US Senate Democrats pursue Supreme Court ethics legislation
Senate Democrats are pursuing legislation this week that would set a binding ethics code for the U.S. Supreme Court following revelations that some conservative justices have failed to disclose luxury trips and real estate transactions - a measure facing an uphill battle thanks to Republican opposition.
Beyond that, what’s to say the court doesn’t just declare it unconstitutional.
We’re well past them pretending they don’t legislate from the bench, they’re just striking down or upholding laws that they like at this point.
I don’t know about shit storm. Student loan forgiveness was clearly within the presidential powers in the HEROES Act of 2003. Loan forgiveness is also overwhelmingly popular with the voters on both sides of the aisle. Since the SC has no teeth to enforce rulings, Biden could just wait until a month after reelection and do it anyway, with near-zero consequences. Nobody is coming for him for making them not owe $10,000, especially since the plaintiffs in the SC case were unwilling, unwitting, and could not prove any harm.
I say that under the assumption Biden wouldn’t lose to another candidate, and the Democrats retain at least one of the Congressional Chambers. In this fucky timeline, who knows what the USA will look like in 2 years
Technically, if it does end up getting passed, it will theoretically have teeth. But then the Tribunal of Six will probably just say “it’s unconstitutional to hold us accountable”.
At that point, someone’s bound to infer something creative from the statement “supreme court justices are appointed for life” sooner or later.
It doesn’t necessarily need to have teeth since the court has no enforcement mechanism when declaring something unconstitutional. Instead of putting teeth into the law itself, one could argue that if justices were found to be “unethical” it reduces the likelihood that that judges decision is unbiased and opens the door to govt just ignorimg the cases in which an unethical judge tips the scale on which side makes up the majority of the court…
Still doubt any of that happens though because Dems are the govt now
The Dems are unlikely to straight up just ignore SCOTUS rulings. With all that’s happened in the last 6 years, I believe the Republicans absolutely would ignore a SCOTUS ruling, and they would be FAR more likely to just ignore SCOTUS altogether if the Dems ignored the SCOTUS student loan forgiveness ruling. What is more likely, would be the Dems/Biden reduce payments to some minimal amount like $1/mo and place all student loans at a negative interest rate, since the powers to set payment amounts and interest rates were confirmed by the SCOTUS ruling.
The end result would be something like ‘If you’ve paid the principal balance, you’re done. If your loans have lasted 10+ years, you’re done. If you cannot afford to pay, pay us the $1/mo and eventually your balance will get to $0 with that negative interest rate.’
Guys who administer constituinal law having hard time complying with the basic bar rules...
Where they barred anyway? Asking for a friend
Be real for a sec…
100k is way too low of a number.
Reminds me of this quote I came across the other day about Marbury v Madison
Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Smith Adams, September 11, 1804, “but the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature & executive also in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch.”
Not…really. It’s the supposed to be the more ethical, upstanding half of Congress, with the popular House of Representatives constituting the deplorable half.
So, regardless of which side of Congress is referring to, or both sides, it doesn’t matter: their self-enrichment undermines their stance on ethics. It’s not like Manchin, a Senator, also hasn’t benefited from the largesse of billionaires.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress
Congress is the Senate and the House of Representatives. Two chambers.
Term limits are a great way to mitigate effects of judges. While an opposing party may control it for a time, it will end. Expansion does nothing to solve this, but may temporarily appear to. Until again, an opposing party elects judges to fill those seats you just added.
There should be term & age limits on all our representatives.
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