The Supreme Court is clearing the way for federal agents to conduct sweeping immigration operations in Los Angeles, another victory for President Donald Trump at the high court.
In particular, arrest because of race or language spoken is now allowed
they’ve been meaningless since day 1; right away there needed to be “amendments” for instance. and depending on who is in power, more amendments come and go…
Amendments aren’t tied to presidents though. They are tied to 2/3rds votes of representatives (or a bunch of states demanding a convention and then passing one without it being able to be blocked)
Yeah these judges seem to be straying pretty far from past rulings, but it seems to be a recent problem. It seemed rare for the supreme Court to hear something they had already made precedent on before until the last decade, but maybe that’s just because I’ve paid more attention the last 10 years
It seems to be going (has gone) that way. The stand out Amendment there might be the 22nd. Where Republicans majority voted to put 2 term limits on the presidency when it was a sitting Democrat. (Granted it was promoted by FDR I believe once he got his 4 election wins)
they’ve been meaningless since day 1; right away there needed to be “amendments” for instance. and depending on who is in power, more amendments come and go…
Amendments aren’t tied to presidents though. They are tied to 2/3rds votes of representatives (or a bunch of states demanding a convention and then passing one without it being able to be blocked)
I think what they are saying is that depending on who is president, amendments can be temporarily interpreted by the Supreme Court to not exist at all
Yeah these judges seem to be straying pretty far from past rulings, but it seems to be a recent problem. It seemed rare for the supreme Court to hear something they had already made precedent on before until the last decade, but maybe that’s just because I’ve paid more attention the last 10 years
true but they are tied to “regimes” on the whole combined with an ever moving Overton Window…
It seems to be going (has gone) that way. The stand out Amendment there might be the 22nd. Where Republicans majority voted to put 2 term limits on the presidency when it was a sitting Democrat. (Granted it was promoted by FDR I believe once he got his 4 election wins)