• MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It doesn’t even seem to be much work now that they aren’t pretending to have legitimate rationale behind these decisions. They have a 6-3 majority, lifetime appointments, and zero oversight beyond impeachment which will never fucking happen. They’re bulletproof assholes and they’ll push as far as they feel like so long as they don’t piss people off enough to assassinate them, and it’s almost exclusively conservatives who would go to such lengths, so yeah they’re bulletproof.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I think the supreme court is the biggest example that what this country needs is to be rebuilt. It is wildly overpowered for its responsibilities and wildly reliant on a faulty premise of branch unity the founding fathers based their accountability mechanisms on. As if the feeling of being encroached on as a legislator would override their happenstance agreement with the specific ruling they see doing the encroaching.

    What we need instead is for “SCOTUS” to be a sortitionate body, any federal judge can serve on a SCOTUS provided they are randomly selected for the case and haven’t served it already, up to five SCOTI can try a case via appeals before an “en banc” judgement where all five SCOTUSes retry the case, and if even that fails a judicial synod can be called where every federal judge drops their shit and gets together to law nerd this shit out.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Don’t forget Judicial Review isn’t actually an original function of the Judicial Branch. It’s a power they decided to give themselves some ten years after the Constitution was written.