print staff after determining they leaked the results of multiple cases to Tim O’Brien, an ABC News correspondent. You make these claims without know what the hell you are talkng about
OMFG they didn't give him immunity they AFFIRMED he had immunity for offical acts. Otherwise obama would be in prison for murder
The ease with which the DOJ and FBI were completely appropriated might be the thing that's terrified me most about this administration. Would love to see both of these orgs under the oversight of a 3-person body appointed by Congress w/ 1 appointed by the exec's party & 2 by the opposition party.
The question is will it last it was only a little more than a decade after Watergate that Iran Contra happened.
That's true. And all the Iran-contra investigation hardly slowed things down at all.
We just talked about this as well - doomed-to-fail.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-...
In the US political system, reform ONLY happens after bad things happen.
Taking away Presidential power to just do stuff would help fix Congress - because then they would have to do the legislating. Gonna take a preseident who says that he doesn't need the power. Gonna take a leader.
The President doesn't have the power to just do stuff, he just does it anyway. I expect SCROTUS to rule against him decisively as soon as a Democrat wins the presidency.
This feels unlikely. Necessary, but unlikely.