Well since 2 judges are pro Jan 6 I’d remove them too as part of the conspiracy.
The ruling is limited to “official acts”, but the same court is the one who decides if an act is official or not
Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The ruling is limited to “official acts”, but the same court is the one who decides if an act is official or not
Well since 2 judges are pro Jan 6 I’d remove them too as part of the conspiracy.
Stern@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Feel like the next lohical step is to throw the 6 into jail. They obviously can’t rule on their own trial so…
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why couldn’t they? The supreme court is literally the final authority, and there is no mechanism to automatically remove a justice from the bench. There is an ethics code that says they should recuse themselves if they have a conflict in a case but it has no enforcement mechanism - two sitting justices have literally taken bribes in violation of the ethics code
Stern@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The obvious thing would be the 14th amendment due process clause. Can’t have a fair and unbiased case against someone if they’re the one judging it. Thats been affirmed as far back as The Federalist.
Beyond that, though I said it’d be up to the remaining 3 judges, I’m pretty sure it’d have to go up through the court system, and as Trump has shown, that can be slowboated to the end of time, or until those SC judges wisely decide to retire/get forcibly “retired”, after which the charges get dropped and everyone goes on their merry way, and then the courts (crazily enough!) establish again that the pres does not have that kind of immunity so history doesn’t repeat itself.
But I already know Joe wouldn’t play that kind of hardball.