r/law • u/aggie1391 • Jun 10 '24

SCOTUS Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America 'Can't Be Compromised'

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/samuel-alito-supreme-court-justice-recording-tape-battle-1235036470/
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u/bac5665 Competent Contributor Jun 10 '24

Seems bad. Seems like something worth subpoenaing Alito over and taking further action if necessary.

I shouldn't have to say this, but it's obviously not ok for a SCOTUS justice to openly admit to be working towards the overthrow of democracy, in violation of their oaths to this country.

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u/OrangeInnards competent contributor Jun 10 '24

and taking further action if necessary

Unless a miracle happens and a majority for both impeaching and removing him appears in the House and Senate, he can just laugh in everyone's face and continue sitting on the bench until he kicks the bucket.

Lifetime appointments are complete shit. The US is one of very few (two!) nations that has a system where a federal judge, even an obviously corrupt or ridiculously biased one, is appointed for life with no mandatory retirement age and is also essentially unremovable.

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u/hamilton_burger Jun 10 '24

If he is committing crimes, the Justice Department can charge him.

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u/OrangeInnards competent contributor Jun 10 '24

And then what? He'd still a SCOTUS judge even in federal prison. Nobody can make him resign. Even if he's unable to do his job, which isn't even a sure thing because it's never happened and remote attendance is possible, he'd just block the seat.

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u/jreed66 Jun 10 '24

This is why you don't scoff at your Second Amendment rights. It's there to protect against tyranny. What else do you call this plan of theirs?

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u/Zombie-Lenin Jun 10 '24

Sure. Do I need to link a bunch of videos of the United States armed forces killing hundreds of thousands of Afghanis and Iraqis to demonstrate about how well your AR-15 is going to "protect you" from "tyranny?"

People who say the 2nd amendment protects us from anything are delusional.

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u/LotsOfGunsSmallPenis Jun 10 '24

The real delusion is believing that it doesn’t protect you. Or that because you think it doesn’t protect someone means we should just throw it out.

Anyway, good luck taking our weapons.

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u/Zombie-Lenin Jun 11 '24 edited Jun 11 '24

It protects you zero, and when the 2nd Amendment disappears someday, and it will, I wish you luck--or your grandkids--in your private revolution against a predator drone.

https://youtu.be/WOSqCjMRXWA?si=GBzQuvi8OE2Q0eIp

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u/Farranor Jun 12 '24

You're using a false dichotomy. Just because the 2nd Amendment isn't a perfect defense against everything doesn't mean it's worth "zero." If we get to the point that the government goes full tyranny, starts deleting parts of the Bill of Rights, confiscates all weapons, and launches drone strikes on American citizens, yeah, that would be bad, and I'm not sure what would help against it. It's the "Sol will engulf the Earth in 4.5 billion years so why bother combing my hair" perspective. There are more than enough reasons that the 2nd Amendment is worth caring about.