Sweeping Bill Introduced by Ron Wyden (D) Would Completely Overhaul Supreme Court as We Know It - eviltoast

Reminder that getting control of the house and senate could make stuff like this potentially get through

This proposal is not only one that expands the number of justices over time but alter things like the court’s shadow docket, require justices to release tax returns, and more

  • Serinus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Most of the fix should be much simpler. Pay them each $600k, indexed to inflation.

    That should make them pretty resistant to bribery. Your quality of life really doesn’t improve much past that $600k point, even if you’re maintaining two houses. (And the justices aren’t representatives. They don’t need a second house.)

    But yes, their tax returns should be public as well.

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      2 months ago

      Yes but once you make that much, then amassing more money turns into a game of how you can fuck over the most people to increase your value. See: every billionaire in existance.

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        2 months ago

        When all your planes come back with bullet holes at points A, B, and C, where should you add additional armor?

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            2 months ago

            Billionaires are a subset where they’ve already self-selected for extreme greed. Hopefully Supreme Court justices would be closer to a normal population.

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      2 months ago

      Our recent experience with Trump should have made it painfully clear that rich people can be bribed too.

      So no, we don’t need to pay them more. We need to send them to jail if the accept bribes. And the law that enables that should be passed with a note that it is not subject to judicial review by the Supreme Court.