OVER THE LAST 200 YEARS, 95% OF ALL RULINGS FROM THE SUPREME COURT HAVE PROTECTED WALL STREET AND THE RICH. WHO DOES THIS FUCKER THINK HE IS KIDDING?!?
IT IS THE SUPREME COURT, PROTECTORS OF THE COP CRIME CLASS, WHICH DETERMINED THAT COPS WHO MURDER ON BEHALF OF WHITE SUPREMACY SHOULD NOT BE INTERFERRED WITH OR SECOND GUESSED. THIS IS WHY WE HAVE COPS ALL OVER THE NATION BLOWING PEOPLE'S BRIANS OUT. THEY, LIKE THE LAWLESS LAWYER CLASS, OR NOTHING BUT A PROTECTED CRIMINAL CLASS.
Justice Breyer: 'Structural Alteration' of SCOTUS Will Erode Trust That 'Court is Guided by Legal Principles'
(CNS News) -- Perhaps in anticipation of lawmakers' attempts to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said in a speech at Harvard Law School that "structural alteration" of the high court could erode the trust Americans have that the "court is guided by legal principle, not politics."
Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday, April 15, to expand the number of Supreme Court justices from 9 to 13.
In his April 6 speech at Harvard Law School, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer — the court’s senior Democratic appointee — said that advocates of court-packing and other structural changes in the court should “think long and hard before they embody those changes in law.”
Breyer said that the court’s authority relies on “a trust that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics.” He then warned, “Structural alteration motivated by the perception of political influence can only feed that latter perception, further eroding that trust.”
Justice Breyer used court decisions as an example to support his view. Specifically, decisions made to end segregation during the Civil rights era.
“The court had played, not the only role, but one essential role in ending legal segregation,” Breyer said. “The justice of the court’s integration decision helped, in my opinion, to draw respectful and increase the authority of the court.”
“My examples warn against taking that acceptance for granted,” he said. “Well, if we cannot take --and we are on part two now--if we cannot take the court as unchecked, and if we cannot take that acceptance by the public for granted, how can we build or maintain a system that makes acceptance more likely?”
Breyer continued “The rule of law has weathered many threats, but it remains sturdy. I hope and expect that the court will retain its authority--an authority that my stories have shown was hard won. But that authority, like the rule of law, depends on trust, a trust that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics.”
“Structural alteration motivated by the perception of political influence can only feed that latter perception,” he said. “Further eroding trust, there is no shortcut. There’s no shortcut. Trust in the courts without which our system cannot function requires knowledge. It requires understanding. It requires engagement. In a word, it requires work. Work on the part of all citizens. And we must undertake that work together,” Justice Breyer concluded.
Former Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last fall from cancer, was known as one of the most liberal members of the high court. But she also opposed packing the court.
In a July 24, 2019 interview with NPR’s Nina Totenberg, Ginsburg said, "I have heard that there are some people, on the Democratic side, who would like to increase the number of judges.”
"I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court," added Ginsburg.
If FDR's plan had been put in place, she said, "the court's number would have swelled immediately from nine to 15, and the president would have six appointments to make."
"If anything would make the court look partisan, it would be that," said Ginsburg, "one side saying, 'When we're in power, we're going to enlarge the number of judges, so we would have more people who would vote the way we want them to.'"
"So, I am not at all in favor of that solution," said Justice Ginsburg.
Cornel West: American Police ‘Have Been Out of Control Since the Slave Patrol’ — Black People Are ‘Traumatized’
Harvard Divinity School philosophy professor Cornel West declared Wednesday on CNN’s “Tonight” that American police “have been out of control since the slave patrol.”
During the discussion about George Floyd and Daunte Wright, West said, “So the question is what does a general your genuine love for Black people, a genuine care for black people look like in this situation. And there’s a number of different responses to that, but all of us have to come to terms, and we’re not just talking about Black folks, just as a human being who has a deep care and concern about a people who have been dealing with police, who have been out of control since the slave patrol. So we’re talking about hundreds of years. There’s thousands of black people who have been shot down by the police, male and female, children and grandchildren.”
He continued, “How many times have I complied and still got dragged off. I’m a Black man in a three-piece suit. I still get treated bad, not as bad as my brothers and sisters in the hood, but any Black person can be terrorized and traumatized with police out of control. So this notion that somehow if you comply, I tell them to get off the crack pipe and try to get some sympathy and sensitivity to their fellow human beings who are of color who are Black. It is not just Black. It’s brown and indigenous people, but it’s especially Black, white supremacy targets Black folk in that way, and we’ve got to come up with ways of protecting each other and defending each other. We can’t allow this to go on and on and on. Some kind of accountability has to be in place.”
Lemon said, “This distrust of police it didn’t just come out of nowhere. There is a reason for it. There is a reason for it.”
West said, “Absolutely. And the police who claim to be good but still silent when their partners are engaging in this kind of vicious arbitrary use of power against Black folk, they are complicit, too. And it spills over to the politicians who give us a little lip service but don’t want to really send police to jail. Police need to go to jail after a trial.”
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