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Posted on 05/28/2024 9:57:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
Democrats are so desperate to keep the Supreme Court from torpedoing their lawfare efforts against former President Donald Trump that members like Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., are openly vowing to launch a coordinated attack on the judicial branch if they don’t get their way.
Last week, The New York Times published a smear piece on Justice Samuel Alito “to indict the conservative judge as a partisan ideologue corrupted by far-right politics” all because an “Appeal to Heaven” flag flew outside his New Jersey beach home last year, my colleague Tristan Justice explained. The story came days after another hit piece alleged Alito was compromised because of an upside-down American flag flown by his wife.
Raskin pounced on the stories, however, arguing on MSNBC that if Alito doesn’t “heed the calls to recuse himself from the [Jan. 6-related] case,” there should be a federal ethics panel made up of circuit judges to which Raskin and other Democrats can whine and undermine the Supreme Court any time they don’t get their way. This is in addition to House Democrats’ newly announced task force, of which Raskin is a member, that exists to overhaul the court through legislation and rhetoric.
Raskin took his attacks one step further, last week encouraging Americans to “fall out of love” with the Supreme Court and arguing the institution can only be trusted once Democrats have control of its operations.
[T]o my mind, we’ve gotta organize the people in America. That’s where the power comes from. And we will, if and when we win back the House and the Senate and the White House. We will look at the Supreme Court and figure out what can be done about that extremely corrupted and contaminated body.
Fellow Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse reiterated Raskin’s message in a post on X saying, “Yes we will, brother. Yes we will.”
But the Supreme Court isn’t “corrupted” or “contaminated.” It’s simply not acting as footsoldiers of the executive branch or an arm of the Democrat Party. And that’s the real reason Raskin and other Democrats are hell-bent on playing up the Alito nonstory.
The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether obstruction charges can be levied against Jan. 6 protesters — and could possibly derail one of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s cases against Trump involving presidential immunity. By falsely connecting the “Appeal to Heaven” flag to so-called “right-wing extremism” rather than its actual history of the Revolutionary War, Democrats can smear the court — as Raskin put it — as a “corrupted” and “contaminated” branch of government that can no longer function independently but must be supervised by Democrat lawmakers.
In fact, the Democrats’ rosily named “court reform” task force is working to expand the bench, create term limits for justices, force the Supreme Court to create a code of ethics based on partisan public input, and create an independent review board to hear ethics complaints lobbed against the justices.
But as Alexander Hamilton warned in Federalist 78, the judicial branch “is in continual jeopardy of being overpowered, awed, or influenced” if tied to either the executive or legislative branch.
“Though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the Judiciary remains truly distinct from both the Legislature and the Executive,” Hamilton wrote. “And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the Judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.”
Roberts probably filled his pants when he heard this.
Their garden variety bullying hasn’t worked so far so now they have to take a page out of the Hitler Youth play book
And where is the GOP pointing this out? Crickets as usual from those losers.
...and after all of those plans are implemented, _then_ they will apply their loftly standards against on those they deem opposed to their views, of course.
It’s getting way past time for conservatives to push back. Virtually every Democrat running for office is an extreme partisan activist... we need a few hundred of our own (not actual ‘activists’ per se, just those unwilling to compromise), if only to just hold the line.
Once again, the Left is creating the narrative and rules of the debate, while the GOP stands around saying "don't be silly!"
The fact is that even the Left is admitting that courts can be, have been corrupted to a partisan political tool.
The American Right need its own "court reform" narrative.
One big one should be - the elimination of the DC District Federal Court system. Congress created it, and Congress can eliminate it.
The DC Federal District courts have become the kangaroo court of the permanent Fed.gov bureaucracy and DHS, especially the DOJ/FBI who now have Stasi-like powers.
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We need Ted Cruz to jump on this. Along with Jim Jordan and I believe there is something they can do to congressional democrats threatening the Supreme Court.
That was a good catch!!
Well high time the Right stop sitting around and take care of business and do whatever is necessary to the Democrats!
F them. This is not acceptable. It is intimidation.
Congress has no power over the SCOTUS. The executive, congress and SCOTUS are separate and equal branches of government. Dirty commie Raskin accusing Alito of extremism is laughable.
Imagine if Trump gets reelected and appoints several new justices. Thomas could retire. Sotomayor is sick. We could have a 7-2 majority.
Insurrection is okay if it’s done by college loan deadbeat fags. The FIBBIES will probably help them block traffic and Joe Pedo will give them all medals.
Is this “reaping the whirlwind”?
This is what happens when you fill the court with sissy pants pancake mashers.
I think it’s clear that everybody who is a law abiding patriot knows that we’re in a Civil War. We’ve been prepared for this for several years so I say bring it on.
When Trump becomes President, these people must be flown immediately out of the USA to a remote island prison for their treasonous conduct. Keep them there indefinitely. Keep them alive as long as possible but keep them completely cut off from contact with the outside world. They need to live the rest of their lives as traitors without a country...people with no hope of release or rescue. The best outcome is to keep them very much alive but always wishing they were not.
It was fine with them until the court swung right..............
Alito is one of 2 definite votes against them and they know it. They think they can use this flag BS to eliminate his vote or marginalize his vote as pressure for the others. It is nothing but intimidation of the SC as sure as doxxing the Justices 2 years ago.
SCOTUS is their weapon to force their will on us when they lose. How dare you take that from them? It’s theirs by divine right.
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