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The Republican administration will ignore this court order as well
by JohnTHaller 8mo ago
The Republican administration will ignore this court order as well
- RajT88 8mo agoIndeed. Who holds the government accountable to its own laws?
- garciasn 8mo agoCongress < Supreme Court < The People We've had a significant breakdown in process here. Congress is deadlocked. The Supreme Court is corrupt. The only thing left are The People (protest / vote < civil disobedience < escalation beyond).
- lemoncucumber 8mo agoYou’ve got the first two backwards. The real accountability mechanism in the constitution for a rogue president/administration is impeachment by congress (which is a proxy for the people in theory). Unfortunately neither enough of congress nor enough of the electorate cares if the administration breaks the law.
- johnnyanmac 8mo agoIn theory, yes. Any supreme court interpretation can be overruled by a congress that is truly in lockstep. Reality, is disappointing. Where we have a dealocked congress we try to switch around every 2 years while 9 people in the courts can re-interpret how they wish with basically zero reprecussions, for life. Maybe the SCOTUS also needs terms limits thanks to modern medical advances. I don't think the founding fathers intended for courts to remain the same people for decades on end. It can be a very long term like the Federal Reserve, but we definitely need something.
- rnxrx 8mo agoHow about we just start with SCOTUS having transparent (and enforced) ethics and corruption policies?
- johnnyanmac 8mo agoThe issue lies in who enforces it. In theory, that's congress with the ability to impeach and convict members of SCOTUS. I've also thrown around ideas in my head of state SC's chief justices having a channel to court marshal a SCOTUS and eject them with a supermajority ruling. Or a band of federal judges. But there's so much more involved there I haven't begun to consider.
- thewebguyd 8mo agoThe people, using the 4 boxes of liberty: Soap Box, Ballot Box, Jury Box, and lastly, the Ammo box.
- nilamo 8mo agoAre you suggesting people take up arms against police? Has that ever gone well for anyone, except as a quick way to die?
- warkdarrior 8mo agoWell, the other option is to live while bending the knee. Who needs rights anyway??
- mothballed 8mo agoI'm not suggesting it, but taking a look at history, a couple notables are the Battle of Athens and Cliven Bundy standoff. Bundy is still grazing his cattle on that land to this day.
- wahern 8mo agoRecent article on the younger Bundy, "Ammon Bundy Is All Alone. The anti-government militia leader can’t make sense of his allies’ support for ICE violence." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/ammon-bundy-trump-ice/685849/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/ammon-bundy-trump-...
- mothballed 8mo agoAmmon Bundy has held relatively libertarian opinions on immigration for a long long time. Since at least the days of the standoffs. His political ideals are closer to the old time westy classical liberalism (something like founding era anti-federalists with a view of the law that essentially mirrors Bastiat) than they are to neo-conservatism.
- thewebguyd 8mo ago
- stebalien 8mo agoThe case was filed in 2023.
- delfinom 8mo agoEh? They can, but it makes any cases based on evidence gathered from the declared unconstitutional searches basically dead and easily tossed in courts.
- harimau777 8mo agoI don't know if that applies if you get a Trump judge.