r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 15d ago

Possible Paywall Jack Smith Found Proof Beyond “Reasonable Doubt” of Trump’s Guilt

https://newrepublic.com/post/215971/jack-smith-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt-donald-trump-guilt
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u/AcolyteOfInfinity 15d ago

50% of house and 67% of senate, don’t believe the filibuster changes that but could be wrong

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u/da2Pakaveli 15d ago

We say we set the number of justices to 13. Since that doesn't "override" anything in the Constitution we can pass it with simple majorities.

And to avoid Republicans filibustering it...we get rid of the filibuster.

Maybe we can pull some Orban type bs and introduce some dumb reason we can get rid of them (like in Poland they put age limits).

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u/AcolyteOfInfinity 15d ago

Using Orbán as an example of how we should conduct our government is bat shit crazy

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u/Carlyz37 Illinois 15d ago

Well our government is currently being conducted in similar ways as Orban so...

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u/theVoidWatches Pennsylvania 15d ago

And that's a bad thing.

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u/Mobile_Morale 15d ago

Well sitting around a campfire singing kumbaya isn't going to fix shit.

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u/AcolyteOfInfinity 15d ago

Yeah cause siding with even more autocracy solves it. Numbnuts

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u/Mobile_Morale 15d ago

Nobody is siding with him. They're talking about using his corrupt power grab method to take the country back from the Republicans.

The guy doesn't matter. They could've used any corrupt athoritarian government as an example.

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u/theVoidWatches Pennsylvania 15d ago

Don't worry, no one has ever used authoritarian techniques to defeat authoritarians and then ended up as just another authoritarian before! /s

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u/da2Pakaveli 15d ago

The new Hungarian PM has done some of that stuff as well to weed out left over Fidesz corruption. It's unfortunately necessary.

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u/o8Stu 15d ago

The Constitution spells out that they'll remain Justices "in good conduct", meaning that they can't be removed by any means other than impeachment.

Biden's plan for the court tries to sidestep this by allowing them to remain justices of lower federal courts after their 18-year tenure was up (if they want to stay on), but that obviously wasn't passed into law and so hasn't been tested for legality / constitutionality. Would be rather weird to see the supreme court decide whether it's Constitutional to put supreme court justices out to pasture after 18 years, especially considering that several of those currently sitting would be subject to that limit.

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u/BlgMastic 15d ago

So Trump can appoint 4 justices tomorrow with that logic?