House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court’s immunity decision

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1. Anyone have the actual text of the proposal?

   Edit: Looking at his website it doesn’t look like anything other than a press release of what he intends to author. I’d be interested if someone has the text.

2. It would be a lot quicker if Biden uses his newfound powers and “cordially invites” *several* of the justices to a weekend trip down to Guantanamo bay to have a “quick workshop” about their decision.

   “I don’t want these powers for me, or any future president, so what you’re going to do next is reconsider your opinion. I’m going back to DC, you guys stay here, think it over, enjoy the amenities for the next couple days, stay as long as you need to come up with a more rational opinion, and once you do, I’ll have my guys come pick you up.”

   P.s.- in my official capacity, you all have been declared enemies of the state while we work this thing out.

3. Expand the court.

4. House Republicans will never pass it because they want Trump to win and become a dictator. Even if Trump loses, they know Biden and other Dems won’t abuse the Presidency, so they’ll wait until one of their guys finally win to take ivermectin the country

5. While we are at it, let’s do an Equal Rights Amendment

6. It’d be like the Myth of Sisiyphus. Expansion of the Supreme Court is much more easily accomplished and could reverse Robert’s rulings.

7. Presidential immunity is the most crooked thing the Supreme courts ever done. It was the only way to keep Trump out of jail, they’ll reverse the decision someday when trumps dead. 

8. Do they have the votes for such an amendment to go into effect ’till January 20 2025? No? Then shut it.

   America is literally four months away from its own January 30 1933 and these guys still talk about going down the high road and sticking to the rules Republicans give no fuck about anymore. That Amendment idea is akin to Germans wanting to stop Hitler on August 1 1934 (*when he formally became the Fuhrer of Germany*) by suing him at a lower rural court somewhere in Saxony or whatnot.

   Extraordinary times require extraordinary questions. Their Heritage Foundation guy is already talking about blood and they’ve surely got their purge lists ready.

9. At least someone is trying. 

10. Okay? Kucinich read 35 articles of impeachment against W in the House and it was fun to watch and all but clearly went nowhere, just like this will. Insane these people get paid like 170k for political theater.

11. IMPEACH THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE(s)

12. Nice gesture but that’s all it will be.

13. Dear God please. 🙏🏻

14. It’s so wild to me that Democrats still haven’t come to terms that the game has changed.

    Politics shifted after Trump and the “ho-hum herr-derrr” of playing by the rules, when the rules are fundamental broken, is going to be the bane of this country.

    The rules are broken. USE the opportunity to re-establish them stronger than ever.

15. They don’t seem to abide by the constitution. No amendment will matter.

16. How many years for the Equal Rights Amendment?

17. I’m sure the red states will get right in that for ratification

18. It’s just performative. A pipe dream. Meant to make you feel cozy that they’ve “got this,” but they don’t.

19. Please reverse that shit

20. A founding principle of our country is; That no person be above the law and that we are not a land of kings. 

    By defying that they have broken not just a tradition or norm, but the 14th amendment of the constitution which codified it into the document of our nation. 

    They are violating the constitution and also subject to Title 18 of the U.S. Code –

    18 U.S.C. § 241 – Conspiracy Against Rights: This statute makes it a crime for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to them by the Constitution or laws of the United States.

    18 U.S.C. § 242 – Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law: This statute makes it a crime for anyone acting under color of law (such as a government official) to willfully deprive a person of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States

    In addition to the amendment, Biden should use his new authority to stop a corrupt SCOTUS.

21. We don’t need a constitutional amendment. The constitution says the President isn’t immune to prosecution explicitly. The Supreme Court just ignored that part.

22. Good, I guess. It won’t help. We are fucked as a country. Half our population doesn’t care about America and wants a dictator. Our education is shit, our politicians are shit, the country is shit. It is over. Even if Biden wins, it is over…. It’ll just take a little longer.

23. I see lots of comments about what the government should do to fix this problem and it seems all of the ideas involve processes that require the congress to agree, and that’s obviously not going to happen. Am I wrong?

    Impeachment, getting new justices, making a new amendment, etc etc.. not possible without approval of congress, right? So what’s the point? Someone please tell me I’m wrong. I want to believe that there’s a productive possibility.

24. If the democrats don’t make this the central issue of the election, I’m speechless.