To: Jim Noble
Congress cannot regulate the Court if the Court simply finds such regulation "in conflict" with some other part of the Constitution, which is an easy-as-pie no-brainer when you get to define any part of the Constitution as anything you want.
Impeachment isn't possible as long as 34 Dems are in the Senate. The SC can do anything it wants until you have a 2/3 maajority.
You think the Dems filibustering judicial appointments is bad. It takes a constitutional amendment to pass any law that five members of the SC don't like. And then they can still say it doesn't mean what it says.
This is why Dred Scott led directly to Civil War.
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
I certainly agree that talk of impeachment is foolish when we do not have 51% of Congress who want even to regulate the court, much less 67% of the Senate to convict these judicial miscreants.
But IF 51% of some future Congress wanted to make binding regulations on the Supreme Court, they are explicitly empowered to do so in Article III, section 2, and although the Supreme Court could issue contrary "rulings" I'm sure they woud have no force or effect.
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