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1 posted on 07/30/2023 6:17:39 PM PDT by RandFan
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Whatever they do to regulate the Supreme Court would just be shot down as unconstitutional so this is an incredibly dumb battle to even start.


23 posted on 07/30/2023 7:02:48 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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The Constitution does not capitalize Supreme Court from what I see in my 1956 copy of the Constitution.

The Congress might try to designate the Bardstown Ladies Stock Pickers Society as the supreme court.


25 posted on 07/30/2023 7:07:12 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (“Miserably inadequate” people generally vote Democratic.)
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The Constitution does refer to a “chief justice” and states that “judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior...”

So therefore, apparently, as long as John Roberts behaves, he will remain chief justice and his court the supreme court.


28 posted on 07/30/2023 7:13:51 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (“Miserably inadequate” people generally vote Democratic.)
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Murphy is a communist and an idiot that doesn’t have any idea of what his mouth is saying.


30 posted on 07/30/2023 7:20:51 PM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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How ironic the deep-state scoundrel Murphy is promoting the power of Congress.

The only reason is because the deep-state doesn’t control SCOTUS


31 posted on 07/30/2023 7:21:00 PM PDT by PGR88
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You expect a Democrat to know what’s in the constitution?


32 posted on 07/30/2023 7:32:40 PM PDT by Dave911
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Congress can’t no more regulate the ethics of the Supreme Court than the Supreme Court can regulate the ethics of Congress.


33 posted on 07/30/2023 7:56:50 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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Art. 3, Sec. 1.

The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

The Constitution did not create the Judicial Branch; it instructed the Legislature to do so. The Legislature created the Judicial Branch with the Judiciary Act of 1789.

Art. 3, Sec. 2:

In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

The Constitution states explicitly that the Congress does have regulatory authority over the Judicial Branch.

The Congress can do away with the Circuit Courts and District Courts. The Legislature can do away with all but one justice, or authorize however many it chooses. There have been as few as 5 and as many as 10. The number currently stands at 9.

The number was raised from 9 to 10 after Lincoln got a big scare in the Prize Cases, with his war effort surviving by a 5-4 vote. With 10 justices, 4 appointed by Lincoln, he was secure for the remainder of the war. After Democrat Andrew Johnson became President, the number was lowered to 7 by attrition, assuring that Johnson would never nominate a justice. After Republican Grant assumed office, the number was restored to 9, allowing Grant to fill vacancies. There it has remained since.

The vast majority of cases at the Supreme Court are on Appellate jurisdiction. The Congress can remove the Appellate jurisdiction to hear any or all such cases. In cases of original jurisdiction, the Supreme Court acts as a trial court. That almost never happens.

The Congress controls the funding of the Judicial Branch as well as of the Executive Branch.

35 posted on 07/30/2023 10:26:16 PM PDT by woodpusher
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