• RealFknNito@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You know we fucked up when in order to enact oversight on a branch of government we need to ask for their consent first.

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      1 year ago

      This is just an aside, but I love how oversight means making sure mistakes/abuses don’t happen too much but also means mistake 😄

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      1 year ago

      Are you…talking about the proposed term limits? Because that’s purely legislative, there’s no need to ask permission from the justices.

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        It’d have to pass constitutional muster. Usually, it’s hard for one branch of government to impose restrictions on another branch of government without a constitutional amendment. It’d end up in front of the Supreme Court to decide if they would accept that restriction or not.

        One of the reasons increasing the size of the Supreme Court comes up as a solution is because Congress is explicitly allowed to just do that.