The Supreme Court justice flew to Montana and other destinations on the billionaire GOP donor’s dime. Crow’s lawyer revealed these flights to the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose ongoing investigation was sparked by ProPublica’s reporting.
Okay obviously SCOTUS is the problem here, but Dick Fucking Durbin should’ve subpoena every single one of those fucks to testify before Congress. I don’t care if they refuse, send the Sergeant At Arms and drag them in. And I’m not talking about just the conservatives. I want to know why the fuck Kagan, Sotomayor, and KBJ don’t think they need an enforceable ethics code, because they’ve signed on to that too.
Letting these unelected zealots operate with minimal pushback is completely unacceptable.
I agree with your message, but as a Canadian, I always find it funny how Americans throw around “unelected” as a pejorative. Very few countries hold elections for anything that isn’t a professional-political positions. Maybe I’m biased from my experiences, but I don’t think there is anything wrong with judges being unelected, they should be apolitical and follow a code of ethics.
Why is it a bad thing that the head of law enforcement be accountable to the people directly? Why is it better for them to be appointed by a wealthy politician?
I’m American and I agree with you 100%. You actually can elect local judges in many places in the U.S. and it’s a terrible idea because people have no idea what they’re voting for most of the time, and how can they? It’s not like there’s a lot of easily available literature about the people running to convict criminals. I usually end up voting for anyone who is a woman or a POC if I can just to increase diversity in the courts system, but as with Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas, that is obviously no guarantee.
Okay obviously SCOTUS is the problem here, but Dick Fucking Durbin should’ve subpoena every single one of those fucks to testify before Congress. I don’t care if they refuse, send the Sergeant At Arms and drag them in. And I’m not talking about just the conservatives. I want to know why the fuck Kagan, Sotomayor, and KBJ don’t think they need an enforceable ethics code, because they’ve signed on to that too.
Letting these unelected zealots operate with minimal pushback is completely unacceptable.
I agree with your message, but as a Canadian, I always find it funny how Americans throw around “unelected” as a pejorative. Very few countries hold elections for anything that isn’t a professional-political positions. Maybe I’m biased from my experiences, but I don’t think there is anything wrong with judges being unelected, they should be apolitical and follow a code of ethics.
The craziest thing to me as a non-American is that Sheriffs are voted for.
Zero qualifications, just need to be popular.
What. The. Fuck.
Why is it a bad thing that the head of law enforcement be accountable to the people directly? Why is it better for them to be appointed by a wealthy politician?
Law enforcement should always require training and knowledge of the law.
Politicians are there to oversee and be elected, they are accountable to the people directly and they have the power to fire police officers.
Law enforcement shouldn’t be elected and thus be influenced by people directly
They are public servants.
I’m American and I agree with you 100%. You actually can elect local judges in many places in the U.S. and it’s a terrible idea because people have no idea what they’re voting for most of the time, and how can they? It’s not like there’s a lot of easily available literature about the people running to convict criminals. I usually end up voting for anyone who is a woman or a POC if I can just to increase diversity in the courts system, but as with Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas, that is obviously no guarantee.