VictorK
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I don't think you do need to amend the constitution to create a new court of last resort. You just have to give the supreme court's appellate jurisdiction to the new Court of Final Appeals, which could be staffed however you want.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I don't think you do need to amend the constitution to create a new court of last resort. You just have to give the supreme court's appellate jurisdiction to the new Court of Final Appeals, which could be staffed however you want.
As someone who clerked on the Ninth, it's really not that bad. The problem with splitting it is someone has to take California, you need all those other states to balance it out.
December 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
As someone who clerked on the Ninth, it's really not that bad. The problem with splitting it is someone has to take California, you need all those other states to balance it out.
You do need a court of last resort to resolve conflicts between the circuits.
December 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
You do need a court of last resort to resolve conflicts between the circuits.
Yes, this is the nuclear Court of Final Appeals plan: just replace the court.
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yes, this is the nuclear Court of Final Appeals plan: just replace the court.
Now I understand what they meant by communism in one country.
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Now I understand what they meant by communism in one country.
Ooo, rare Wallenstein reference.
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ooo, rare Wallenstein reference.
It's hard to express my anger and disgust when they played the Battle Hymn for Trump's inauguration.
December 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's hard to express my anger and disgust when they played the Battle Hymn for Trump's inauguration.
Our norms are eroding when he who has smelt it won't acknowledge he has dealt it.
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our norms are eroding when he who has smelt it won't acknowledge he has dealt it.
I'd be mad but I'm just happy to escape the trap.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'd be mad but I'm just happy to escape the trap.
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If the executive is the sole branch of the government fully accountable to the people, is immune from criminal prosecution for their actions, can fire anyone who doesn't interpret the law consistent with their priorities, then what use are courts? The executive power is the whole power.
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
If the executive is the sole branch of the government fully accountable to the people, is immune from criminal prosecution for their actions, can fire anyone who doesn't interpret the law consistent with their priorities, then what use are courts? The executive power is the whole power.
As much as I froth and rail against this revolutionary court, I fear we will have to accommodate ourselves to a presidential regime. Power tends to only ratchet one way, and having sown the seeds to executive quasi-dictatorship, the court too must reap what it has sown.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
As much as I froth and rail against this revolutionary court, I fear we will have to accommodate ourselves to a presidential regime. Power tends to only ratchet one way, and having sown the seeds to executive quasi-dictatorship, the court too must reap what it has sown.
This is definitely a grift, but there's a market for it. This shit is what our leaders apparently want to hear, and why not? It's simple and promises the moon. The problem isn't just the grifters it's that our leaders are marks.
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is definitely a grift, but there's a market for it. This shit is what our leaders apparently want to hear, and why not? It's simple and promises the moon. The problem isn't just the grifters it's that our leaders are marks.
And much maligned realism is hanging in the wings like a memento mori, whispering in your ear: "All of this has a cost, and none of you are willing to pay it."
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
And much maligned realism is hanging in the wings like a memento mori, whispering in your ear: "All of this has a cost, and none of you are willing to pay it."
Especially in a naval conflict! The longest industrial lead times there are. And an area of warfare prone to decisive confrontations.
December 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Especially in a naval conflict! The longest industrial lead times there are. And an area of warfare prone to decisive confrontations.
The only country that can get away with this is Russia (and maybe the US, but it's untested). The only reason France fell and the Soviets stood is because it's a lot further to Moscow than to Paris.
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The only country that can get away with this is Russia (and maybe the US, but it's untested). The only reason France fell and the Soviets stood is because it's a lot further to Moscow than to Paris.
It also confuses what the Court cares about. The Court isn't interested in protecting these flunkies, it's interested in advancing the conservative legal agenda to remake the executive branch into a quasi-dictatorship. Trump's personal beefs are not the Court's.
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It also confuses what the Court cares about. The Court isn't interested in protecting these flunkies, it's interested in advancing the conservative legal agenda to remake the executive branch into a quasi-dictatorship. Trump's personal beefs are not the Court's.
A simple act of legislation could all but end the Supreme Court as we know it. Congress gives the Court its power and it can take almost all of it away.
December 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A simple act of legislation could all but end the Supreme Court as we know it. Congress gives the Court its power and it can take almost all of it away.
Oh, it can be reviewed by the judiciary. We just gave appellate jurisdiction to the newly-created Court of Final Appeals that we stocked with a bunch of judges we just picked.
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Oh, it can be reviewed by the judiciary. We just gave appellate jurisdiction to the newly-created Court of Final Appeals that we stocked with a bunch of judges we just picked.
If a ruling that effect doesn't spur Congress to crush this revolutionary Supreme Court I don't know what will.
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If a ruling that effect doesn't spur Congress to crush this revolutionary Supreme Court I don't know what will.
Point is, conservatives are really bad at picking the instruments through which they will dismantle the liberal state. They're like the underpants gnomes but for fascist losers.
December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Point is, conservatives are really bad at picking the instruments through which they will dismantle the liberal state. They're like the underpants gnomes but for fascist losers.
Listening to the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich it's kind of amazing that the conservatives, either monarchists or advocates for a military dictatorship, took apart the Weimar Republic and handed supreme power over to Adolf Hitler, whom they themselves regarded as an unserious clown.
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Listening to the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich it's kind of amazing that the conservatives, either monarchists or advocates for a military dictatorship, took apart the Weimar Republic and handed supreme power over to Adolf Hitler, whom they themselves regarded as an unserious clown.
We're going to need a Congress willing to crush the Supreme Court.
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We're going to need a Congress willing to crush the Supreme Court.
Comrade Roberts and the separatchiks prepare for the revolutionary expansion of the dictatorship of the executariat.
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Comrade Roberts and the separatchiks prepare for the revolutionary expansion of the dictatorship of the executariat.
It's also really hard to face up to a peer competitor and prepare for a war that's going to get a lot of people killed and wreck US power. Psychologically easier to focus on simple stuff like blowing up fishermen and bombing Middle Eastern countries.
December 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's also really hard to face up to a peer competitor and prepare for a war that's going to get a lot of people killed and wreck US power. Psychologically easier to focus on simple stuff like blowing up fishermen and bombing Middle Eastern countries.
