• kescusay@lemmy.world
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    Of course he won’t. Anyone who expects him to have a shred of decency or ethics at this point is hopelessly naive.

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      A slightly less naive take is that we’re getting these statements on public record, so that we can take action on them later (assuming that day ever comes 😓)

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        Take action how. By who.

        Only chance you have to fix the Supreme Court is by Biden appointing more justices like FDR did. And he better do it before trump packs the place as a safety measure. Or some one shoots all the traitors.

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          Technically, Congress can impeach and remove, but there’s no way that will happen. They can barely agree to give themselves pay raises, which is just about the only thing they ever agree on anyway.

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          Impeachment by a future Congress was what I had in mind loosely. But I’m just one(1) person and not an expert on the subject. I suspect there may be options I do not see, but keeping a record is important to any future action on the matter.

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    Good. It just means we have no obligation to follow the rulings of an illegitimate court.

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      That’s right. The Supreme Court’s legitimacy comes from our collective acceptance of their legitimacy. It’s a bit circular, but they stop being legitimate once we stop seeing them as legitimate. They have no enforcement mechanism.

      I guess it would take multiple blue states blatantly disregarding their rulings to effectively send that message.

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        The problem is that the cops and people with guns will happily enforce these rulings while we peasants can screw off.

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      Right? And after all of Johnny boy’s grandstanding about impartiality and improving the image of the court and such. I wish someone would put each of these instances to Roberts like “ok so like how much shit are you full of? Are you unwilling or unable to get your boys in line? Because they’re making you look stupid bro”

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    It’s cynically amusing that we’ve reached a point in US history that Supreme Court justices with no integrity don’t even bother trying to hide the fact that they have no integrity.

    I think that’s actually part of the vetting process when a new nominee is chosen. Most of the public focus is on ideology, but that’s likely just the first phase of it for the people reviewing possible candidates. It’s likely that after they get a pool of candidates who are ideologically acceptable, they actually look for a particular combination of arrogance and an utter lack of integrity, so they can, it is hoped, end up with somebody who will not only be corrupt and dishonest but defiantly and determinedly corrupt and dishonest - somebody who can just be set on whatever path they’ve been bribed to follow and then set free, and their own egos will take over and keep them on that path.

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    Hey no one kill me in the civil war I just wanna be gay, grow food and ride motorcycles and if you think any of those things are wrong well I guess you can shoot me.

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    If I had a deathnote… MAYBE I wouldn’t write his name in it, but only if he notices all the corrupt government officials suddenly having unfortunate accidents, realize he has a chance to be a better person than they were, and then acts upon that chance promptly.

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      Honestly id probably go full Light with the deathnote but in a “fuck all yous removed” sorta way and not “im a god” type of way. Im an asshole not a lunatic.

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      Men like him don’t learn from things like that. The only way he would “learn” is if you specified he wrote a manifesto of regret, then committed suicide.