Scorpion & the toad…, tiger by the tail…, don’t complain about the monster you created jackass.
#Alito says #SCOTUS can’t stem emergency appeals & voices concern over #Trump’s rhetoric.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the escalating volume of emergency appeals before the court isn’t a good thing, but he adds there’s little the court can do to change the trajectory.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://apnews.com/article/alito-supreme-court-trump-emergency-docket-book-6d9bee292b228c2624377f628eb38760?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension
Even this is giving #Alito and #SCOTUS too much grace (as you may full well know).
These 6 black-robed tyrants are pursuing a judicial philosophy that centers on an extreme far-right #republican party ruling the world unopposed for all eternity.
Hopefully after the #midterms we can begin to pursue court reform.
Tyrants? They have no power other than rhetoric. Some tyrants.
We ask them what they think and they tell us. That's the long and short of the major role of the Supreme Court in the US system, and that was very intentional specifically so that they could not become tyrants.
If we didn't decide to care what they had to say, that would be that, they could yell at clouds all day.
They have no power of their own.
They interpret laws, but they don't enforce their interpretations. They can't: they don't have executive authority.
That is core to the US design, keeping enforcement authority out of the hands of those interpreters as a check on their power.
As it was explained: "The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments."
@volkris You appear to be trying to move the goal posts to Chief Justice Roberts leaping from his chair to enact corruption. No one has ever suggested that to you.
The Roberts Court has a long, public history of ABUSING its power to interpret the laws. They have massive influence over the sword and the purse, because they are reinterpreting the laws governing the sword and the purse, and freeing up corrupt regimes like Trump to act upon their preferred policies.
@volkris Chief among these abuses are the ruling that President Trump must be allowed to use his office to commit crimes, and the Court’s continuous assaults on voting rights and abortion rights.
Honestly if you believe the Roberts Court has just been calling balls and strikes this entire time, then you must be foolish or ignorant or a Trumper. And which of those you are is frankly of no concern to me, since we won’t be communicating any further.
Do you realize that court rulings and orders are ignored, not just by this president but by legislative and executive branches throughout history?
The concept of contempt of court exists in recognition that folks can and do ignore the courts, and at the moment there are significant judicial processes ongoing as the courts struggle with their lack of authority to enforce their own rulings.
I never once said the Roberts Court has just been calling balls and strikes as that's beside the point, that all they can do is issue opinions. That is the limit of their authority in the US system.
Whether any court is right or wrong in any ruling, whether they are angels or the most corrupt evar, their authority remains limited to the opinions that do get ignored by the other branches as they see fit.
@volkris What are you talking about? The judicial branch of the federal government has incredible power. They interpret the laws and can determine what is and isn’t permissible and instruct lower courts how to proceed. They have abused this power for years to create outcomes favorable to Donald Trump and his party.
We need court reform to rein them back in, to force them to once again be purely bipartisan and not pick winners and losers based on their political views.