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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://romancelandia.club/users/herhandsmyhands/statuses/112921023023875419">azteclady (herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:07:16 JST</a><a href="https://romancelandia.club/@herhandsmyhands" title="herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/40998-48-20221127084807.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="azteclady" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">azteclady</a><div><a href="https://romancelandia.club/@herhandsmyhands/112918389824000577" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>The inimitable Elie Mystal on the  current initiatives to curb SCOTUS overreach and protect democracy.</p><p>"The road toward court reform leads to court expansion or it leads to nowhere. Biden, and now Schumer, are willing to take the first steps."</p><p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/no-kings-act-schumer-trump-immunity/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/no-kings-act-schumer-trump-immunity/</a></p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/USPolitics" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/SCOTUS" rel="tag">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/NoKings" rel="tag">#NoKings</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/2024Election" rel="tag">#2024Election</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3945402#notice-7707473">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-11-06T12:07:16+09:00" title="Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:07:16 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://romancelandia.club/@herhandsmyhands/112921023023875419" rel="external" title="Sent from romancelandia.club via ActivityPub">romancelandia.club</a></span></span><a href="https://romancelandia.club/@herhandsmyhands/112921023023875419">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3419980">From the link in the post:I think it is fair to say that the Supreme Court’s decision, on the last day of its term, to grant Donald Trump absolute immunity from prosecution for crimes he may have committed while acting as president has woken the Democratic party up from its long, deferential slumber. For the first time in 40 years, the party appears ready to take on the Republicans who run the Supreme Court, specifically over the issue of whether the president of the United States is subject to the laws of the country.</a></label><br><a href="https://romancelandia.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/920/977/242/389/226/original/c1a3c1aad60bb46f.png" rel="external">https://romancelandia.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/920/977/242/389/226/original/c1a3c1aad60bb46f.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3419981">More from the link in my post:Early last week, President Joe Biden called for a constitutional amendment to ensure that presidents can be charged for crimes they commit while going about their presidential business. But passing a constitutional amendment is a long and arduous process. Then, late last week, Senate majority leader Charles Schumer proposed a quicker solution: the No Kings Act.Schumer’s bill would make it so that presidents and vice presidents, as well as former presidents and vice presidents, “shall not be entitled to any form of immunity (whether absolute, presumptive, or otherwise) from criminal prosecutions for alleged violations of the criminal laws of the United States unless specified by Congress.” The legislation would flatly overturn and revoke the immunity invented by the Supreme Court for Donald Trump.</a></label><br><a href="https://romancelandia.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/920/980/294/048/734/original/3aa33120e824fbe8.png" rel="external">https://romancelandia.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/920/980/294/048/734/original/3aa33120e824fbe8.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3419982">Yet more from the link in my post:This alone is a significant step. But the most important part of the legislation is that it attempts to SCOTUS-proof the legislation so that the Supreme Court cannot simply ignore the will of Congress. The bill states that the Supreme Court “shall have no appellate jurisdiction” over the act. This means that the court cannot declare the bill unconstitutional or use another case to restore the absolute immunity the bill takes away. Instead, the bill specifies that any objections to the constitutionality of the legislation must be filed in Washington, DC, and heard by the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.</a></label><br><a href="https://romancelandia.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/920/995/932/890/654/original/7f5d692ae05402a2.png" rel="external">https://romancelandia.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/920/995/932/890/654/original/7f5d692ae05402a2.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3419983">Final bit from the link in my post:Like Biden’s court reform proposals, what’s significant about Schumer’s bill is not its likelihood for success or the chance that it will ever put Donald Trump behind bars. What’s important is that it signals that the Democrats are finally willing to play constitutional hardball with the Republican court. The Supreme Court’s time of ruling over the country, unbothered and unchecked, feels like it is nearing an end.If the Democrats win the trifecta, they will pass something to reform the court and reduce its power. The Republicans on the court will reject those reforms and declare them unconstitutional. And then we will see if the Democrats have the will to do the one thing the Supreme Court cannot reject: expand the number of justices to give the pro-democracy justices a majority on the court.</a></label><br><a href="https://romancelandia.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/921/019/197/147/454/original/aee59d585bd885f3.png" rel="external">https://romancelandia.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/921/019/197/147/454/original/aee59d585bd885f3.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.thenation.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/no-kings-act-schumer-trump-immunity/#USPolitics">This Bill Aims to Strip Trump’s Immunity—and the Supreme Court’s Power</a></h5><div> from <span>https://www.thenation.com/authors</span></div></header><div>In a sign that Democrats are finally getting serious about reining in the Supreme Court, Senator Check Schumer has proposed the No Kings Act.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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The inimitable Elie Mystal on the current initiatives to curb SCOTUS overreach and protect democracy.
"The road toward court reform leads to court expansion or it leads to nowhere. Biden, and now Schumer, are willing to take the first steps."
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/no-kings-act-schumer-trump-immunity/
#USPolitics #SCOTUS #NoKings #2024Election
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