In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.
What in the actual fuck did I just read? The supreme court needs to be expanded and a strict code of involuntary ethics applied immediately. It sounds like the backers bought the entire lodge just to make this trip happen, as they sold it within a year after the trip? I’m not sure I’m getting that right. This country is so fucked.
Conservatism is a plague of deception, corruption and oppression. It always has been.
Corruption is on parade. What a ridiculous system of government we have allowed to develop.
Im pretty sure I will be dead before we have a functioning supreme court if that ever even happens at this point.
It will require a constitutional amendment, and one of the two parties in this country tries to act like you can’t change the constitution, even though we changed it as recently as the 1990s, and have effectively averaged 1 amendment per decade
I meant meaningful long term change that removes corrupt justices through due process and can’t just be undone the next time one party or the other holds both houses and the presidency
As they are lifetime appointments, our only options are either packing the courts, impeachment (which requires 2/3 votes,) or human mortality.
The Constitution allows for the impeachment and removal of justices in much the same manner as a president: The House can vote for impeachment, and then a Senate trial is held, with a two-thirds vote needed to convict. source
That’s a conflict.