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George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽And I say to Justice Alito, no provision in the Constitution gives him the authority to regulate women's bodies.
Mark vW@georgetakei No authority to regulate doctors?
JustAnotherWizard@georgetakei Alito has never actually read Article III.
v. claire@georgetakei Mr. Alito should know Congress MAKES the laws, and the President enforces them.
MugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️@georgetakei
To Justice Alito: In that same vein, only Congress has the authority to create law.
By hearing cases where no actual lower court ruling had to be resolved (Hobbs), and undoing decades of precedent (Roe), #SCotUS has WILDLY overstepped its authority.
Grandpa Don@georgetakei
checks and balance
No branch is autonomous. That was primarily focused on policy, but if one branch is rotten, it is incumbent upon the others to rein it it. He should be impeached for egregious arrogance.
checks and balance
No branch is autonomous. That was primarily focused on policy, but if one branch is rotten, it is incumbent upon the others to rein it it. He should be impeached for egregious arrogance.
Dale Worthington@dbc3 @georgetakei And when the majority of all branches of government are corrupt, then what? Cuz that's where we are, Right Now.
Asking for a friend...
Asking for a friend...
@georgetakei Alito should read Article III: "The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish."
Matt Quick@georgetakei Alito’s take is terrible. Checks and balances. Congress (Legislative) passes a bill and it goes to the President’s desk (Executive). He signs it into law. That’s two branches against one. Jesus, I learned this in my grade school social studies classes.
John Breen@georgetakei That's right, Mr Alito. the Congress cannot constrain the Executive or Judicial branch.
And the Judicial branch can't constrain the Executive or Legislative branches. Or even individual states like Alabama.
It's right there in the Constitution
Not..
And the Judicial branch can't constrain the Executive or Legislative branches. Or even individual states like Alabama.
It's right there in the Constitution
Not..
504BatteryDralito is an idiot.
The Constitution provides 2 tools for dealing with a corrupted SCOTUS.
Expanding the Court and impeachment of judges.
Shame that everyone in DC seems afraid to use these 2 tools.
Almost like no one with the power and ability wants to change/fix it. 🤔
Nice to know I'm smarter than a SCOTUS judge, anyway. 🤷
*504 puffs out chest and struts around the living room while the dog side eyes me*
Grinning Cat 
🚫👑@504DR @georgetakei Three tools: also congressional regulations on their appellate jurisdiction (i.e. almost all the cases they hear), as explicitly authorized by the Constitution.
For example, Congress could - and should! - enact a law stripping all appellate jurisdiction whenever a majority of sitting justices are ones nominated by presidents who took office despite losing the popular vote.
Yes, presidents like GWB and DJT, who DID NOT reflect the will of the people yet chose five of our nine justices.
Thanks!
So, three tools that our weak, feckless Dem leadership are afraid to use. 😡🤬😡
PerryM ✅... and I ask of Alito, who has the authority, according to the Constitution, to impeach any or all Supreme Court Justices? Sam, Clearence should be first and then you second, and John Roberts third! If that's what you wish for ethics violators, so be it!
.. and I am not educated in Law. I am a retired Proctologist and know an asshole when I see or hear one!
Weasel
Judy Olo 🚫⚠️kakistocracy🌊@georgetakei
He sounds like Stephen Miller. Period! (the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned)
He sounds like Stephen Miller. Period! (the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned)
bedast@georgetakei This, alone, should disqualify Justice Alito as Article III clearly states the opposite.
Joe ❌👑@georgetakei Did Justice Alito read the Constitution? "In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make." What? Regulations? That Congress makes? Determining what cases the Supreme Court can rule on?
schoolingdiana@georgetakei Neither does the Constitution gives SCOTUS the right to police Congress; it literally limits them to fairly strict parameters on Congressional acts, which this 2022-2023 iteration has torpedoed out of the water.
John S. Wilkins@georgetakei What provisions in the Constitution cover the regulation of the Supreme Court?
Vacuumfountain@georgetakei Nor does it say anything about SCOTUS determining the constitutionality of laws. They took that power for themselves, and the other two branches didn't say no.
Noah Cook@georgetakei You know what phrase regulators love to hear? I mean like it makes us grin like a leopard stalking through the grass towards a gazelle?
Someone saying "you lack the authority to regulate me".
@georgetakei Maybe Justice Alito should read the Constitution, Article III, section 2, which reads "In all cases affecting ambassadors, ... In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, AND UNDER SUCH REGULATIONS AS THE CONGRESS SHALL MAKE."
How scary is it when one of the 9 SCOTUS Justices hasn't even read the Constitution?
How scary is it when one of the 9 SCOTUS Justices hasn't even read the Constitution?
Arotrios@georgetakei I know you know this, but he's flat out lying.
Article 3, Section 1 first line:
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish
The court itself was established through an act of Congress, the Judiciary Act of 1789, and Congress has had the power to both set the number of judges and impeach them throughout the entire history of the United States. Alioto should be disbarred for even suggesting such a facetious legal theory.
The 3rd Article of the U.S. Constitution
SECTION. 1. The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
Robes1@georgetakei Alito is on an absolutely unbridled, drunken power binge, free to remake the country in whatever dystopian Christian mold he wants.
And conversely, the country is free to ignore and #defy an unbridled, power-drunk, theofascist #SupremeCourt that has no purse and no army.
It was nice while it lasted, while it was respected, and while it actually protected people's rights. Maybe it can be pulled back from the brink... as you (@georgetakei) said, that will require willingness to #ExpandTheCourt (to correct #Republicans' court packing) and to #impeach and remove the clearly corrupt among the justices.
John Yates@georgetakei Nope! Impeach him. #Politics
Excentricat@georgetakei They don’t need regulated. They need impeached and removed.
(((Ttown)))🌐✌@georgetakei
There is no balance of power when one part of government isn't regulated.
There is no balance of power when one part of government isn't regulated.
microveldt@georgetakei and no provision in the Constitution gives the court authority for Judicial Review, if you want to REALLY be a textualist. Judicial Review was established by case law.
Jason Petersen (he)@georgetakei lucky for him we don’t need the constitution’s permission to shrink the court
@georgetakei
"It is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self-defense. In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates."
-- James Madison, Federalist 51
"It is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self-defense. In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates."
-- James Madison, Federalist 51
GeezerTek@georgetakei Not sure I trust this congress to do any policing, but someone or something needs to have oversight.
Alan Sill@georgetakei I would like to remind Justice Alito that nothing in the Constitution says we have to pay the Supreme Court members anything, either.
Losfromcp
Bradley Stowers@georgetakei All branches of government are co-equal, but some branches are more co-equal than others.
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist@georgetakei This is an announcement that if a major of SCOTUS agrees, they will stoke the law down.
The Barking Shark@georgetakei Suddenly Alito is worried about the constitution...
@georgetakei checks and balances - all 3 ways
Not A Bird@georgetakei If Congress actually cared about anything, they would throw his ass out and show how it is done.
GutotitoDude needs to check his pocket constitution, if he plans to make that argument. Most of the powers that the SCOTUS has have been assumed over the past dozen or so decades -- there's precisely nothing in the main text that establishes it as an equal branch of government, or as the supreme decider on the constitutionality of laws. If Alito brings the constitution into this, he may lose his court altogether.
D1g1talDrag0n@georgetakei it sounds to me that Alito is unaware of the laws of the United States. I call for a vote if no confidence.
@georgetakei Exactly
B Thoreau 🛸@georgetakei The stench is overwhelming. 🤮🤢🤮
Scott Knowles@georgetakei No provision in Constitution prohibits or prevents Congress from oversight and regulation of SCOTUS for ethical and criminal conduct. The absence giving of prohibiting Congress from such authority opens the debate, but favors as a role for Congress over SCOTUS, asit does for federal court judges. They should exercise it knowing SCOTUS will likely reject it. Popcorn anyone?
Pēteris Krišjānis@georgetakei this is what you get for having constitution that is essentially is a shit.
CarRamrod@georgetakei Judicial review is found nowhere in the Constitution and wasn't created until Marbury v Madison. Their authority exists until we decide no more of this.
Steffen Christensen@georgetakei Remember back when we had government of the people, by the people, for the people?
Good times, good times...
Martha@georgetakei
Cherry-picking hypocrite.
Cherry-picking hypocrite.
Congress is not attempting to police SCOTUS, rather, SCOTUS has shown us that they are incapable of self-regulation. Alito seems to be saying that he can legally participate in any level of bribery he wishes and no one can do anything about it. If his statement here is correct, it's time for an amendment.
Barrett@georgetakei Careful here, folks.
The entire point of an appointed, for-life bench on the Supreme Court is to slow the rate of change in the nation. The Executive and Legislative branches may swing wildly every few years, but the Court provides a stabilizing element. If we change that now because we don't like the direction of the current Court, it will come back to bite us when it inevitably swings the other way.
JackEnrod@georgetakei He just admitted he and his court cohorts are doing illicit things. “Above the law”.
JerameeThis is exactly the kind of lying by omission that conservatives do all the time. Just because it's not specifically listed as a power in the Constitution doesn't mean the Constitution bars Congress from regulating them. Alito knows this. He doesn't state this because, like all conservatives, he routinely lies to his base.
libraryogre@georgetakei "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."
Which would say that they get to make laws about all parts of government.
Helena@georgetakei Quite an inane comment from someone "interpreting" the constitution to regulate women and restrict our freedom.
@huggydude🇺🇦@georgetakei I think Alito is going to find out since he is fucking around.....they are a branch of the government not dictators of the law. #fucktheSupremeCourt
Wolleysegap@georgetakei Nice warmup to the 2024 election. It doesn't matter who you vote in, we are in charge
Kerry Ann 🏳️⚧️ (she/her)@georgetakei This is a slippery slope. No provision in the Constitution gives the Supreme Court the express right to declare laws or executive orders unconstitutional -- that right was only established and *adopted by convention* with Marbury v. Madison (1803).
So much of the ideas we take as "rock solid constitutional values" are in fact just conventions; which is why breaking conventions just for the sake of winning a short term political point threatens a constitutional (small-c) crisis, and a political crisis of legitimacy.
"Crisis of legitimacy" is just a fancy way of saying: "We don't actually have a government, we have thugs with guns."
@georgetakei Article II, Section 4. If a civil officer can ever be completely unbeholden to a check or balance we may as well anoint them with oils. All judges are still subject to criminal statutes. Convict a Justice of a felony and Congress would be hard-pressed to not impeach in the case they did not step down.