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Supreme Court approval rating falls to one of lowest yet amid Trump cases
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When five out of nine have been appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote, that's what you'll get.
Of course, we have no way of removing any of them, so it's not like they have to care.
There's ways. They're only lifetime appointments, after all.
To be fair, Bush had won the popular vote by the time he nominated any justices.
Remember what the chairman of Diebold said.
He won the popular vote by taking the country into an unjustified war because he has daddy issues.
Yes, but he wouldn't have even been president in the first place if it wasn't for the Supreme Court, and specifically Clarence Thomas.
True. And he had an incumbency advantage in 2004. I was just pointing out that Bush's appointments weren't as simple as "he didn't win the popular vote."
Right, but he wouldn't have even been running in 2004 if he hadn't been handed the presidency in 2000.
There are ways. Impeachment being the constitutionally sanctioned way.
Just appoint 10 additional supreme court judges. Then pass federal law to limit adding more supreme court judges. Pass federal laws to fix all of the shit that has been happening, including voting reform and gerrymandering with a better voting system A second reconstruction era.
It would be easy to fix, all the democrats need is a solid majority which they would get on election reform or abortion alone.
they should have. They could have. People said this... like when RvW was on the chopping block.
But no. "We can't do that because then they'd do it!"
The problem with federal law is that the next Congress can ignore it. Never forget Congress writes the laws and that means there's functionally no way to bind a future Congress short of the Constitution.
That's not viable. It requires getting a bunch of Republicans to agree to it, and getting even one Republican to listen to reason is a rare thing.