#scotusreform — Public Fediverse posts
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> Reforms that would break the supermajority right-wing Court’s grip on the country — its operating as a legislative veto for Democratic administrations and a hall pass for Republican ones — would go far beyond docket management and ethics reforms, though. Term limits, court packing, jurisdiction stripping — the ideas lighting up the intellectual left and spreading to Democratic officials would overhaul the Court as we know it.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democrats-supreme-court-reform
#scotusreform #uspol
#democrats #republicans
#constitutionalreform
#talkingpointsmemo #TPM
#jamieraskin #kamalaharris
#RubenGallego #darrellissa
#michaelbaumgartner
#callaisdecision #votingrights
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A Return to Jim Crow? Ex-DOJ Civil Rights Chief Kristen Clarke Denounces Gutting of Voting Rights Act http://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/12/voting_rights_scotus #uspoli #SCOTUSReform #BlameTrump #BlameTheGOP #racism #VotingRightsAct #CivilRights #TrumpRigginElections #GOPRiggedElections
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Tennessee Republicans salivating at the chance to draw out the last Democratic seat in Tennessee We get 40% of our budget from the federal government. At what point to Blue states stop sending us money? This all has a very secession-y vibe to it. #SCOTUSReform #UnpackTheCourt
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CW: U.S Politics, SCOTUS reform
Senator Ron Wyden just dropped the text of a bill to overhaul SCOTUS:
Read through, the links to the full text are at the bottom.
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CW: U.S Politics, SCOTUS reform
Senator Ron Wyden just dropped the text of a bill to overhaul SCOTUS:
Read through, the links to the full text are at the bottom.
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CW: U.S Politics, SCOTUS reform
Senator Ron Wyden just dropped the text of a bill to overhaul SCOTUS:
Read through, the links to the full text are at the bottom.
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Each justice would be required to publicly release their opinions & disclose how they voted on issues considered on an emergency basis, sometimes referred to as the #ShadowDocket. Such decisions, which have become more common & increasingly controversial in recent years, don’t identify how each justice voted.
#law #SCOTUS #ethics #JudicialEthics #Judiciary #JudicialReform #CourtReform #SCOTUSreform #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #USpol
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It would require the #IRS to initiate an #audit of the justices’ tax returns each year, release the results & make the tax filings public. Nominees to the court would have to disclose 3 yrs of tax returns.
Another measure would allow a two-thirds vote of the court to force a fellow justice to #recuse from a case.
#law #SCOTUS #ethics #JudicialEthics #Judiciary #JudicialReform #CourtReform #SCOTUSreform #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #USpol
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The #legislation would also require #SCOTUS nominees to be automatically scheduled for a vote in the #Senate if their nominations have lingered in committee for >180 days.
The measure would prevent senators from blocking a president’s nominees by refusing to hold a vote on them, as then-Senate Majority Leader #MitchMcConnell (R-KY) did after President Barack #Obama’s nomination of #MerrickGarland in 2016.#law #ethics #JudicialEthics #SCOTUSreform #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #USpol
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During the rollout, each president would approve justices in the first & third year of their terms.
The bill would also require a ruling by ⅔ of the high court & the circuit courts of appeals, rather than a simple majority, to overturn a #law passed by #Congress. #Wyden said the current court has been too quick to discard #precedent & curtail #rights by narrow majorities.#SCOTUS #ethics #JudicialEthics #Judiciary #JudicialReform #CourtReform #SCOTUSreform #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #USpol
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The US Supreme Court, routinely plagued by partisan bias, has given up legitimacy. Why is it not more of an election issue?
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The political philosophers of the early republic, the authors of the #Constitution, & the #law-school professors of the present day have all mostly assumed that federal judges will strive, in the words of Alexander #Hamilton, to “unite the requisite integrity with the requisite knowledge.”
#SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #illiberalism #criminal #extremism #MAGA #Republicans #neoconservatives #radicalization #bias #corruption #DisbandSCOTUS #FuckSCOTUS #SCOTUSreform
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But in practice, they are also constrained by norms & conventions. Since the early 20th century, for instance, #Congress has not dissolved #FederalCourts whose #judges displease it—which did happen in the more distant past. The idea of #CourtPacking has been considered out of bounds ever since #FDR tried & failed to reshape #SCOTUS in the 1930s by proposing to appoint up to 6 additional justices.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #illiberalism #criminal #extremism #corruption #SCOTUSreform
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In Dec 1761, King George III dispatched an order to the American colonies. In a recent defiance of convention, some American colonial #judges had been appointed for life, the same tenure that British judges enjoyed. Now the #king intended to make it clear that all colonial judges were to serve only “at the pleasure of the crown.”
#law #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #illiberalism #extremism #MAGA #Republicans #neoconservatives #radicalization #bias #corruption #DisbandSCOTUS #SCOTUSreform
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More via the great #AnneApplebaum @anneapplebaum
THE #JUDGES WHO SERVE AT #TRUMP’S PLEASURE
The Founders abhorred a #judiciary more #loyal to the Crown than to the rule of #law. But now the independent system they designed is under #threat.
#GiftArticle
#SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #illiberalism #criminal #extremism #MAGA #Republicans #neoconservatives #radicalization #bias #corruption #DisbandSCOTUS #FuckSCOTUS #SCOTUSreform
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/judicial-independence-judge-aileen-cannon-trump/679561/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxexHkeRx4gmx4koAAe8BeUs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share -
Excellent work by #NYTimes with deep reporting on recent #SCOTUS decisions.
Shockingly, but unsurprisingly we learn that the Chief Justice is highly political - and that some Trump cases are decided even before hearings or briefs.
The Court is broken. We need #SCOTUSinvestigation and #SCOTUSReform
How Roberts Shaped Trump’s Supreme Court Winning Streak https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/justice-roberts-trump-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K04.GIjb.sAC5efHzVudE
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@Nonilex
Nothing to see hereJust two SCOTUS "justices" in a private meeting with foreign money, a religious leader and an anti-gay marriage advocate.
FFS!!! We need #SCOTUSReform immediately.
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@Tipa
Only after a public trial with a full defense and appeals (or whatever high bar they wanted).Of course, nothing would stop a Red state from trying to do that anyway. I have zero faith that the SCOTUS would be consistent if the case benefited the Republican candidate.
I can easily see Texas passing a law based on that Const provision to bar "enemy" Harris in 2028 (with no trial)...and the SCOTUS allowing it.
We need #SCOTUSReform
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#SCOTUS won't allow #LGBT #student #protection in certain states
The U.S. #SupremeCourt declined on Friday to let President Joe #Biden's admin enforce a key part of a new rule protecting LGBT students from #discrimination in #schools & #colleges based on #gender identity in 10 #Republican-led states that had challenged it.
#law #TitleIX #education #Hate #FarRight #extremism #ActivistCourt #SCOTUSreform
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-wont-allow-lgbt-student-protection-certain-states-2024-08-16/ -
The irony. Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch speaks at Reagan Library about federal overreach. "Too much law".
https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2024/08/09/at-reagan-library-gorsuch-tells-of-rabbits-fish-federal-overreach/74697315007/
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[ oh & that’s to say nothing of the fact that a #SupremeCourt *Justice* literally just threatened the sitting #President of the #UnitedStates of America. ]
[ “Be careful” indeed. Mother F⁕⚠︎er. ]
listen to the clip of #Gorsuch’s interview on #FauxNews: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6359892007112
#SCOTUS #law #CourtReform #SCOTUSreform
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…make no mistake, this is bully talk coming from #Gorsuch & #SCOTUS. The #SupremeCourt has no official capacity or duty to make #laws or enforce them. It is the sole jurisdiction of #Congress to make laws, & thereby create #legislative reform. It is also the power of the #President, as the leader of his #political party, to recommend & advise to his party members in Congress to make laws that he believes would be beneficial to the Republic.
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What government is coming after me, Mr. Justice? I am a #law abiding citizen. The only branch of the govt that seems to, at this specific moment, be coming after a good citizen like me & my rights is #SCOTUS… of which you are a member…. So which is it, Mr. #Gorsuch, the *deep-state*… or you…? I would love a ferociously #independent judge & jury of my peers to make decisions, but that is pretty damn difficult when you just made #BRIBERY #LEGAL!
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I would not consider #Gorsuch nor the other #Conservative *Justices* my peers. They do not represent any of my #political, #moral, #cultural, or #intellectual #values at all. I also would not consider a Judge that goes & airs his opinion on #FOXNews, like dirty laundry, #independent — not by any meaning of the word. Furthermore, the line “when the government’s coming after you,” betrays even more political #bias.
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Then #Gorsuch finished with the most cryptic and disconcerting [threat] warning:
“And so I just say, be careful.”
Why not just say, “stand back & stand by?”
Maybe Justice Gorsuch broke into Justice #Kavanaugh’s liquor cabinet, but one wonders what on earth Gorsuch means by “don’t you want a ferociously independent judge & a jury of your peers to make those decisions.” Certainly, I do. I do not know what that has to do w/preventing #SCOTUS reform.
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“You’re not going to be surprised that I’m not going to get into what is now a political issue during a presidential election year. I don’t think that would be helpful.”
Justice #Gorsuch said this immediately before getting #political & outright god damned #creepy.