Easiest answer.
Pack the court. It's perfectly legal. No laws or precedent against it. Just a lack of political will and spine.
Easiest answer.
Pack the court. It's perfectly legal. No laws or precedent against it. Just a lack of political will and spine.
I think the author dismisses packing the court way too easily.
Packing the Court would almost certainly destroy the legitimacy of the federal judiciary in the eyes of many Republicans and would lead to massive resistance from red states.
Well, guess what? McConnell's game of "Keep Away" with Merrick Garland's nomination, combined with these rulings, has already destroyed the legitimacy of the Federal judiciary in the eyes of many. We're already there. Pack the court, then double-dare Republicans to gain control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress again if they want to double-pack it.
Do you mean gutting the voting rights act?
Legalizing bribery?
Eliminating federal regulatory power?
Citizens united?
Couldn't Congress also pass a law restricting the scope of SCOTUS's authority? Seems like that might be the easiest path forward.
SCOTUS doesn't have a mechanism to enforce their decisions. They rely on everyone else accepting their authority and going along with it.
The constitution does give Congress the authority to set the jurisdiction of the courts. They could say that another court like the DC Circuit Court of Appeals would be the court of final appeal for any laws involving SCOTUS.
They don't have the authority to rule on the validity of a constitutional amendment, though that's moot because they do have the authority to rule on the interpretation of it
Constitutional amendments, and forcing lower courts' hands to make compelling but contradicting rulings. I guarantee once Harris is in office, they'll roll back all the God King President bullshit. I don't forsee getting an Amendment from a majority of states for that fix though.
Well, they could certainly rule on the process of the Amendment, but I agree they could not strike down the amendment itself if it proceeds properly.
Side question: what is going on in the thumbnail?
It looks like Justice Roberts is giving Drumpf the most emotional of hand jobs while maintaining eye contact.
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