Democrats — especially progressives — have increasingly expressed more anger at the high court in recent years.

“Alito’s next opinion piece in the WSJ is about to be ‘I am a little king, actually. The Constitution doesn’t explicitly say I’m not,’” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) quipped.

  • queermunist she/her
    38·
    10 months ago

    Impeachment is solely at the discretion of McCarthy. The rest of the House doesn’t matter.

    And he’s just one man.

    • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      You need a majority vote in the house and the Republican majority will NEVER vote to impeach a Republican Supreme Court justice when there’s a Democratic President. Will never happen.

      This is the same political body who needed 15 votes to decide who their own leader was.

      • queermunist she/her
        27·
        10 months ago

        I’m pretty sure impeachment proceedings can just be started by McCarthy whenever he wants.

        Removal requires a majority so that won’t happen, but impeachment matters. Do you think Trump lost for no reason?

        • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          House leadership doesn’t do anything without knowing the votes are there first and they are absolutely not there.

          • queermunist she/her
            27·
            10 months ago

            McCarthy can be made to do anything with enough mass mobilization against him.

            • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              The problem is any mass mobilization against him will come from those further Right, not Left.

              • queermunist she/her
                27·
                10 months ago

                Only because none of the Left’s political leadership is willing to actually mobilize the masses!

                Which is what I’ve been calling for this whole thread!

                • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  In the House, the Left is in the minority, the entire Democratic body could mobilize against McCarthy and he wouldn’t give two shits, because as far as he’s concerned, they’re already against him. They’re the minority, he doesn’t have to care.