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Satan’s Public Defender's avatar

There are two things that I always emphasize to anyone willing to listen about the Supreme Court:

1). The idea of nine judges is bullshit and court packing is justified because of the simple reason that there are 15 judicial jurisdictions on the federal level. Adding six new judges RIGHT NOW could easily be argued as creating proper representation for said jurisdictions and would make sense.

2). And I can’t emphasize this enough, SCOTUS CANNOT ENFORCE THEIR RULINGS! The only reason they have any impact is through passive acceptance via the other branches and the States. If so many people disagree with this shit they could literally say to SCOTUS “thanks for your input, now fuck off” and they can’t do shit about it.

Unfortunately too many people won’t take any of this to heart because that’d be too easy, so carry on with the enabling of the Fascist Theocracy I guess.

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Closed Capetianing's avatar

Re: #2 Actually one state does do this. It’s Texas. They have been continually told by SCOTUS to stop executing people when there is mitigating evidence. Texas appeals says no and kills them anyway.

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Dean C.'s avatar

Also, didn't Andrew Jackson say, IRT the Trail of Tears, "Mr. Marshall has made his decision. Let him carry it out."

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Satan’s Public Defender's avatar

Yep! Even though he was a raging asshole and the proto-Trump, he at least gave us something to work with when it comes to the Death Cult.

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