Can the president declare them traitors and no longer fit for duty, thus ousting them physically?
Supreme Court judges must be confirmed by a majority of the Senate before being seated.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Supreme Court judges must be confirmed by a majority of the Senate before being seated.
Can the president declare them traitors and no longer fit for duty, thus ousting them physically?
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The ratio is 50, and dems have 51 senators.
Biden can order the murder of all the right wing justices and then the senate can rubber stamp them in.
daltotron@lemmy.world 5 months ago
the dems would never go for that, though, because then they’d actually be doing something. even if you took away oh no the two senators that somehow always conveniently oppose any action they take, you can be sure that they’d pull some other poor sap up out of the bowels in order to play the villain.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I mean, i qould hope senators of nay party would oppose a president that “legally” murders a supreme court justice, let alone 6 of them.
The fact that these 6 have it coming is besides the point.
daltotron@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mean, do I have to say what you could just do to any senators which oppose you? It might be getting into coup territory, but eventually you’d probably reach a point where things just proceed as normal. Or you, as biden, could just take the L on it, make sure the newly stacked supreme court shuts it down, eat the, what, next 10 years of your life, if that, in federal prison or whatever it is, and blammo. Could probably even use the opportunity to step down but I imagine if he did some shit like that his approval rating might go through the glass dome protecting the flat earth aaaand post