Justice Elena Kagan declined Thursday to outright answer the question of whether Congress could impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court, but she did allow that it could do “various things” to regulate the high court.
“It just can’t be that the court is the only institution that is somehow not subject to any checks and balances from anybody else,” she said, adding, “I mean, we are not imperial.”
“We, too, are part of a checks and balances system,” she said.
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I’d say it a pretty strong indicator that they shouldn’t have the job they have.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
Seems pretty clear.
Even if they want to say they can only regulate jurisdiction, then fine, take away their jurisdiction. We’ll just have circuit splits.
She’s changed her mind since April, when all 9 said there was no need for oversight. Glad to hear she’s coming around, if a bit late.
She’s not coming around. She knows it doesn’t matter what she says, so she might as well say something that makes her look good. She’s just as full of shit as the rest of them.
it must be really f’in weird to be on the supreme court, like, “oh my esteemed colleague who watches Long Dong Silver and takes obvious bribes constantly and I’m uh, we could like uh… make policy that helps people…”
Kagan actually respects the system of government, unlike every other justice. They want to act like they’re above everyone else, fuck that.
Just because you say it, that doesn’t mean it’s true.
