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Congress could also simply impeach the President again and this time remove him from office for such nonsense. My point, though, was that the First Amendment,
by lapcat 1y ago
Congress could also simply impeach the President again and this time remove him from office for such nonsense.
My point, though, was that the First Amendment, cited by the OP, is not necessarily going to stop this particular action, because as things stand now, barring a fundamental change in structure that nobody in the Congressional majority is currently proposing, the current Supreme Court decides what the First Amendment means, and the majority seems content to allow the current President to do basically anything he wants.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> as things stand now, barring a fundamental change in structure that nobody in the Congressional majority is currently proposing I mean yes, SCOTUS rules supreme until at least 2026. My point is Democrats have had two trifectas in the last 20 years. We used one to pass ACA. We wasted the second. The idea that the current structure of SCOTUS is immutable has somehow become lore. It is not true. The Constitution is brief on the courts because it left constructing them to Congress.
- lapcat 1y ago> The idea that the current structure of SCOTUS is immutable has somehow become lore. 1. I did not say that it was immutable. 2. There was actually quite a bit of public debate during the Biden administration about expanding the Supreme Court, which Biden himself explicitly rejected. So you're not telling me anything I didn't already know.
- ModernMech 1y ago> Congress could also simply impeach the President again and this time remove him from office for such nonsense. It's not as simple in that case because the Constitution requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate to remove, which cannot be overridden without an amendment. The nation is split pretty much 50/50 not 60/40, so a 50 vote threshold is easier to achieve.