Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg - eviltoast
  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    The Court wouldn’t have jurisdiction. They could overstep their authority anyway but it’d probably become a constitutional crisis.

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      3 months ago

      As opposed to the other times in recent memory that they overstepped their authority, lied about the facts, and rewrote laws and the constitution?

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        3 months ago

        Lying about the facts and rewriting laws isn’t legally prohibited. This is different because it would be the Supreme Court breaking the law if it viewed a case outside its jurisdiction… or, well, it could be different. It depends on whether the other two branches of government just roll over and let them do it. If Schumer is willing to use jurisdictional stripping the Democrats might be willing to go even farther if the Court decided to ignore the law. Hence, constitutional crisis.