The Supreme Court is about to run out of money, and federal courts across the country are expected to run out by early next week because of the government shutdown.
The nation’s top court “expects to run out of funding on October 18,” Patricia McCabe, Supreme Court public information officer, told The Hill.
“As a result, the Supreme Court Building will be closed to the public until further notice. The Building will remain open for official business,” McCabe continued.
Nothing to stop him now except us.
Does this mean we can lay them off?
/s
No, actually, only Congress can remove a SCOTUS judge with a senate majority of 67 and a simple house majority.
But if they did get laid off or if they died then they would no longer qualify for backpay under current Trump admin. (Courts might challenge this).
Unfortunately SCOTUS judge appointments can no longer be fillibustered, AFAIK, so tbey could be replaced very easily even without the DNC.
DNC would need to control a chamber of congress and leadership would need a spine to do what McConnell did right back to them. No filibuster just never bring the vote up but since Rs have a trifecta it doesn’t matter.
a chamber of congress
The senate*. The house is not involved in confirmation of presidential appointments. Due to the staggered elections in the senate, the democrats cannot realistically regain control of the senate until January 3, 2029, since its a 53-47 majority right now, and amongst the seats up for election in 2026, I only realistically see Maine getting flipped, the other red seats are highly unlikely to get flipped. A total of 4 flipped seats are needed to block confirmations.
Map of which the seats up for election and color means the party of incumbent, greyed out states have no senators up for reelection (excluding the 2 special election in deep red states, which would never be blue anyways):
Yeah, idk my info bubble doesn’t give me a great feel for other places but so long as fair elections happen I’ve still got hope right now (though that varies…). Republicans are easily (and rightfully) blamed for a lot of stuff that is making life worse/harder for average Americans right now. Even many deep red states did have high level Democrat representation not too long ago, the surge in progressive representation and voices in my locale and state gives me some belief we can still eke out some positive progress.
On the bright side, at least the bad decisions will stop for a brief period.
Why? It’s only closed to the public, not for official business.
Yeah. At best the supreme court steamrolling will only be slowed.
Well, there goes that thought.
Nope, the complete dissolution of the court was always the plan, something like:
The president is the ultimate authority in America.
That’s why Barret is on there.
She’s from a cult where women are completely subservient, can’t speak against any man. And until Handmaids Tale was popular, she was literally called a handmaid.
That’s why she said she couldn’t enforce any rulings, she doesn’t think she has any agency. She was out there by a man and she’ll say and do anything that man says too, I clouding telling the public the SC is pointless and can’t enforce anything.
The only bright side is the masses might understand that alternating between Nazis and neoliberals keeps the same oligarchs stealing the same wealth from all of us.
They want us fighting about which path is best, when they’re two of the worst options.
They’re not the only two choices.
Probably won’t affect Clarence “no bribe too small” Thomas. His “friends” will take care of his sleazy ass.
Fucker’s probably got his RV warming up as we speak.
Money is free speech
They’re all rich anyway
Close the Supreme clownshow. Close the federal government forever, let the Untied States split into 55 independent countries
As much as I would like to not be tied to red states, the fight for federal assets and military assets would bring a lot of bloodshed. Also, most states do have nukes.
How’s the view from Russia?
You’re half right - Russia is in Europe, but that does not mean all Europeans are Russian. But from Europe, the view is good. Could have been better if you didn’t elect trump, but still.
Would have*
Life. The world in general. Some little kids. History. All that would have been better if the obese orange sicko was never born.
So true.
About your edit on my wording: does both not work in this context? My mother tongue is Norwegian, so I’d like to know how I can improve my English language.
Could = possibly. Would = definitively.
Yeah, I’m gonna agree with you. Should have used would.
In general your wording is correct. And your English language is far better than I’ve seen from a lot of the native speakers here in England.
The word could does mean possibly.
The thing is with a person like tRUMP there should be no vagueness or ambiguity.Seriously, your English is great. I wouldn’t have guessed it was your second language.
Getting better everyday
Does this mean security for judges stops?
Maybe start a go fund me to bribe said??? For ???
Someone get on Etsy and hire some witches……
Oh no how unfortunate.
All according to plan…probably
So they still get paid during the shutdown?
Maybe we could all pitch in an RV full of naked woman (consenting adults on the job) to get some of our rights back?
A nobody got an RV full of naked consenting women? Its for a good cause.
Best I can offer is binders full of women.
That won’t get us rights! But maybe we can save one endangered animal from epa anti environment policy? We’ll need a hundred bucks and a pack of condoms lol.
So they can be bought
They already were.
Maybe they’re moving to a monthly subscription? Supreme Court Max Pro Plus HD Gold Tier
