• @NocturnalMorning
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    359 months ago

    We’re almost at the point of nobody cares what the supreme court has to say.

    • @stoly
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      229 months ago

      The SCOTUS has been filled with scumbags since day one, very seriously. They literally caused the civil war and prolonged the great depression. They also gutted the 13th and 14th amendments while deciding that people are militias.

      • @Maggoty
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        59 months ago

        Oh no, one small edit with a huge difference. The people as a whole are the militia. No it doesn’t make any sense. But when you gotta get that gun lobby money for your next private jet Caribbean vacation…

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        A People’s History of the Supreme Court has good info on the terrible track record of the Supreme Court.

        • @stoly
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          19 months ago

          Sounds interesting, will check it out.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s an institution that only exists because the other two branches listen. It doesn’t have an army or a police force. Even the Marshals technically operate under the Executive branch. If the Legislature and Executive branches both decided to ignore them, then Roberts could whine a bunch, but nothing would happen.

      It’s there because of respect built over two centuries and then some. They seem determined to throw it away.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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        19 months ago

        Nah the litigants can apply to lower courts for affirmative relief in compliance with the higher court’s orders and the judges can issues writs of mandamus to any proper officer requiring the officer to do a thing, the failure of which is remedied by a writ of capias, which is a judicial arrest warrant. Would have to be a whole hell of a lot of local judges, cops, marshals, lawyers, clerks, administrators, etc., who would have to ignore it, before nobody ends up in jail or has their assets seized.

        • @BigWheelPowerBrakeSlider
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          49 months ago

          Yeah but if the legislative branch doesn’t fund it and the executive branch doesn’t enforce it, then as my granpappy always said: “a writ ain’t worth a shit.” Lower courts, judges, lawyers, clerks, police, Marshalls, and even administrators notwithstanding.

    • @Wogi
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      49 months ago

      Almost?

      • @[email protected]
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        9 months ago

        We still let them decide what is and isn’t legal. I wish anyone cared that much about what I say.

        • @Maggoty
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          39 months ago

          Well they’re about to decide they get to set regulations, not agencies. So that’s going to be fun and not at all a giant overreach for power.