Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds
Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds
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Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds
Okay obviously SCOTUS is the problem here, but Dick Fucking Durbin should've subpoena every single one of those fucks to testify before Congress. I don't care if they refuse, send the Sergeant At Arms and drag them in. And I'm not talking about just the conservatives. I want to know why the fuck Kagan, Sotomayor, and KBJ don't think they need an enforceable ethics code, because they've signed on to that too.
Letting these unelected zealots operate with minimal pushback is completely unacceptable.
I agree with your message, but as a Canadian, I always find it funny how Americans throw around "unelected" as a pejorative. Very few countries hold elections for anything that isn't a professional-political positions. Maybe I'm biased from my experiences, but I don't think there is anything wrong with judges being unelected, they should be apolitical and follow a code of ethics.
The craziest thing to me as a non-American is that Sheriffs are voted for.
Zero qualifications, just need to be popular.
What. The. Fuck.
I'm American and I agree with you 100%. You actually can elect local judges in many places in the U.S. and it's a terrible idea because people have no idea what they're voting for most of the time, and how can they? It's not like there's a lot of easily available literature about the people running to convict criminals. I usually end up voting for anyone who is a woman or a POC if I can just to increase diversity in the courts system, but as with Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas, that is obviously no guarantee.
It's also a pejorative that people only use when the ruling is against their interests.
My state (Wisconsin) elects its Supreme Court justices. It's a mixed bag. We had several years of conservative rule on the court with some terrible consequences. Now we have a liberal majority pretty well entrenched and things are starting to work out better.
What I do know is that federal Supreme Court justices shouldn't have lifetime terms. It should be long, but not lifetime.