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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by laklak » Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:45 pm

Prayers are only useful AFTER school shootings, along with Thoughts.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by rasetsu » Fri Jul 22, 2022 3:41 pm

Speaking of the weak-minded....

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Post by Tero » Sat Jul 23, 2022 10:14 pm

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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Svartalf » Sat Jul 23, 2022 11:57 pm

Ouch, so right, and wrong
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Post by Tero » Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:04 pm

Court bill proposed:
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The Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization Act (Term), would establish 18-year terms for supreme court justices and establish a process for the president to appoint a new justice every two years. After an 18-year term, justices would be retired from active judicial service.

If the bill were to take effect, the nine justices now on the court would essentially be forced into senior status in order of reverse seniority, as jurists were appointed under the new mechanism.
The bill is unlikely to pass. Republicans have vigorously shot down any attempts to change the makeup of the supreme court. Even if the measure passed the Democratic-controlled House, it would probably die in the Senate, where it would need the vote of 10 Republicans in addition to all Democrats to overcome the filibuster.
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Post by rasetsu » Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:11 pm

Unless they can convince Manchin and Synema to support a carve-out.

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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Svartalf » Wed Jul 27, 2022 5:02 pm

Tero wrote:
Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:04 pm
Court bill proposed:
CNN
The Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization Act (Term), would establish 18-year terms for supreme court justices and establish a process for the president to appoint a new justice every two years. After an 18-year term, justices would be retired from active judicial service.

If the bill were to take effect, the nine justices now on the court would essentially be forced into senior status in order of reverse seniority, as jurists were appointed under the new mechanism.
The bill is unlikely to pass. Republicans have vigorously shot down any attempts to change the makeup of the supreme court. Even if the measure passed the Democratic-controlled House, it would probably die in the Senate, where it would need the vote of 10 Republicans in addition to all Democrats to overcome the filibuster.
YOu bet all Nine make a collective suit against that one, just for the purpose of demolishing it in the end?
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Post by rainbow » Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:28 pm

Tero wrote:
Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:04 pm
Court bill proposed:
CNN
The Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization Act (Term), would establish 18-year terms for supreme court justices and establish a process for the president to appoint a new justice every two years. After an 18-year term, justices would be retired from active judicial service.

If the bill were to take effect, the nine justices now on the court would essentially be forced into senior status in order of reverse seniority, as jurists were appointed under the new mechanism.
The bill is unlikely to pass. Republicans have vigorously shot down any attempts to change the makeup of the supreme court. Even if the measure passed the Democratic-controlled House, it would probably die in the Senate, where it would need the vote of 10 Republicans in addition to all Democrats to overcome the filibuster.
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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Tero » Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:35 pm

Filibuster, Manchin Sinema.
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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by rainbow » Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:35 am

Tero wrote:
Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:35 pm
Filibuster, Manchin Sinema.
It just requires a majority in Congress, which the Democrats control.

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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Tero » Thu Jul 28, 2022 11:54 am

The senate has all these rules and it would spend a year figuring out if they are allowed to do it. Then the Supreme Court would come in and say it's not allowed. Like Hawaii took some 10 years.
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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sun Jul 31, 2022 4:28 am

Not to forget that religious freedom/liberty in the context of American right wing Christians is in reality congruent with reactionary conservative evangelical Christian dominion. Hallelujah.

'"Embarrassment to the Supreme Court": Alito gloats and taunts critics of his anti-abortion ruling'
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked world leaders who criticized his anti-abortion ruling last month and decried what he called a "hostility to religion" in his first public comments since the decision.

Alito, who authored the court's majority opinion in the Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade, bragged during a surprise appearance at a religious conference hosted by the Notre Dame Law School's Religious Liberty Initiative in Rome last week that he wrote the opinion in what he described as the case "whose name may not be spoken."

"I had the honor this term of writing I think the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law," he said.

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Alito during his remarks alleged that "religious liberty is under attack" even though the impenetrable conservative majority on the Supreme Court gave religious rights groups their biggest wins in generations this term: striking down abortion rights, siding with a public high school football coach who prayed on the field after games, and banning Maine from excluding religious schools from tuition assistance programs.

"It is hard to convince people that religious liberty is worth defending if they don't think that religion is a good thing that deserves protection," Alito said.

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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Sean Hayden » Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:26 am

It's heartless to protect insanity. May God introduce this clown to his real children.

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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Svartalf » Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:29 am

Can we please abort that SOB after term? I hear there are a number of excellent molybdotherapy specialists in texas...
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