Impeaching the bad actors is the correct solution, in my problem. Impeachment could also be used to remove elderly judges who are no longer sharp enough to do the job. The problem is that it is too hard to impeach them. The bar and number of votes required to impeach needs to be lowered. Right now, the GOP can block every attempt to impeach these obviously unethical justices. 50% in the House to impeach and 50% in the Senate to convict/remove them, without allowing filibusters, would solve this issue.
I don’t think the 50/50 “fix” would do anything but cause massive issues every single election. We seem to constantly end up losing and gaining that 50% so frequently that the courts would be upended every time the opposition got the majority.
I’d love to see it happen, but I don’t foresee it any time soon, and that’s a real issue. The “left” pols put off bringing articles of impeachment on too many right wing presidents: right wing pols brought impeachment charges against neolib, Clinton, for lying about cheating on his wife with a naïve intern (Bill Barr and George Conway took part in that), neoliberal pols failed to impeach George W. Bush for lying about Sadaam Hussein possessing WMD and manufacturing evidence (presenting fake evidence). Congress also notably did nothing about SCOTUS calling the election for W with the ludicrous “hanging chad” decision. Flash forward and the EC (which Congress has the power to abolish) appointed tfg. When Dems finally got around to impeaching someone, Bill Barr was AG, and he willfully lied about what was in Mueller’s final investigative report of tfg. So now tfg has installed numerous corrupt judges and other government appointees that can’t immediately be easily removed, Dems failed to stack the court under their own former guy, so we’ve got this. I don’t foresee neolib or traditional conservatives really being able to do anything about it, their own reluctance aside. I’m interested to hear what anyone could do, if the willingness and intestinal fortitude to do anything can be mustered. Anyone?
That’s because the American “left” is center-right. That is why Democrats never do shit to hold Republicans to account: They’re politically aligned enough to not really care.
Americans HAVE to learn that the Democrats are also not good. That doesn’t make them useless when fighting far-right fascists, but it makes them useless for solving the US’s problems that allowed the rise of fascism in the first place.
its more our FPTP system only has one degree of freedom. We need multiwinner elections for the house, senate, electoral college where anyone who gets 10% of the vote gets 10% of the reps. Then the politicians can’t hide all the shit under wedge issues. They can do that now because our electoral system is infinitely gameable as long as there’s only 2 choices
That is indeed a possible solution, but do not doscount how true my statements are: Democrats are NOT an ally of anyone wanting actual radical change. Maybe if they ever start taking climate change seriously, but even then… Democrats (the party leadership more specifically) are not good people. There are some good Democrats, but the party is not and does fight change.
No, don’t expand it. Impeach the judges for being corrupt. Don’t let them just hang around like a turd floating in the pool.
Impeaching the bad actors is the correct solution, in my problem. Impeachment could also be used to remove elderly judges who are no longer sharp enough to do the job. The problem is that it is too hard to impeach them. The bar and number of votes required to impeach needs to be lowered. Right now, the GOP can block every attempt to impeach these obviously unethical justices. 50% in the House to impeach and 50% in the Senate to convict/remove them, without allowing filibusters, would solve this issue.
I don’t think the 50/50 “fix” would do anything but cause massive issues every single election. We seem to constantly end up losing and gaining that 50% so frequently that the courts would be upended every time the opposition got the majority.
I’d love to see it happen, but I don’t foresee it any time soon, and that’s a real issue. The “left” pols put off bringing articles of impeachment on too many right wing presidents: right wing pols brought impeachment charges against neolib, Clinton, for lying about cheating on his wife with a naïve intern (Bill Barr and George Conway took part in that), neoliberal pols failed to impeach George W. Bush for lying about Sadaam Hussein possessing WMD and manufacturing evidence (presenting fake evidence). Congress also notably did nothing about SCOTUS calling the election for W with the ludicrous “hanging chad” decision. Flash forward and the EC (which Congress has the power to abolish) appointed tfg. When Dems finally got around to impeaching someone, Bill Barr was AG, and he willfully lied about what was in Mueller’s final investigative report of tfg. So now tfg has installed numerous corrupt judges and other government appointees that can’t immediately be easily removed, Dems failed to stack the court under their own former guy, so we’ve got this. I don’t foresee neolib or traditional conservatives really being able to do anything about it, their own reluctance aside. I’m interested to hear what anyone could do, if the willingness and intestinal fortitude to do anything can be mustered. Anyone?
That’s because the American “left” is center-right. That is why Democrats never do shit to hold Republicans to account: They’re politically aligned enough to not really care.
Americans HAVE to learn that the Democrats are also not good. That doesn’t make them useless when fighting far-right fascists, but it makes them useless for solving the US’s problems that allowed the rise of fascism in the first place.
its more our FPTP system only has one degree of freedom. We need multiwinner elections for the house, senate, electoral college where anyone who gets 10% of the vote gets 10% of the reps. Then the politicians can’t hide all the shit under wedge issues. They can do that now because our electoral system is infinitely gameable as long as there’s only 2 choices
That is indeed a possible solution, but do not doscount how true my statements are: Democrats are NOT an ally of anyone wanting actual radical change. Maybe if they ever start taking climate change seriously, but even then… Democrats (the party leadership more specifically) are not good people. There are some good Democrats, but the party is not and does fight change.