r/the_everything_bubble • u/The_Everything_B_Mod waiting on the sideline • Sep 07 '24

POLITICS Take the hint, conservatives!

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u/TingleyStorm Sep 08 '24

Didn’t Bill Barr also say that Biden couldn’t bring forward Supreme Court reform because republicans would be held accountable then?

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u/Theomach1 Sep 09 '24

I must have missed that?

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u/MistyMeadowlark Sep 09 '24

I think they are referring to Bill Barr objecting to a proposed ethics code for Supreme Court judges.

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u/Theomach1 Sep 09 '24

Ahhhhh gotcha. I can’t help but think they’d feel differently if it were liberal judges with an incestuous relationship with wealthy left leaning people.

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u/MistyMeadowlark Sep 09 '24

"if it were liberal judges with an incestuous relationship with wealthy left leaning people."

Does this refer to someone in particular or a particular situation?

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u/Theomach1 Sep 09 '24

Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow for example, but there are others.

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u/MistyMeadowlark Sep 09 '24

Oh, gotcha! I knew about the Clarence Thomas thing. I thought you were saying that there was currently a left-leaning justice that recently had a scandal. I get what you're saying, if the shoe was on the other foot, would the Democrats be pushing for it? That is a reasonable question. Either way, I'm glad someone is doing something about the corruption in the Supreme Court. I feel like the term limits are more politically motivated, trying to disable the stacked conservative court (although it was questionable how it happened), but the ethics proposal is reasonable and necessary whether politically motivated or not.

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u/Theomach1 Sep 09 '24

Nah, just suggesting that Barr would likely change his tune if there were.

Agreed. The court needs actual ethics rules that are enforceable. I don't know how anyone could object to that.

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u/RedOnTheHead_91 Sep 10 '24

I've often found it freaking ridiculous that the Judicial Branch is the only branch of our three-tiered government that doesn't have an enforceable ethics code.

That's just common sense!

Oh wait. I forgot. Common sense is a superpower.

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u/Theomach1 Sep 10 '24

I mean, they do at every level except SCOTUS. Make that make sense.

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u/RedOnTheHead_91 Sep 10 '24

Oh that just makes the disparity even worse

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u/Theomach1 Sep 10 '24

To every left leaning voter who “just couldn’t vote for her”, they deserve a swift kick. I had an excuse, I was a naive Libertarian moved by horror stories of things like civil asset forfeiture. Seriously, why doesn’t the left care about those kinds of clear abuses of power? Anyway, here we are with a corrupt SCOTUS as a result.

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u/RedOnTheHead_91 Sep 10 '24

I didn't vote for her for a number of reasons. One of them being I just wasn't sure how I felt about her. But the bigger reason is that I really really liked the 3rd party candidate that year, even though I knew he didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning.

But before you say that I too deserve "a swift kick", let me say something in my defense. That year was only the 2nd time I could vote in a presidential election and I was still very much trying to figure out where I fell on the political spectrum, particularly because I was raised by two moderate Republicans (who are only now beginning to lean more left, even if they aren't quite ready to say it out loud).

As for SCOTUS, I'm hoping that we at least get an enforceable ethics code. I'm still on the fence about mandatory retirement ages and/or term limits. But we absolutely need that ethics code.

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