Congressional Democrats have pushed for ethics reform legislation, efforts publicly rejected by Samuel Alito

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    They can call for him to resign all they want. He won’t. And he doesn’t have to. We have a SCOTUS who is accountable to no one and can get away with anything. They’re like the Mullahs of Iran.

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          Bingo. Each branch is supposed to act as a check on the power of the other two, but the current Congress would rather use its impeachment power to go after Hunter Biden - excuse me, Joe Biden - for being a Democrat.

          By all rights, Thomas should have earned immediate impeachment and removal the moment his frequent acceptance of bribes came to light. But bribery is no scandal for Republicans anymore. For most of their supporters, literally the only crime a Republican can commit is agreeing with a Democrat on anything.

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          Not as long as Democrats’ voters stay home because “both parties are the same” and Republicans ’ voters turn out in droves.

          Stop electing Republicans and you’ll see a lot of problems solved.

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        In theory they can do something about it but because in America there’s only 2 parties in power, with one parry’s identity being “opposing the other party no matter what” rather than serving the people of the country, they’ll never reach the consensus necessary to actually remove the judge.

        In most countries there’s multiple parties in power negotiation is typically mandatory and a consensus for action can often be found. In the US that’s virtually impossible because the 2 parties hate each other and there’s no other alternative.

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        Congress could impeach him in a hot second, if most of them weren’t either on his side, or doing the same thing.

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      They have to expand and term limit SCOTUS. Dilute his power, incentivize good behavior and force him out eventually

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      You might be underselling Iran. Even the Supreme Leader can theoretically be removed from office, in the same sense that Thomas can theoretically be removed.