your regular reminder that Judicial Review is not anywhere written in the Constitution but "participants in an insurrection are automatically barred from holding office" is.
if already wasn’t apparent from his behavior on the court, Alito is straightforwardly an insurrectionist and should not be there. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/u...
The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.
But as we know, every amendment except for the second is just optional
"ah this legislative power that overrules the other branches of government is so obvious that we don't even need to write it down" is not how the rest of the constitution was drafted bsky.app/profile/aih....
It's constitutional for the President to add additional seats to the Supreme Court without congressional approval if the newly-packed Supreme Court says so.
Not to be the rain on the parade dork but that isn’t in the constitution unless you already hold office (ofc Alito *does*)
For some reason the Supreme Court has looked right past the insurrection clause in the constitution. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be at risk of another Trump Presidency.
Next you'll tell me that "The President has a free pass to break the law, in fact he is more omnipotent than post-Magna Carta royalty" isn't written in the Constitution either
as a phillies fan i desperately need biden to reclaim the mantle of Most Prominent Phillies Fan Politician, no reason the 2022 NL pennant can't be flying from the white house too
SCOTUS judges cannot be trusted to faithfully uphold the PLAIN LANGUAGE of the Constitution. They have betrayed their country, and broken their oaths of office. The Supreme Court judges bring great shame to good citizens who once trusted them to truthfully uphold the Constitution.
Yes, I would think that if you were a justice you would rule on what the constitution actually said. If you felt the insurrection clause was problematic in some way, you might argue that an amendment should be passed to deal with whatever issue it was, but until then, you follow the constitution
I maintain that Marbury v. Madison remains the most destructive SCOTUS decision of all time