Do you consider the Supreme Court legitimate?

[kentuck]

An argument could be made that they are not.

Mitch McConnell and the Republicans held up Obama's pick for the Court and instead, put a Federalist Society pick in his place. Merrick Garland was going to be the next Justice of the Supreme Court. McConnell argued that we were too close to the next election to have a pick from Obama.

Then when Anthony Kennedy resigned, the Republicans got another pick.

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, we were already into the election season, but that did not seem to matter to McConnell. He didn't mind being called a lying hypocrite.

On top of it all, we had the Republican picks lie about over-turning Roe under the guise of "precedent". It was dishonest all the way around.

So, I think it could be argued that they are not a legitimate Court.

[Arazi]

1. No. Especially when the EPA decision comes down, Biden needs to ignore it

He needs to pull a full Andrew Jackson and tell the court to fuck off and try to enforce it themselves

[Demsrule86]

7. Make me...send your armies out SCOTUS-oh wait you have no armies. All you ever had was

credibility and reputation and you sacrificed both on the altar of politics.

[Demsrule86]

2. They are a rogue court but we have no constitutional tools to deal with such a court. Even if

we think they are illegitimate, there is but one way to get rid of them...impeachment in the House followed by conviction in the Senate...one would need a super majority. We don't have one and are unlikely to get one.

[ck4829]

4. Sounds like tyranny to me

[Demsrule86]

25. It is the way the constitution was set up and was supposed to keep politics out of the courts...not

working well. But we live in a constitutional Republic and folks should educate themselves about what we can actually do. In the meantime, vote in the midterm as if your life depended on it because it likely does.

[ck4829]

3. No.

[montanacowboy]

5. No they are not legitimate

and Biden should just ignore them since he won't expand the court
fuck them and their owners

[Demsrule86]

9. He may expand the court...but won't say so until after the midterm. This is smart.

[Nevilledog]

6. No.

[roamer65]

8. No.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Not this one

Especially when one looks at the circumstances of how many of them got there.

[zanana1]

11. I'm 70 years old and I've always had faith in the Supreme Court.

Until Friday. This Supreme Court is illegitimate.

[Lovie777]

12. Hell no . .....

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Putin's Puppy picked a trio of VRWC Nutjobs to pack it ever rightward.

They’ve done a real good of dividing the USA, too.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. I don't. The last three Supremes were part of a concerted effort to

politicize the Court, so the Court lost its integrity. I see it tie into every conservative dirty trick since 2016.

[tblue37]

15. No.

[Novara]

16. Fuck no. They are political hacks.

[roamer65]

17. It's rivaling the Taney court and it's Dred Scott decision.

We all know where that led us.

[LeftInTX]

18. No, but my opinion doesn't matter anyway..

They rule the country with no checks and balances.

[Tetrachloride]

19. No. the most important decisions have been illegitimate

and the selection of judges has been illegitimate at least 3x

[Ocelot II]

20. Whether or not they are technically "legitimate," the real problem is

that they have lost the confidence and trust of a whole lot of people - now, apparently a majority. If litigants and others with an interest in the outcome of a case can't trust that a court will consider the matter without partisan motives and will decide it on the basis of a fair and neutral application of the law, what good is the court at all? Why even have a Supreme Court?

[Ohio Joe]

21. I do not think they are legitimate...

From the turtles tactics to deny President Obama his pick to several of them lying to get appointed... They delegitimized themselves.

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

22. Great question

And before I saw your post I was thinking about how illegitimate the SCOTUS is….here is why I think it’s illegitimate

1. Robert’s and Alito were appointed by Bush who lost the popular vote and the only reason he won was due to the SCOTUS stopping the recount in Florida…yes, technically they were appointed during his second term, but without a first term he doesn’t get a second term

2. Trump lost the popular vote and was able to appoint three justices in only one term…all three are illegitimate but Gorsuch and Barrett even more so due to Mitch McConnell not allowing Obama to appoint Garland based on his “election year” rule and then making up another “election year” rule to get Barrett confirmed

3. The senators who confirmed these judges represent states with less population compared to the senators who opposed their nomination

[diane in sf]

26. I agree, and just to add, w bush's second term was gotten by Karl Rove running the Ohio

election results thru his private server farm and altering the results. Google ‘red shift’ as well.

[BlueTsunami2018]

23. Everything was done by the rules.

You can say that Moscow twisted the spirit of those rules to the breaking point but there’s no question that everything was within the confines of the Constitution and the law.

They played to win and they did.

[inthewind21]

24. Say away

Saying it, and it actually being so are 2 very different things.

[usonian]

27. Showing their true colors.

[dalton99a]

28. The U.S. Supreme Court is actively waging a campaign of terror against the American people.

What kind of judiciary is this?

[NewHendoLib]

29. Not in the least. Fuck, NO!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

30. Not at all.

[Butterflylady]

31. No

They're a joke! And not a funny joke.

[deminks]

32. Oh, hell no. Not since Bush v Gore.

[Xoan]

33. NOPE.

[pwb]

34. This Suppress court is sophomoric.

And narrow minded. Unworldly.

[TheProle]

35. Yes.

GOTV

[drmeow]

36. Not since they gave

Bush the White House.

They've been lying in hearings since at least Thomas.

Now they are basically the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof)

[EndlessWire]

37. NO.

Several of them lied about their intentions against Roe v. Wade, even when asked directly.

One of them probably participated in the attempted coup on J6.

One of them announced his interest in overturning long settled law that will affect millions.

One of them probably works for Trump through Eastman.

The head of the Court is sitting on his ass while his Justices are running amok.