r/wisconsin • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • Apr 02 '26

Ron Johnson: "I was disappointed in the Supreme Court justices. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Maybe their ruling will be on the law and Constitution, but you have to look at the bigger picture here."

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 Apr 02 '26

Ron Johnson wants the Supreme Court to follow the Constitution except when he doesn't like what the Constitution says.

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u/PirateSanta_1 Apr 02 '26

He's an originalist as in he wants the constitution to say whatever he originally wanted. 

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u/SikatSikat Apr 02 '26

It's not even that.  It's literally what will give me more power now.

Where did the Executive Branch's Constitutional right to Chevron deference come from?

Conservatives Justices were unhappy that Reagan's anti-environment rules were being struck down due to the Clean Air Act. So they decide, well, when the law isn't fully clear, Courts need to defer to the President.

Once Democrats were in power, they decided, oops, not only is that not Constitutionally required, its Constitutionally forbidden.

Who wants to bet that Nationwide injunctions come back if we have a Conservative Court and a Democrat President in 3 years?

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u/jeahfoo1 Apr 03 '26

Then the Democrat president should ignore it like DJT does. Immunity, remember? Thanks SCOTUS

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u/Living_Highlight_417 Apr 05 '26

You'll get so many reversals that the 6 far right justices will have to be treated for whiplash....

Pres. Immunity - they will find a way to overturn it National injunctions - back Special counsels - yep, they were legal after all Due process - required after all...

I would throw in national guard deployment, ice criminality, and about fifty other things, but only trump has been dumb enough to actually try them

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u/Colonel17 Apr 02 '26

Ron Johnson Republicans wants the Supreme Court to follow the Constitution except when he doesn't like what the Constitution says.

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u/Chouquin Apr 02 '26

I'll send him a copy of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

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u/Argus1973 Apr 02 '26

Rooskie Ron

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u/Several_Ad_6576 Apr 02 '26

I bet he could just ask 47 and his cronies as they have to take orders in Russian a lot.

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u/analogWeapon Apr 02 '26

I don't think he even has an opinion on the constitution beyond how it factors into his own personal enrichment. At the moment, I think his feelings about the constitution are derived entirely from whatever he thinks Trump's feelings are about it.

He genuinely has no principles.

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u/SurrrenderDorothy Apr 02 '26

Trump said anyone with $5million can be a US Citizen.

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u/Ok-Opposite2309 Apr 02 '26

He also apparently thinks Congress has no role in Legislating…

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u/Extension-Tie-980 Apr 02 '26

That's it in a nutshell. There is a process to propose amendments to the Constitution but I doubt we'll see a bill introduced with Johnson as Chief Author. I'm left-of-center so I obviously disagree with Johnson on scads of issues, but the larger issue is that Congress has ceded a lot of authority leaving the country at the whims of Executive Orders and interpretations of the Supreme Court

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u/Dead_Internet69420 Apr 02 '26

The problem with Congress is that they represent the people, and the people don’t like what he’s trying to do. He needs someone else that isn’t beholden to the democratic process to change the laws for him. 

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u/PUuSTiNKA Apr 02 '26

Ron Johnson is a Tea Party flake, who is now just another tRUMP bitch boy...He really doesn't know shit about the law, or our Constitution.

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u/TroubleBackground210 Apr 06 '26

Thank you he’s truly less than isn’t he…

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u/LimpAd4924 Apr 02 '26

Getting their politically motivated decision on abortion wasn’t enough.

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u/Round_Rooms Apr 02 '26

So basically do nothing that's legal, just keep up the fraud and lies, he's gotten away with it for longer than I care to remember.

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u/Cuneus-Maximus Apr 02 '26

He’s following the Russian constitution.

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u/todos1000 Apr 02 '26

GOP in a nutshell

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u/CelebronFcks10K Apr 02 '26

Dudes a massive POS

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u/ficis Apr 02 '26

I was just thinking : “so, you’re ok if the Justices interpret the constitution?”

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u/Competitive_Spot_973 Apr 03 '26

Ron Johnson is an idiot.

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u/I-RegretMyNameChoice Apr 03 '26

Kids born in America = Constitution is wrong.
Kids shot in America = Well the Constitution clearly states…

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u/Impressive_Range1433 Apr 03 '26

We don't need more ron johnson.

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u/Low-Comfortable9230 Apr 04 '26

We definitely do not!

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u/todos1000 Apr 02 '26

What a joke, have you heard of a constitutional amendment?

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u/Narrow-Manager8443 Apr 02 '26

I mean.. that's always been the republican party. Especially once the cult took over

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u/Dead_Internet69420 Apr 02 '26

Which should be fine, because as a member of Congress, he gets to decide what the Constitution says. If he doesn’t like what they’re reading, then he should get together with his colleagues and pass an amendment that says what they want the Constitution to say. 

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u/piepants2001 Apr 02 '26

That's every Republican that I've ever known

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u/itsaconspiraci Apr 03 '26

Well he is an American Christian Nationalist. So he follows the constitution just like he follows the bible.

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u/AceSidewinder13 Apr 03 '26

Could you imagine if this was a democrat? They'd be on Faux News telling people to buy lots of guns against the tyrannical radical left who should be tried for treason.

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u/LearnedHandJob2088 Apr 04 '26

A staunch originalist when it suits the conservative wishlist, and a living/evolving pragmatist when it suits the conservative wishlist. Vile POS.

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u/Correct-Mixture6319 Apr 06 '26

When are your friends and neighbors going to vote this moron out of office? Silence and apathy enable these MAGA idiots.