• downpunxx@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Alito’s trolling because he knows Democrats do not presently have the votes to change a single thing about the Supreme Court

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        The DOJ could find Alito killed 100 schoolchildren and is keeping their remains in his basement where he wears them like meat suits, a SCOTUS appointment is for life, and as the Head of the Judicial branch of the United States government, the only way to remove a Supreme Court justice is impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate, in which, Alito knows, once again, that Democrats do not currently have the votes to do a single thing about it

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          the only way to remove a Supreme Court justice is impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate

          They’re only appointed for life. So if the Supreme Court continues to do things that are not just wildly unpopular, but actively harmful to large groups of people, someone somewhere may become furious enough that they want to help one or more Supreme Justices engage in… shall we say “accelerated involuntary retirement”.

          This isn’t an encouragement of political violence. It’s just that if you do unpopular and harmful things in a system where the vast majority of people have effectively zero legal recourse, someone will eventually seek illegal recourse.