The Alito Scandal Is Worse Than It Seems
The Alito Scandal Is Worse Than It Seems
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin has refused calls to bring Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts in for a formal hearing on the issue. Instead, he and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, another senior Democrat on the panel, merely asked Roberts to push Alito to recuse himself on cases related to the 2020 election and to come in for a meeting. According to White House aides, President Joe Biden is reluctant to engage on the controversy because he fears that criticizing the conservative justices will undermine the court’s legitimacy as well as the president’s claim to be a supporter of the country’s democratic institutions and norms
We need some politicians with spines in charge
87Oh no.
Not undermine the legitimacy of the Court!
Those fucksticks did it themselves. Anything the Executive does to put it back on course is an improvement.
38Then you'll have people complaining that politics is directly interfering with justice which isn't supposed to happen.
12It doesn’t matter what he says. It would just be actionless criticism.
POTUS oversees the Executive Branch, not the Legislative Branch. He can’t remove a Justice. He can’t even seat one without a vacancy and congressional approval. Only Congress can try a Justice for impeachment. The last time that happened was 1805, and the Justice remained seated until his death.
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-chase.htm
This article is throwing tons of shade for not expanding SCOTUS, like it’s the wave of the President’s magic wand. That also requires approval from Congress. There’s been a stalled bill in the House for over a year.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/democrats-introduce-bill-to-expand-u-s-supreme-court/
I expect ignorant President finger-pointing from the average citizen, but I’m terribly disappointed in the ignorance of that article from Politico.
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SCOTUS is an unelected and basically ungoverned / ungovernable body at this point. The facade is gone. They're going to reinterpret our laws as they see fit until our country resembles the hellhole they want it to be.
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