Ending Roe Is Institutional Suicide for Supreme Court

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ending-roe-is-institutional-suicide-for-supreme-court/2022/06/24/b76e7650-f3db-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html

The Supreme court should be abolished, it's outlived it's usefulness and now has usurped it's constitutional role and overreached it's authority and as such as an institution should be dismantled at this point. There's no reason for it to even exist because it's no longer doing the job the framers intended it to do

forget PACKING the court, ABOLISH THE COURT. it should be eliminated from existence for what it did today.

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MistyCee

Respectfully, I don't think abolishing the Surpreme Court without a plan on place to replace it is a good idea.

The legitimacy of the modern court depends on its capacity to protect the vulnerable by limiting how the majority can infringe on basic rights to liberty and equality.

This, IMO, is a very myopic view of the role of the Court, and while I'm not totally opposed to restructuring the Consititution or the three branches of Federal Government it establishes, half assedly deciding to get rid of one of them without replacing the entire structure with a better one seems like lunacy.

Congress can't handle the load, and I'll be damned if I want the Executive doing it.

I share your frustration at what the Court has done, and your concerns about where it's going, but burning down the house, before we figure out how to replace it, doesnt seem like a viable option.

And, to be clear, my opinion about "draining the swamp" before planning on what to fill it in with, has nothing to do with how well it will sell or whether it could be accomplished politically.

I f-cking like government, even bad government, as opposed to anarchy. Call me a Conservative or a fan of civilization, or whatever, but I prefer to not return to a state of nature.

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MistyCee

@BetweenKittensandRiots I'm with you on judicial overreach and activism, but I remember the same criticisms being laid on the Warren and Burger Court, especially with Roe.

What do you propose to place the judiciary with?

Are you even willing to accept a Court without Judicial Review? We surely wouldn't have had Roe without it.

BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP

@MistyCee That's the irony in such a huge way, these fuckers laid that critiqiue on Warren and now they're overrreaching and engaged in the self same judicial activism they swore to destroy. for what it's worth I liked the warren and burger court as a history student but now it's barf inducing. America is going downhill and the culprit is SCOTUS.

MistyCee

@BetweenKittensandRiots picking a culprit (or scapegoat) is easy, but does abolishing the office of culprits solve the problem?

This really does seem almost as simplistic and misguided as "draining the swamp."

What, of anything, mediates between the legislative and executive branch?

And if it's nothing, are we actually better off?

I really hate the idea of revolting first, and hoping we're better off with whatever happens afterwards.

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