Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg
Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg
Schumer wants to engage in jurisdiction stripping, a rarely used tactic that can shrink the Supreme Court’s authority.
In Trump v. United States (2024) ...
That is the most accurate possible name for the supreme court's recent decision.
It's a pretty accurate description of the last 8 years TBH.
Senate shenanigans are always fun to read about.
Also, we learned that they're "separate but equal" branches of government in school. Let's see if the legislative branch can claw back some level of influence.
…we learned that they're "separate but equal" branches of government in school.
Samsies. But then again, I don’t think normal people (our founders included) ever expected a willful collusion by a party to stack those branches of government in their favor.
The founders didn't intend for the SCOTUS to be an equal branch of government. They just kinda started doing constitutional review, and multiple founders were explicit about how that's not what they intended.
More like our founders would be shocked that we haven't rewritten the Constitution yet, and horrified that centuries later we're treating it like some divine scripture
There are multiple mechanisms in there to modify or even rewrite the whole thing. They totally saw this coming, they were pretty vocal about it. They hoped future generations would build on their work, not enshrine it
So now introducing bills and doing their fucking jobs is "ambitious?" These sucker's make like $200k just in base salary and are the most unproductive decade of Congress I think ever.
It's good to be king. Get paid to do nothing.
The Constitutional Amendment is more bulletproof, but a much heavier lift.
This one will end up at SCOTUS, with an expected outcome. Slow moving trains and all.
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn Trump
Lol
That'd require a forklift.
Get it to the floor and make them all vote on the record. That vote will haunt them in the post-Trump era. May even help shoot down some rising stars down the line.
From what I've seen others state, the plan is for the Republicans to lose, then enough politicians call foul play that it goes to the Supreme Court, then the Supreme Court lets the politicians pick and they override the will of the people. So it wouldn't haunt them in that case
I think you're right that this is the high level game plan, but it does require them to be in spitting distance of a win vs. blatantly overturning an obvious loss. The past week or so feels more hopeful than normal they won't manage that (but it's not too late for a procession of October Surprises)
Couldn't they FOIA the judges' financial records, and if money came from Trumps mafia, associate it to the conflict of interest around the ruling?
Then the ruling could be argued invalid because of alleged bribery.
This is a good move. Thrg just need to be careful to preclude somehow giving an opening for the court to hear it via original jurisdiction. Congress can only limit the court's appellate jurisdiction under the Constitution.
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