Inside of two weeks, SCOTUS has given itself authority to:
- cancel legislation it doesn't like
- overrule regulatory bodies it doesn't agree with
- and after the fact legalize actions taken by a President.
Given that it's already got final say on the actions of the rest of the judiciary, that now consolidates the power of all three branches of American government under the authority of the Supreme Court.
In other words? It's a judicial coup.
Revolutions have been fought over less.
He has immunity for much more than that. I think he is too weak to take the steps necessary to resolve this though.
@the_Effekt @ArneBab Again - he doesn't.
What's an official act? Who decides that? Show me the law that says the President can *redacted* SCOTUS members because if you can't? That's up to a judge to decide; and oh btw? SCOTUS can override any judge in the land if they want to hear the appeal.
@AnarchoNinaWrites Can the SCOTUS decide on their own firing?
After they were fired?
The executive orders of the president can do quite a lot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order#Legal_conflicts
@the_Effekt
"In 1935, the Supreme Court overturned five of Franklin Roosevelt's executive orders (6199, 6204, 6256, 6284a and 6855)"
Very first line of your own link.
@AnarchoNinaWrites These didn’t throw out the SCOTUS. Are they the SCOTUS, if the president threw them out?
On the other hand: would then the rule of law take the final nail in its coffin and civil war break out?
And will that happen anyway if Trump wins?
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That's what they've been discussing up and down, left to right on CNN in a circular fashion just minutes ago and none of that matters, because, well, SCOTUS ultimately will decide whatever the hell they want and deem to be in favour of MAGA fascists.
I mean - sure it's hard to swallow, but that's a coup d'état, done by SCOTUS. Nothing less will fit.
@GNUmatic sounds like the CIA playbook of South America, but now turned against democracy in the USA.
And no, this does not mean that it’s OK!
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Yes, even though fascist playbook would be more to my taste, but in the end it doesn't matter. The rich will get their way and the fascists can do whatever the hell they want.
I mean - go kill somebody, pretend it was done in order to MAGA, appeal to SCOTUS and I'm sure they will declare that not only to be your constitutional right, but make it your duty.
@GNUmatic In related news: Hungary took over leadership of the EU for 6 month. They set the slogan for those 6 months:
Make Europe Great Again.
That does not feel good.
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@GNUmatic While we’re on the topic:
If you have friends who are democrat and they don’t run #Freenet / #Hyphanet yet: now’s the time to invite them.
https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html
Remind them that we also wouldn’t have expected that we’d need Hyphanet for information about #Abortion:
USK@y8RVnrZnrLbGclCQ95lWigmElB0gW5lBqoihqE71L1k,8ujBBKiPW6CpF1GRSSXMFAZFOvjMFdrE6myDKjNuBpA,AQACAAE/embarrassing-wiki/7/wiki/Abortion.html
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Bookmarked. Very likely a requirement for a lot more really soon. /o\
@DrOtto @GNUmatic @the_Effekt @ArneBab My friend, are you seriously trying to tell me that the same administration that just passed a bunch of laws to PROTECT Scotus judges and punish protestors with federal time after Dobbs, are going to ignore the court?
What if a magic unicorn showed up and farted so hard Trump and all 6 fascist SCOTUS judges died?
We can do this all day.
@DrOtto @GNUmatic @the_Effekt @ArneBab It's happened twice. Andrew Jackson said "no I'm going to genocide these Indigenous People anyway and fuck you." And FDR said "if you keep fucking with my ability to govern I will pack so many pinkos onto this court it might end capitalism."
We're a little short on folks in power willing to do that.
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