Donald Trump is already using the Supreme Court immunity ruling exactly how you’d expect.
  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    101·
    3 days ago

    Honestly, I think that impeaching all 6 justices is the right thing to do.

    Just explain it to people in congress. You WILL lose your power when the whip comes down. You MAY be imprisoned or killed if you don’t get in line, and even if not, any power you had in congress will be stripped and discarded. There is no safety, even for the most extreme of the true believers. This is your chance. If you don’t try to stop it, then I think it’s better odds than 50/50 than within a couple of years you’ll be saying you’d do ANYTHING to be able to go back to today and do it, and have your old life just hanging out in Washington and doing legalized insider trading and collecting bricampaign contributions and not having to worry about what will happen to you or your family or your home, again.

    I don’t know if the people will believe if it is explained to them. Groupthink and complacency are powerful things. But that is absolutely what’s at stake.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      461·
      3 days ago

      Why bother with impeachment? Biden should just exploit their most recent verdict and round them up as part of an emergency official act.

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        3311·
        3 days ago

        This is the fascism trap. It’s tempting to fight back “in kind” once the rules start going out the window, and obviously by the letter of their decision it would be perfectly legal for him to just assassinate them as an official act and then nominate all new justices. But this is a trap. The further we all abandon the unspoken rules that keep things on the rails, the worse it gets. You have to fight back on the tilted table without yourself breaking any rules you can avoid breaking.

        It’s a shitty situation but that is the strategy, as far as I understand it.

        (And I know, or I assume, that you weren’t serious - but still it applies, even to more minor things like solving the problem by nominating 10 new justices or things like that.)

    • joneskind@lemmy.world
      16·
      3 days ago

      Biden should use the 6 infinity stones Supreme Court judges to destroy the infinity stones fire the Supreme Court judges

      • veroxii@aussie.zone
        10·
        3 days ago

        I just looked up the inaugural oath and the president promises to defend the Constitution from domestic enemies. So if the president as part of their duties consider the supreme court a thread to the constitution then it’s his duty to fire them. And they already said he’d be immune.

        Not sure what he’s waiting for to be honest.

  • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    If the supreme court is going to make political decisions and try to interpret the laws in such a way to support those decisions then they should be an elected body.

  • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
    7·
    3 days ago

    I guess they can say that now, considering that corruption is now legal if your name ends with a Trump.