Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gives a middle finger to Congress: 'No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court — period.'

https://www.businessinsider.com/samuel-alito-said-congress-cant-regulate-the-supreme-court-2023-7

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #CongressAuthority #ConstitutionRegulation #JudicialIndependence #SeparationofPowers #Politics #News

#Israel just lost the right to call itself a #democracy by allowing parliament to overrule the #supremecourt

Democracy is more than just having (fait) elections.
#ruleoflaw and #separationofpowers is ALSO mandatory parts of a functioning democracy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/24/israel-judicial-reform-vote-protests/

But by suggesting the current prosecutors investigating the Bidens were not “real,” #Trump appeared to be promising his supporters that he would appoint an ally who would bring charges against his #political enemies regardless of the #facts.

#Justice #DOJ #Law #SeparationOfPowers #Biden #Garland #ClassifiedDocuments #HunterBiden #politicization #Weaponization #GOP

#Trump’s message was that the #DOJ charged him only because he is #Biden’s political opponent, so he would invert that supposed #politicization. In reality, under #AttorneyGeneral #MerrickGarland, 2 #Trump-appointed prosecutors are already investigating Biden’s handling of #ClassifiedDocuments & the financial dealings of his son, #HunterBiden.

#Justice #Law #SeparationOfPowers #Garland #Weaponization

When #Trump responded to his latest #indictment by promising to appoint a special prosecutor if he’s re-elected to “go after” Pres #Biden & his family, he signaled that a 2nd Trump term would fully jettison the post-Watergate norm of #JusticeDepartmentIndependence.

#Justice #DOJ #Law #SeparationOfPowers #Garland #HunterBiden #politicization #Weaponization
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/us/politics/trump-indictment-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

RT @TimothyDSnyder@twitter.com

4/15. The basis of our Constitution is the separation of powers. When elected representatives take the place of judges and juries, they violate that spirit. They tell citizens that the laws they make are in fact meaningless.

https://nitter.it/TimothyDSnyder/status/1667295263969378304#m

Absolutely, 100% agree. And when Thomas Colby, professor of law says in https://is.gd/rSATYm that we shouldn’t focus on the original meaning of the Constitution, it is exactly the same.
#ruleOfLaw #separationofpowers

#SeparationOfPowers Graham falsely claims all nine justices signed Roberts's letter expressing ethics hearing "concerns"
This is just not true; all nine justices signed a separate ethics statement that did not address the hearing. Graham even questioned the witnesses based on his false premise https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisgeidner/p/graham-judiciary-scotus-ethics-hearing?r=ziwt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Hard to believe Ketanji and Sotomayor would get behind this:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/9-supreme-court-justices-push-back-oversight-raises/story?id=98917921

Maybe they feel they have to work with the others on the bench and don't relish the chex and balances drift anyhow.

Congress should push ahead on Thomas and others anyhow. #scotus #ethics #separationofpowers #billionaires #corruption

A former Premier of Queensland (Bjelke-Petersen) gained notoriety for many reasons, one of which was his inability to explain the doctrine of the separation of powers, a fundamental tenet of Westminster democratic systems.
It seems Guardian journalists also lack knowledge of this basic principle, because the only alternative to unforgivable ignorance is deliberate malice.
In one short headline they’ve also apparently divined what’s contained in a sealed indictment and passed judgment on that as being “right” as well. The contempt for process and principles is amazing.

#ThisIsNotJournalism #uspol #ThreeBranches #SeparationOfPowers #InnocentUntilProvenGuilty

Gideon Sa'ar, ex-Likud member & ex-Justice Minister on Levin's plan to subvert Israel's judicial independence, Separation of powers & the democratic character of the state:

"During his speech tonight, Minister Levin mentioned Menachem Begin, the legendary first leader of the Likud party. But his words were no less than an execution of Begin's democratic and governmental doctrine. There's no doubt that Begin would have rejected each one of the steps in the plan for regime change in Israel. The real students [of Begin] must fight this. And that's what I will do."

#RuleOfLaw #Israel #Democracy #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #SeparationOfPowers #Netanyahu #Corruption #Bribery #Embezzlement #EvasionOfJustice #Insurrection #CoupDEtat
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-01-04/ty-article/.premium/regime-change-israeli-opposition-slams-netanyahus-plan-to-weaken-justice-system/00000185-7e99-d8dd-afcf-7edbfbef0000

😎 Netanyahu's efforts to evade justice by undermining the Separation of Powers in Israel evidently negates the democratic character of the State of Israel, apparently in violation of Section 7A, Amendment No.9:

"7A. A candidates' list shall not participate in elections to the Knesset if its objects or actions, expressly or by implication, include one of the following:

"Prevention of participation of candidates' list

(1) negation of the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people;

***(2) negation of the democratic character of the State;***

(3) incitement to racism."

#RuleOfLaw #SeparationOfPowers #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #Israel #Netanyahu #AttackOnJudiciary #Corruption #Bribery

@kaydenpat @SrRochardBunson Leonard Leo's harmful & subversive meddling with U.S. judiciary appointments needs to come to a quick end. Once & for all!

"But Leo’s close relationship with the Thomases raises questions about his access to other justices he campaigned for, now that they are issuing the rulings his donors desire, said Kyle Herrig, president of Accountable.US, a non-partisan progressive group that investigates corporate influence in politics."

Leonard Leo is THE mentor of perverting U.S. #RuleOfLaw.

#JusticeMatters #Independence #SeparationOfChurchAndState #SeparationOfPowers #ObstructionOfJustice #InvestigateLeonardLeo #PerversionOfJustice
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/01/dark-money-leonard-leo-judicial-activism-00084864

@SrRochardBunson Unmistakeable: "Conservative" entities, that aim at "crushing liberal dominance" in fact want to take away freedom, civil liberties & rights.

Because the opposite of "liberal" is "unfree" or "illiberal", as much as the illiberalism practiced in Putin's dicktatorship & any other anti-democratic system as oppressive as Putin's & Xi's.

Time to comprehensively mitigate Leonard Leo's corrupting & corrosive influence on United States judiciary!

#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #Freedom #YourVoiceMatters #RaiseYourVoice #InvestigateLeonardLeo #SeparationOfChurchAndState #SeparationOfPowers

@pivoinebleue Netanyahu's & Trump's (then-"presidential") goals are essentially the same: To abuse governmental power to evade justice, prosecution & indictment for being the crooks they are, utterly disregarding right & wrong.

To achieve this, they're even willing to sacrifice/corrupt the #SeparationOfPowers & the system of #ChecksAndBalances.
Both (& their respective stooges) are criminal embodiments of a deeply insane & unhealthy understanding of functioning democratic states, both are most unfit to hold public offices.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #CareerCriminals #CareerFraudsters #Corruption #Overthrow #Insurrection

@morgfair Not to forget: Catholic St. Leo(nard) Leo, daddy to at least 5 of 6 SCOTUS majority justices, "inherited" $1.6 billion to further radicalize & divide American society & democratic system of government.

#DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #IRS #LeonardLeosMissingTaxes #Insurrection #Overthrow #Subversion #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState #FederalistSociety #LockHimUp
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/leonard-leo-billion-donation-real-problem.html

@adar Netanyahu & Trump — two criminally corrupt soulmates desperate to evade accountability & justice, trying to overthrow the #RuleOfLaw.

#SeparationOfPowers #AccountabilityNow #Insurrection #Overthrow #Corruption #Embezzlement #Bribery #Democracy

@Shachihoko @TonyStark Now what needs to be investigated, how much Trump demanded for nominating 3 FedSoc justices & how much FedSoc offered & paid him for nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh & Coney Barrett.
And how many millions FedSoc paid ("GOP") senators for confirming the 3.

#RuleOfLaw #JudicialIndependence #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState #CleanSCOTUS

@yosasocial @TonyStark SCOTUS as currently composed is doubtlessly compromised & biased as for its majority, however not incurable.

#RuleOfLaw #ExpandSCOTUS #CleanSCOTUS #SeparationOfChurchAndState #SeparationOfPowers

@TonyStark Very likely all six SCOTUS majority justices are members of the Federalist Society, which (Opus Dei member) Leonard Leo has been the vice president of:
- John Roberts
- Clarence Thomas
- Samuel Alito
- Neil Gorsuch
- Brett Kavanaugh
- Amy Coney Barrett.

Justices put on #SCOTUS bench by Leonard Leo:
- John Roberts
- Samuel Alito
- Neil Gorsuch
- Brett Kavanaugh
- Amy Coney Barrett.

#RuleOfLaw #JusticeMatters #JudicialIndependence #SeparationOfChurchAndState #SeparationOfPowers #CleanSCOTUS #SCOTUSReform #Insurrection #Rebellion
https://churchandstate.org.uk/2022/05/leonard-leo-opus-dei-and-the-radical-catholic-takeover-of-the-supreme-court/

@kims @Dahlialith @heidilifeldman Thomas & many others [impeached] before him are proof, that the assumption, that lifetime appointments of judges & justices would guarantee judicial independence, may have been appropriate at the time of the Founders, when codes of honor used to be observed, but proves to be naively failing today, in times of broken #SeparationOfPowers & extreme partisanship.

#RuleOfLaw #JudicialTermLimits #JudicialIndependence #CourtReform #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState #BanFedSoc