In Trump v. United States (2024) …
That is the most accurate possible name for the supreme court’s recent decision.
Senate shenanigans are always fun to read about.
Also, we learned that they’re “separate but equal” branches of government in school. Let’s see if the legislative branch can claw back some level of influence.
Oy, of course you’re right 😅
“Coequal” I think was the term I remember learning.
…we learned that they’re “separate but equal” branches of government in school.
Samsies. But then again, I don’t think normal people (our founders included) ever expected a willful collusion by a party to stack those branches of government in their favor.
Thank you for pointing that out. It is an important distinction that carries a lot of weight for a lot of people.
More like our founders would be shocked that we haven’t rewritten the Constitution yet, and horrified that centuries later we’re treating it like some divine scripture
There are multiple mechanisms in there to modify or even rewrite the whole thing. They totally saw this coming, they were pretty vocal about it. They hoped future generations would build on their work, not enshrine it
So now introducing bills and doing their fucking jobs is “ambitious?” These sucker’s make like $200k just in base salary and are the most unproductive decade of Congress I think ever.
The Constitutional Amendment is more bulletproof, but a much heavier lift.
This one will end up at SCOTUS, with an expected outcome. Slow moving trains and all.
The Court wouldn’t have jurisdiction. They could overstep their authority anyway but it’d probably become a constitutional crisis.
As opposed to the other times in recent memory that they overstepped their authority, lied about the facts, and rewrote laws and the constitution?
Lying about the facts and rewriting laws isn’t legally prohibited. This is different because it would be the Supreme Court breaking the law if it viewed a case outside its jurisdiction… or, well, it could be different. It depends on whether the other two branches of government just roll over and let them do it. If Schumer is willing to use jurisdictional stripping the Democrats might be willing to go even farther if the Court decided to ignore the law. Hence, constitutional crisis.
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn Trump
Lol
