Doctor MemoryJun 30, 2023
Brilliant system we've got here. A racist game show host flukes his way into the presidency by losing the popular vote by three million and so he gets to install three Supreme Court justices and they get to un-do the last 50 years of legislation and jurisprudence. Wow, such popular mandate, very democracy.
Show threadNathanael Nerode

@memory Has nothing to do with the law or the Constitution, either. The Constitution says:

"Judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour."

This is written as a self-executing provision.

Constitutionally, Thomas and Alito are not judges -- they've actually confessed to taking bribes. Why does Biden pretend that they're judges, rather than arresting them for their crimes?

Jun 30, 2023 at 6:12pmWeb
Show threadNathanael NerodeJun 30, 2023

@memory The people who wrote the Constitution were lawyers. They could have said "Judges shall hold their offices until impeached". They didn't. They could have said "Judges shall hold their offices until found guilty of bad behavior." They didn't.

They knew what they wrote. "shall hold their offices during good behaviour". It's self-executing.

Thomas and Alito aren't judges, Constitutionally. People are just pretending that they are for some reason.

Show threadHello, yes, this is GreglyJun 30, 2023
@neroden I mean, they’re such strict constitutionalists, you’d think they’d want to stick to the exact letter of the text, right? 😅
Show threadMark TomczakJun 30, 2023
@neroden It’s not up to him. Congress, however, can definitely impeach them. Well within their purview.