With the Chevron Doctrine out of the way, SCOTUS will likely find in favor of the companies.
So it seems like the naked partisanship of the SCOTUS (as well as what happened in Hungary and Poland) is so scary that all the democratic parties in Germany (so excl. AfD and BSW) have banded together to change the constitution to make the German supreme court (even more) independent from politics
The main points are:
- each judge can only be appointed for one period of 12 years
- upper age limit of 68
- fixed number of judges
These rules are the same as before, but now they are fixed in the constitution, rather than in laws, so they are much harder to change.
I think what I’d like to see with SCOTUS, is a term limit where at the end of the term, rather than just being retired from the bench, they rotate out to one of the Appeals Courts. Those courts aren’t limited in size anyway, and they already have judges on senior status (kind of a semi-retirement). I’d like to say this wouldn’t require a Constitutional Amendment, but I suspect it would be challenged, and I doubt if SCOTUS would vote to limit their own terms once that challenge reached the Supreme Court. Which brings us to a bigger problem. Our Constitution has become, for all intents and purposes, impossible to amend.
And once he’s sentenced can he then appeal the sentence? I’d presume he can.
Also, this doesn’t yet involve the Supreme Court, but it’s something I wanted to talk about here:
So the Idaho legislature, if this passes, will, I guess, send a request to the US Supreme Court asking them to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. The problem is that SCOTUS doesn’t do that. They need an actual “case or controversy” to issue a ruling. They won’t even issue formal or informal opinions about issues. So the Idaho legislature is asking SCOTUS to upend 235 years of Constitutional jurisprudence and procedure. They’re not going to do that. Not even this Court. They will need a new lawsuit in order to revisit Obergefell. In other words, a state somewhere needs to stop issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples in order to trigger a lawsuit by one or more of those couples against that state. That could happen. I have no idea what the Idaho legislature is thinking. What they’re doing is just virtue signaling.
Of course. As anyone can. However, since it appears his sentence will be less than a slap on the wrist, I doubt that appeal will go anywhere.
With this court; who knows?
And, indeed, not even a slap on the wrist. Discharged with no restrictions. Literally, a sentence of nothing. And he still plans to appeal that. I suppose to force New York to waste taxpayer money defending the sentence. The sentence of nothing. What a colossal joke.
I wonder if this will hurt his appeal? I mean, he can’t show any actual harm. He still was elected to the highest office in our country, so being convicted by a jury certainly didn’t impede his election.
I suppose he could claim lawyer fees as being financially damaging to him, but we all know he doesn’t pay his bills.
It’s pathetic.
A lot of countries won’t let a convicted felon visit.
Maybe he won’t be able to visit some golf courses?
He’s certainly in the record books now. First convicted prez to serve.
Yeah, I don’t think there are grounds for appealing the sentence. But he’s still going to file an appeal, which will force the prosecution to submit a brief, and force the appeals court to issue a rejection of the appeal. And then he will appeal that to NY Court of Appeals (their state Supreme Court…in NY, Supreme Court is what they call their trial courts which is super confusing for everyone outside of NY). Wash, rinse, repeat all the way to SCOTUS, which will also reject the appeal. I think he just thinks he’s punishing the courts by making them deal with this.
He needs something to do while in office to keep him busy. Musk and Heritage will be handling running the country.
I think it’s just another way of claiming he can do no wrong, and any claim that he has done anything wrong is part of the librul / Marxist / Derp State / whatever plot against him. He’s being persecuted because he’s the only one fighting for the people, etc., so of course he has to fight back. He looks all that stronger to delusional MAGAts whenever he does or says so.
(I noticed she wasn’t at the service yesterday. 
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I’m sure some conservative is cooking up a fake case with fake people to take to the Supremes to get their preferred decision…
Yeah, she and Dick Cheney were noticeably absent. She was the only living First Lady not there, and Cheney the only living VP not there. Dan Quayle was even present.
I noticed that too!
Maybe she’s decided to TOTALLY withdraw from the shitshow that is US politricks.