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Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
(www.nbcnews.com)
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That doesn’t sound like an abuse of checks and balances to me, to be honest. This is exactly how the system is designed. They still need a majority to pass anything.
Flip the script for a moment; imagine we had ultra right wing judges who make insane judgements. Is it not the whole point of checks and balances for the legislative and executive branches to be able to exert some control over the judiciary branch provided they have an appropriate majority?
I don’t agree with Johnson, he’s a cunt, but this doesn’t seem like abuse per se, rather exactly how the system was designed. I’m not worried about it because they don’t have the votes.
If you have ultra right wing judges making insane judgements you impeach them, not dismantle an entire branch of government. This is not "how the system was designed" and if you think that, reread the constitution. Even if they don't have the votes, the fact that its being suggested should be setting off red alert alarms about the next stage that the Rs are aiming to put into motion.
That's not what's going on here. The courts are standing up for the law. The President is trying to use the congress as a weapon to ensure the courts cannot force him to follow the law. It's tyranny and we must not accept it.
What insane judgements? I don't think this is a very good example given his orders have ignored laws outright. The rendition thing is basic due process. Its from right wing judges enforcing law. It is by no means ultra left wing judges making insane judgements. I just don't think this example you are giving is apt to the current condition.
"gestures at the 5th circuit"
again its not apt to the situation in that its not ultra leftist making judgements against trump its right wing judges. at least in the case of the renditions. All the same if we are just talking completely unrelated and issue with the courts overall being to bias its not a proper way to deal with it by defunding the whole court system any more than you remove congress or the office of presidency to deal with something. There is processes to remove individuals from any of the branches and that is a within the system, appropriate process. Removing the system is anti system so would be appropriate for a revolutionary this is more usurper activity. That is the idea of taking power from within by removing it. Maybe there is a better word.
sry if I wasn't clear. what Johnson is trying to do is insane. I was just pointing to the 5th circuit that had been throwing out insane rulings and the judge every crazy gop team shops for.