The Supreme Court, which has become a lawless crime organization, has outlived its usefulness. It needs to be broken down and redone. It should be 5 and 5, an equal split. Allowing the president to stack it with people who take bribes has to come to an end.
No, there's a reason it's an odd number: to avoid tie votes and accomplishing nothing. The answer is to expand it to 13 justices, reflecting the current number of appellate circuits.
I'd also support age limits and a binding code of ethics.
Until gerrymandering is outlawed and EVERY state draws its lines through a non-partisan body, the Democrats have to fight fire with fire. And anyone preventing it -- like the Senate president in Maryland -- is, in effect, a partner with Trump.
Excellent article Brian! I just wish that everyone would realize the urgency of the moment. We are in a fight to save our democracy and to many Democrats are complacent and want to play nice and that's not going to cut it! Not anymore!
Jeff is right. Roberts in particular has wanted to gut the voting rights act from the beginning. We can thank the Bush boys for three of these horrible justices lets not forget. They are the worst court in a 100 years or at least in the last 60. The last really good court was the Warren Court which the GOP claimed was too activist. Now that they are doing it they no longer think that. Funny thing that. Time for the gloves to come off. There are no queensbury rules this is a street fight and the sooner our leaders realize that the better. Thanks Brian as always for reminding us that the GOP has no desire for fairness or equity.
Amen, Brian. You explain this issue better than anyone else. I just wish that Democratic leaders could comprehend the danger we’re in and act with determination. To hell with “norms!”
I am apoplectic about Virginia’s legislature refusing to defy their Supreme Court decision. If this applied to Republicans, they would find a way.
At some point we need to stop pretending this court is operating above politics.
We all saw this coming.
Republicans spent decades capturing the judiciary precisely so moments like this would happen — and establishment Democrats kept acting like preserving institutional norms mattered more than confronting what was happening in plain sight.
Now we have a court that bends principles whenever Republican power is threatened and suddenly discovers “restraint” or “originalism” only when it serves the outcome they want.
Democrats should have expanded the court when they had the chance. Instead they kept trying to play by rules the other side abandoned years ago.
IMPEACH AND DUMP TRAITORS, NAZIS PEDOPHILE PREDATORS AND ENABLERS , IMPERIALIST CRIMINALS, WAR MONGERS, CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL GRIFTERS, FASCIST PIGS, FRAUDSTERS, RACIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. RELEASE ALL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND JAIL CON RTRUMP. AVOID CON RTRUMP'S AND THE REPUBLICON'S RECESSION AND DEPRESSION. FIX CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR THE FAIR DEAL, NOT THE RAW DEAL. VOTE BLUE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. STOP THE RTRUMP OLIGARCHY. BOYCOTT CRIMINAL RTRUMP & ELON- THE NAZIS. INVOKE 25th AMENDMENT AND DUMP CON REPUBLICONS.
The six “ justices” appointed by GOP presidents are corrupt individuals who accept bribes illegally; who vote against the Constitution; who are racist, sexist despicable creatures
Our justices owe us so much more. They are way too enamored of comity and decorum. They should be out in the streets protesting every day instead of impotently pontificating from behind the dais. Congress too for that matter.
This is not the Supreme Court -- it is 6 fascists in black robes...better to be known as SFIBR.
It's the supremacy court
Mary Trump always refers to them--accurately in my view--as "the corrupt, illegitimate super-majority of the Supreme Court."
The Supreme Court, which has become a lawless crime organization, has outlived its usefulness. It needs to be broken down and redone. It should be 5 and 5, an equal split. Allowing the president to stack it with people who take bribes has to come to an end.
No, there's a reason it's an odd number: to avoid tie votes and accomplishing nothing. The answer is to expand it to 13 justices, reflecting the current number of appellate circuits.
I'd also support age limits and a binding code of ethics.
Agree it needs to be an odd number but I like his idea of equal split, all though they should be non partisan.
Age limits, term limits and an oversight body who enforces the code of ethics! Break one you are OUT!
Until gerrymandering is outlawed and EVERY state draws its lines through a non-partisan body, the Democrats have to fight fire with fire. And anyone preventing it -- like the Senate president in Maryland -- is, in effect, a partner with Trump.
Agree 100%!
Excellent article Brian! I just wish that everyone would realize the urgency of the moment. We are in a fight to save our democracy and to many Democrats are complacent and want to play nice and that's not going to cut it! Not anymore!
Jeff is right. Roberts in particular has wanted to gut the voting rights act from the beginning. We can thank the Bush boys for three of these horrible justices lets not forget. They are the worst court in a 100 years or at least in the last 60. The last really good court was the Warren Court which the GOP claimed was too activist. Now that they are doing it they no longer think that. Funny thing that. Time for the gloves to come off. There are no queensbury rules this is a street fight and the sooner our leaders realize that the better. Thanks Brian as always for reminding us that the GOP has no desire for fairness or equity.
Corrupt, corrupt corrupt… It’s just amazing to see the obviousness of this goddamn administration… Oh yeah Epstein files‼️
Ordered it! Thank you
These justices have become rogue, hence we need to change the whole setup to giving them term limits, to end this corruption.
Supreme corruption is not just or fair. The Court and the GOP are turning the country into a "Turd" world country.
Amen, Brian. You explain this issue better than anyone else. I just wish that Democratic leaders could comprehend the danger we’re in and act with determination. To hell with “norms!”
I am apoplectic about Virginia’s legislature refusing to defy their Supreme Court decision. If this applied to Republicans, they would find a way.
At some point we need to stop pretending this court is operating above politics.
We all saw this coming.
Republicans spent decades capturing the judiciary precisely so moments like this would happen — and establishment Democrats kept acting like preserving institutional norms mattered more than confronting what was happening in plain sight.
Now we have a court that bends principles whenever Republican power is threatened and suddenly discovers “restraint” or “originalism” only when it serves the outcome they want.
Democrats should have expanded the court when they had the chance. Instead they kept trying to play by rules the other side abandoned years ago.
IMPEACH AND DUMP TRAITORS, NAZIS PEDOPHILE PREDATORS AND ENABLERS , IMPERIALIST CRIMINALS, WAR MONGERS, CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL GRIFTERS, FASCIST PIGS, FRAUDSTERS, RACIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. RELEASE ALL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND JAIL CON RTRUMP. AVOID CON RTRUMP'S AND THE REPUBLICON'S RECESSION AND DEPRESSION. FIX CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR THE FAIR DEAL, NOT THE RAW DEAL. VOTE BLUE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. STOP THE RTRUMP OLIGARCHY. BOYCOTT CRIMINAL RTRUMP & ELON- THE NAZIS. INVOKE 25th AMENDMENT AND DUMP CON REPUBLICONS.
The six “ justices” appointed by GOP presidents are corrupt individuals who accept bribes illegally; who vote against the Constitution; who are racist, sexist despicable creatures
Wow the Supreme Court whom we used to trust and depend on has turned on us now they are as corrupt as the trump family
Our justices owe us so much more. They are way too enamored of comity and decorum. They should be out in the streets protesting every day instead of impotently pontificating from behind the dais. Congress too for that matter.
That fake court is vile and vulgar and needs to be destroyed.