I think they’re still upset at people daring to call them partisan just because they’ve been transparently acting in an extremely partisan way.
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All. 83. Of. Them.
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Time to pass some regulations on SCOTUS.
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The Constitutional remedy for a corrupt or incompetent SCOTUS Justice is impeachment and removal but we all know how frequently that works.
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Huh? They were appointed by the Chief Justice. There’s your authority, dimwits.
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Which is why at the very least a code of conduct (and maybe some term limits) would be helpful. If there is a set of guidelines that explicitly forbade certain behaviors, then impeachment would be a workable solution.
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As fucked-up as the current state of the court is (and it’s really fucked up) this is still a day worth commemorating: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson formal induction today marks the first time in the 233-year-history of the court when white men didn’t comprise a majority.
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FTA:
Now law professors are faced with a quandary: How—and why—should you teach law to students while the Supreme Court openly changes the meaning of the Constitution to align with the GOP?
Huh, yeah…
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Professors have had enough.
“Woah! Okay, watcha gonna do about it, professors? (Hee hee hee!).”
/sneering anti-education conservatives
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This is like a different version of the “who agrees to stay in order to hold the line?” ala the people (Kelly, Mattis, Mullen, etc.) who saw themselves as sane, mitigating influences on TFG administration.
What’s going to happen if there’s an exodus of decent, fair-minded, intellectually capable professors who quit an increasingly toxic work environment, including but not limited to the material they are being asked to teach… material that may resemble fairy tales?
Canary. Coal mine.
Rule of law. Breakdown of law.
(With full recognition the U.S. already has two legal systems.)
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They shouldn’t quit (of course). They should point out the fallacies imposed by a far-right SCOTUS, get students to see and think through them, thereby fanning the flame of ethical conscience in the hopes that some of their students will go on to fight for a better SCOTUS.
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I like your optimism.
Just learned, listening to this segment today, that SCOTUS justices rarely if ever recuse themselves from cases:
… the context was the notable and rare recusal by our newest justice re this:
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A great appointment!
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