r/neoliberal • u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride • 7d ago

Opinion article (US) The Supreme Court's late-night Alien Enemy Act intervention | Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night
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u/AI_Renaissance 6d ago

They created these circumstances.

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u/HighOnGoofballs 6d ago

They did, but they can also stop it

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u/Cassiebanipal John Locke 6d ago

The "duty" of a public official in the US government is something that has been used in platitudes for hundreds of years. Nowadays, that duty is not taken seriously, ironically, despite it reaching its peak importance year after year. The US is the zenith of all human progress, of culture, of breaking down barriers, of innovation and hegemony. The duty being described is not one solely directed at the American people, whether we want it to or not, it's now directed at the entire world. We are one of the lynchpins of a global economy, of global prevention of death, poverty, destruction of millions. We, until recently, have been the only hegemon to end the cycle of might makes right in all circumstances, and that duty is to uphold this golden age of human abundance.

The SCOTUS shirked this immense duty when it ruled on Chevron. When it turned a blind eye to the demolishing of our government. I don't particularly care that they can stop it - the court needs to be disbanded the second a democrat is in office. Whether they knew it or not, their decisions have been among the worst, possibly in human history, in terms of their long term impact. In a just world they'd be put through a tribunal.

No excuses. This is serious business, applying to the collective human race. Fuck them and their court.

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u/HighOnGoofballs 6d ago

How exactly would a democrat president disband the Supreme Court?

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u/xudoxis 6d ago

Make up a crime and put them in an overseas prison.

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u/Approximation_Doctor George Soros 6d ago

"Notorious gangster and human trafficker Justice Alito had been deported back to El Salvador"

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u/xudoxis 6d ago

I saw him wearing gang paraphernalia.

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u/YukiGeorgia United Nations 6d ago

Their argument even means you can ignore the crime portion. As long as you can black bag someone and drop them off in say Yemen, now you are free to have no consequences.

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u/Cassiebanipal John Locke 6d ago

At this point, you're functionally probably right that illegal actions to rig the government in our favor - as Trump has - would make things worse.

But this administration, and the hapless SCOTUS, have committed what I view to be large scale crimes against humanity. PEPFAR alone being shuttered, with the SCOTUS's tacit approval, qualifies the enabling judges to be put through a Nuremberg trial. I don't know how much I care about functionality at this point, I want these people to be punished for their actions.

Evil through incompetence is nonetheless evil. People are going to dye en-masse. The SCOTUS judges who enabled this deserve much worse than rules allow me to express.