Supreme Court Jurisdiction Stripping - Congress needs to play hardball
Congress has the power to construct, regulate and establish courts. It's time to start looking at what is possible.
- Congress can't strip the supreme court of its "original jurisdiction" as detailed in the constitution, but congress can strip their appeal jurisdiction.
- Congress can determine the number of federal courts, and the number of justices on those courts and the supreme court. That should be on the table.
- Congress can pass legislation to make it comply with supreme court decisions. The removal of the senate filibuster if Dems take the senate should be on the table. With the House and Senate, congress could:
- Renew the "entire" Civil Rights Act", the Voting Rights Act, and cement Roe and Ogberfell.
- Make election day a National Holliday
- Statehood for Puerto Rico, DC, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Marianis Islands.
- Pass a $1 Tax to fund the ACA, thus removing the silly bullshit the supreme court is trying to use to nullify the entire statute.
- Why not find the most wingnut conservative federal circuit court and just fucking eliminate the entire fucking circuit?
I think the Retrumplicans are going to ram this Nurse Crachet down our throats, so they need to know Dems are going to bring the pain.
Expand the Court
Strip their appeal jurisdiction
Cut their funding. Write your fucking bullshit rulings on manual typewriters you fucking pricks.
When the Retrumplicans wail and gnash their teeth, just remind them of what Thomas Jefferson said about "judicial review".
"You seem ... to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps ... Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves."
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We must do this ASAP! 
