Despite the historical imperative of assuring that all free governments answer to one rule of law, the U.S. Supreme Court recently announced, with its empty code of ethics, that it answers to no one.
The code only looks forward, not backward, and there are no penalties and no provisions for investigating Alito and Thomas’ conduct anyway. The code fails to create an inspector general, a retired jurist panel, or any other entity with oversight authority over the court, so the members will continue to be their own personal judges.
It seems we’re under an unelected monarchy after all.
More of a council of Greybeards than a monarchy.
“There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required. The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly; wherefore the different parts, by unnaturally opposing and destroying each other, prove the whole character to be absurd and useless.”
– Thomas Paine, Common Sense
They were supposed to be subject to some semblance of democratic mechanism, but McConnell killed that. What we have now is the court the Republicans forced onto the people against our wishes.
the poisoning of the judiciary begins with prosecutorial discretion, with entitlement and privilege blooming up the career ladder
America is not a democracy.
It used to be, in ancient societies, that high priests would tell you what healthcare God said you could access and which people God said you could date.
Nowadays we just call them judges
If we absolutely have to have a Dictatorship/King , can it be someone besides Orange or Clarence Thomas ?
Supreme Court is bullshit
Monarchy : Rule by one individual usually hereditary. For example a King or Queen.
By definition not a monarchy
Kritocracy: Rule by Judges.
The second one is what you’re looking for.
What Democracy? This has never been a democracy.
Has that band of so-called judges who take money from political donors still not vacated their position to make place for real judges?
They think of themselves more equal than the rest of us.
Facts, there’s 0 accountability
Yes, that damned old Constitution. What a pain in the ass. Who’s idea was that anyway? We should get rid of it.
This is intended as irony.
Thomas and Alito need to be indicted. Who can stand up to these clowns?
US Supreme Court: It’s a big F U to all of us.
From the article:
“…By design and text, no branch of federal government- executive, legislative or judicial- was given primacy over another. The powers of each were carefully delineated in the Constitution’s structural components, Articles I, II, and III, which wove an ingenious system of checks and balances among the three. “
What is ruining out nation is an entire generation that does not know the meaning of common words like “monarchy”
I know r/unpopularopinion
Idk if the author understands the concept of a monarchy.
To my US folks: Ask the French about monarchs they didn’t like.
What a bait headline. I understand this is a guest writer (aka “opinion” piece) but really?
At what point does a headline cross the threshold from hyperbole designed to get people engaged and just.. Way off base?
It’s technically an “ennearchy,” but the logic checks out. The Supreme Court is an anti-democratic joke as currently constituted.
It’s really more of a theocracy. They descend from on high twice a year to issue edicts we all must follow and pay homage to.
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Despite the historical imperative of assuring that all free governments answer to one rule of law, the U.S. Supreme Court recently announced, with its empty code of ethics, that it answers to no one.
The code only looks forward, not backward, and there are no penalties and no provisions for investigating Alito and Thomas’ conduct anyway. The code fails to create an inspector general, a retired jurist panel, or any other entity with oversight authority over the court, so the members will continue to be their own personal judges.
It seems we’re under an unelected monarchy after all.
More of a council of Greybeards than a monarchy.
“There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required. The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly; wherefore the different parts, by unnaturally opposing and destroying each other, prove the whole character to be absurd and useless.”
– Thomas Paine, Common Sense
They were supposed to be subject to some semblance of democratic mechanism, but McConnell killed that. What we have now is the court the Republicans forced onto the people against our wishes.
the poisoning of the judiciary begins with prosecutorial discretion, with entitlement and privilege blooming up the career ladder
America is not a democracy.
It used to be, in ancient societies, that high priests would tell you what healthcare God said you could access and which people God said you could date.
Nowadays we just call them judges
If we absolutely have to have a Dictatorship/King , can it be someone besides Orange or Clarence Thomas ?
Supreme Court is bullshit
Monarchy : Rule by one individual usually hereditary. For example a King or Queen.
By definition not a monarchy
Kritocracy: Rule by Judges.
The second one is what you’re looking for.
What Democracy? This has never been a democracy.
Has that band of so-called judges who take money from political donors still not vacated their position to make place for real judges?
They think of themselves more equal than the rest of us.
Facts, there’s 0 accountability
Yes, that damned old Constitution. What a pain in the ass. Who’s idea was that anyway? We should get rid of it.
This is intended as irony.
Thomas and Alito need to be indicted. Who can stand up to these clowns?
US Supreme Court: It’s a big F U to all of us.
From the article:
“…By design and text, no branch of federal government- executive, legislative or judicial- was given primacy over another. The powers of each were carefully delineated in the Constitution’s structural components, Articles I, II, and III, which wove an ingenious system of checks and balances among the three. “
What is ruining out nation is an entire generation that does not know the meaning of common words like “monarchy”
I know r/unpopularopinion
Idk if the author understands the concept of a monarchy.
To my US folks: Ask the French about monarchs they didn’t like.
What a bait headline. I understand this is a guest writer (aka “opinion” piece) but really?
At what point does a headline cross the threshold from hyperbole designed to get people engaged and just.. Way off base?
It’s technically an “ennearchy,” but the logic checks out. The Supreme Court is an anti-democratic joke as currently constituted.
It’s really more of a theocracy. They descend from on high twice a year to issue edicts we all must follow and pay homage to.