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.

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
    41·
    10 months ago

    Impeachment starts in the House, which is currently run by Republicans. So that’s a non-starter unless you want to impeach Kagan, Sotomayor or Brown-Jackson.

    • 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.