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.

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.

  • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee
    19·
    1 year ago

    Seriously, the point of having 3 supposedly co-equal branches is so each has oversight. You can’t let this dereliction of duty go unchallenged or we have to scrap the whole thing.

    • AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social
      123·
      1 year ago

      I mean…. We have to scrap the whole thing. We all know it. Let’s stop dancing around it and start figuring out what the next thing is.

      • TheHighRoad@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been saying this for a long while. We need a new constitution at this point, and that is OK. The founders knew this, and also took time to point out that it will be ugly, just like it was for them. The shit show we have now is enough to make me lean into antinatalism, which is a stance I never could have imagined as a younger person.

    • Methylman@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.”