Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said on Saturday that she hopes the court’s decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity will be overturned, saying her colleagues have done some “crazy things.”
Appearing for a civics education talk at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, the liberal justice also publicly commented for the first time on this week’s midterm contests, when Democrats swept control of both chambers of Congress.
The justice specifically singled out the court’s 6-3 decision along ideological lines that former presidents enjoy at least presumptive immunity for their official acts. At the time, the justice wrote that it made Trump and his successors a “king above the law.”
I’m over the SC. Can we get constitutional amendments for this already? My list so far:
-Add Supreme Court term limits and enough justices that every president nominates 2 and bind them to a code of ethics.
-The president should be bound by criminal law and a constitutional code of ethics similar to the Hatch Act.
-The electoral college should be abolished.
-Corporations are not people and do not have political speech rights.
-An updated version of the ERA with specific protections for abortion rights.
A center of justice appointed by a partisan selection process is fucking insane
I don’t disagree. (The tone of this is agreement with you, not defensiveness)
Are all of those doable by congress without the supreme court going nah, you can’t do that?Edit: My bad, i missed the constitutional amendment part at the top, i thought you just meant laws passed by congress.
We need a full medical freedom amendment
Do tell! What is that?
Essentially an amendment saying that the government can’t interfere when the profession of medicine, the practitioner, and the patient are in agreement that a treatment is reasonable. It will protect stuff like abortion, transition, etc while not protecting stuff like quackery (because the medical profession disagrees with it)
Ohh, that would be amazing. It seems like it might require ironing out medically assisted suicide though?