There's absolutely nothing we can do about the current Supreme Court

[Cyrano]

There are options, but they are not realistic.

Option one would be to win both the House and the Senate in the 2024 election, and then try to increase the number of justices on the court up to 13. This means that if we can get enough votes in both houses, and that we would still have a Democratic President who will sign off on it, the scales would be balanced.

Option two would be to impeach two members of the Supreme Court (Thomas and Alito?) for corruption. (Impeaching a politician for corruption in today's America would be the ultimate in hypocrisy.) There would never be enough votes in the House to impeach a sitting Justice, nor enough votes in the Senate to convict. And this also assumes we have a Democratic President who will sign on the dotted line.

Sooo ... even if we hold onto the presidency and take the House and Senate, the chances of "curing" America's justice system is virtually hopeless.

My next statement is both cruel and insensitive. -- Send your "thoughts and prayers" that lightening will strike in the right place at the right time. Twice. (But, given the world we live in, it will probably hit two Dem Justices.)

Here's my bottom line. The current Supreme Court will spend the coming years fucking us, perhaps beyond repair. And there's not a damn thing we can do about it.

Perhaps 25-50 years from now, assuming climate change doesn't wipe us out, a SCOTUS will come into being that will right all the malicious cruelty with which this current Court is destroying the very concept of what America is supposed to be.

[FalloutShelter]

1. I have read rumblings about Thomas and Alito considering retirement.

The answer is MORE DEMOCRATS. Let's dominate the next two elections.

[RockRaven]

2. Neither of them would retire without a Repuke POTUS.

Those considerations are 100% contingent on being replaced by a young RWNJ.

[Timewas]

3. Except

Biden is against enlarging the SC. He says "too Political".

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4074578-biden-expanding-supreme-court-would-politicize-it-maybe-forever/

[SharonAnn]

12. Except that the current Court is "too political" to exist as it is.

[Timewas]

16. Yes

I agree, I personally think they should enlarge it. That has been done before, but if the president is against it might be hard to get it done even without the fight the rethugs would put up.

[edisdead]

18. How wpuld he even get that passed?

It IS too political.

[republianmushroom]

4. agree

[CrispyQ]

5. It's a grim situation, that's for sure.

Some clever DU'er suggested we appease the originalists & shrink the court back to six, & let the last three go. It would be an improvement.

[Sneederbunk]

6. How about indicting Thomas and Alito for starters?

[2naSalit]

7. +1

And a real FBI investigation into boofboi.

[Blue Owl]

15. +2

[HardPort]

8. There should be one Justice for each circuit, as was once the tradition.

Win the House and Senate and keep the WH, and a simple piece of legislation could give Joe four nominees and sanity a 7-6 majority.

[Cyrano]

9. Sorry, HardPort, you lost me

What piece of legislation are you referring to?

[Cyrano]

13. Okay, HardPort. I just reread it and I get it.

However, the "tradition" no longer exists. And, unfortunately, American justice no longer exists at this time.

[budkin]

10. But her emails

At least Hillary was stopped! /sarcasm

[roamer65]

11. The Hughes Court, Part II the Sequel.

[NowISeetheLight]

14. Use the Courts & Laws Against Them

Use the courts decisions and the GQP laws against them. Want to ban books for sex and violence, then ban the Bible. Want parents rights, then sue for separate library cards and the right to opt-out not ban everyone? Want freedom of abortion choice, then sue claiming your religion is being oppressed?

These are things already being done. We need to get more creative.

[Prairie_Seagull]

17. To overturn a 'Law of the land' It should be considered to leave it to a vote of the people.

Don't know what the hell this would take. Just thinking. Let the court interpret existing laws made by the people through their elected officials. Am I stoned or what? Well yes but that never stopped me before.