From the start of September, while she was on The View:
Sotomayor agreed that while the Constitution was settled law, no one had ever challenged the 22nd Amendment regarding running for a third-term.
“No one has tried to challenge that. Until somebody tries, you don’t know. So, it’s not settled because we don’t have a court case about that issue, but it is in the Constitution,” she said.
“And one should understand that there’s nothing that’s the greater law in the United States than the Constitution of the United States,” she added.
There’s nothing greater than the constitution! We can change it any time a court case comes up, but there’s nothing greater
There’s nothing greater than the constitution! We can change it any time a court case comes up, but there’s nothing greater
This has always been a bit of doublespeak that particularly annoyed me from my family/colleagues.
If I wanna be really generous to Sotomayor she might only be talking about in her capacity as a Supreme Court Justice. Since the only changes that can be made to the Constitution have to be ratified through either the house+senate or a national convention called by the states. For anyone in the judicial branch, the constitution might as well never change because it’s not their job to change it or propose changes. Their job is to interpret the words and say what the constitution means.
But yeah if just a normal person says the constitution can’t change that’s nonsense. My favorite is when some chud will say the constitution is final/immutable and yet they’ll have a 2nd amendment tattoo or something. Like dude the 2nd amendment is a change that was made to the constitution.
why even have a constitution if you’re gonna be all english about it?! nothing makes sense about the US
Makes perfect sense from the purview of the rich and powerful
You don’t want the peasants thinking they can change certain things, but you want to have all of your own options open
Heads I win, tails you lose.If it’s SETTLED LAW then how the fuck can it be challenged, fuckass
Judicial review is complete bullshit
I think that the first person in trouble for a supreme court case should just get a warning and be free to go. Like how was I supposed to know allat?
ICE is going to monitor voting areas and blackbag minorities who try to vote. They are already branching out into death squad shit, maybe it will be worse.
Oops too many people voted, that’s bad.
I don’t remember truly, but I thought it was giga low turnout because everyone hated the two options
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What if he’s just taking about Brandon winning the election. And like if another Dem won in 2028 he’d be cool with it
We are not getting another election, so i don’t know why he is pretending.
Nah we’ll get “elections.” The propaganda value is too strong.
I think so too, but i also think Trump is dumb enough to actually cancel elections altogether.
Yeah ok you’re right, he is dumb enough to do that
