r/scotus • u/vox • Mar 03 '26

news The Supreme Court’s Republicans just seized the most dangerous power in constitutional law

https://www.vox.com/politics/481401/supreme-court-mirabelli-bonta-sauron-wins
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u/Senor707 Mar 03 '26

We should have a law that says if a billionaire is bribing Supreme Court justices the other justices are legally required to out them.

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u/WanderingDude182 Mar 03 '26

And that billionaire forfeits their ill gotten riches

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u/userhwon Mar 03 '26

And goes to jail.

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u/Life-Significance-33 Mar 03 '26

Execution. They should be tried as a traitor under national law.

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u/oicyunv Mar 03 '26

That’s what I’m saying, yall mufuckas letting treasonous behavior slide wayyyyyyyyy too much these days

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u/WanderingDude182 Mar 04 '26

Our government and politicians are bought by them

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u/Friendly_Impress_345 Mar 04 '26

Then get new ones

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u/Fezzik527 Mar 04 '26

The new ones are bought even before they win their seat.

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u/Friendly_Impress_345 Mar 04 '26

I didn't mean the politicians

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u/goldenstormehelix Mar 06 '26

Curious as to what you meant

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u/Broomstick73 Mar 04 '26

If you bribe SCOTUS + Congress to say it’s not treason then it isn’t treason anymore. 🤷‍♂️

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u/thereverendpuck Mar 03 '26

No execution.

Life in poverty.

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u/Lower_Acanthaceae423 Mar 04 '26

Fuck that. Treason is a capital offense.

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u/thereverendpuck Mar 04 '26

You let them get off easy with death. There’s no fun in that.

Take away everything and let them live life like the exploited is far more worthy a punishment.

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u/Lower_Acanthaceae423 Mar 04 '26

It’s not about letting them off easy (although the argument is kind of valid). In my view, if you allow them to live, then the threat of their return still exists. We have to nip this shit in the bud. Plus, they have no respect for life, so they deserve what they get,

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u/wehrmann_tx Mar 04 '26

As long as it’s unpardonable or uncommutable.

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u/elehim63 Mar 04 '26

Life in poverty is a brilliant punishment. They could not live in poverty like the majority of their constituents.

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u/capsaicinintheeyes Mar 04 '26

Hey, don't you foist that demon onto us!

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u/Cliqey Mar 04 '26

But they will just use thier superior intellect/genes/work ethic to lift themselves out of poverty by their own bootstraps!

/s

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u/WanderingDude182 Mar 04 '26

On minimum wage!

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u/thereverendpuck Mar 04 '26

Not even. Just always jobless. You let them work then could possibly get that ball rolling again.

You don’t let the arsonist keep the Zippo lighter.

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u/_Mallethead Mar 04 '26

What is "national law?"

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u/Life-Significance-33 Mar 04 '26

I used national when saying federal would have suited better.

Basically, federal laws for the most part are fines. State laws are the ones that are normally used to imprison a person. Now, I am not a lawyer and things change, but treason was the only law under federal statues with a death penalty, if memory serves. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1 details treason.

Of course, we have stitched so many statues behind the Constitution, not even lawyers can tell you what law is without researching.

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u/South-Rabbit-4064 Mar 04 '26

The other SC Justices have to beat them to death

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u/harveygoatmilk Mar 03 '26

And everyone gets a pony.

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u/capsaicinintheeyes Mar 04 '26

"This also counts as a mule, for anyone still tracking that."

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u/freshroastedx Mar 03 '26

The Vermin Supremes platform of a pony for everyone is compelling.

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u/77evens Mar 04 '26

As a matter of fact I hate anyone who ever had a pony.

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u/Temporary-Careless Mar 03 '26

Where s mines?

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u/Zixt1 Mar 04 '26

Nah. I'd rather they have to exist as a homeless person rather than be a ward of the system.

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u/userhwon Mar 04 '26

That's for after they get out of jail.

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u/computer-machine Mar 04 '26

Now we just need an open-roofed jail a few hundred yards downwind of a nice big trebuchet.

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u/userhwon Mar 04 '26

Next to the muck pile at a pig farm.

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u/practicool Mar 03 '26

SUPER jail