silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoJustice Alito tells Congress he will not recuse from Jan. 6-related caseswapo.stexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1231arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·4 months agoLet’s be perfectly clear here: Mitch McConnell has led to a corrupt SCOTUS, not Congress.
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-24 months agocongress could remove alito today, if they wanted. so, why havent they? oh yeah, a huge percent of them are his corrupt allies. Annnnnnd its well known that mcconnel was just the front man taking the heat for our shitty congress . he wasnt working alone, in a vacuum.
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·4 months agoYou’re using the word “Congress” to refer to Congressional Republicans, and it’s disingenuous.
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down7·4 months agonaw. i meant what i said. dems are complicit here. hell, the if dems had any testicles they would remove the filibuster and get on with actual governing.
minus-squareMegaUltraChicken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·4 months ago hell, the if dems had any testicles they would remove the filibuster and get on with actual governing. They did… That’s why McConnell was able to get the current picks in. SCOTUS picks just need a simple majority in the Senate.
Let’s be perfectly clear here: Mitch McConnell has led to a corrupt SCOTUS, not Congress.
congress could remove alito today, if they wanted.
so, why havent they? oh yeah, a huge percent of them are his corrupt allies.
Annnnnnd its well known that mcconnel was just the front man taking the heat for our shitty congress . he wasnt working alone, in a vacuum.
You’re using the word “Congress” to refer to Congressional Republicans, and it’s disingenuous.
naw. i meant what i said. dems are complicit here.
hell, the if dems had any testicles they would remove the filibuster and get on with actual governing.
They did… That’s why McConnell was able to get the current picks in. SCOTUS picks just need a simple majority in the Senate.