The "Trump SCOTUS" you say. It is amazing that people think that way, it really is. Trump is not the president, yet he seems to control at least enough of the Republican house that he is calling the shots, like the immigration bill. Now you claim Trump controls the SCOTUS, guess he had his appointees sign some kind of agreement. I mean shit, now all we have to do is get rid of Biden and elect Trump.
In order to lay a due foundation for that separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government, which to a certain extent, is admitted on all hands to be essential to the preservation of liberty, it is evident that each department should have a will of its own; and consequently should be so constituted, that the members of each should have as little agency as possible in the appointment of the members of the others.
That is James Madison, Federalist 51. Note,
distinct exercise of the different powers of government, which to a certain extent, is admitted on all hands to be essential to the preservation of liberty,
The separation of powers has been the cornerstone of the Constitution. It has been the air that this nation breathes and it, and it alone, as allowed our Republic to last this long. Totalitarian governments, they usually don't last long, because they are not nimble, they can't react to unexpected catastrophes or change. They are like a big ass ocean liner steaming ahead, changing direction is a major undertaking, if even possible. But a functioning democracy, with a distinct separation of powers, well that is like a Sea Doo, zipping and turning at a moments notice. But back to Madison
each department should have a will of its own;
These MAGA Republican legislators, damn dollar to a flippin doughnut they don't even know what the Federalist papers are, let alone bothered to read any of them, most certainly not 51. It is their duty, THEIR FLIPPIN DUTY, to be independent. At best, they are cowards, each and everyone. I mean it is really pretty damn sad when Liz Cheney has bigger balls than they do. But at worse, they are traitors, REAL TRAITORS, and should be dragged before a judge, tried, and executed.
And the SCOTUS, maybe you are right. Maybe they are "bought and bossed" by none other than Trump himself. They are quickly coming to a Jesus moment. The 14th amendment case, the immunity claim, the correct decision is really not that difficult to ascertain. And those legislators are just pussies, after all, they have to be re-elected. Which should never have been allowed, ask George Mason. But that is another thread and another time. And besides, you people don't even know who George Mason was.
But damn, a SCOTUS judge has a lifetime appointment. I mean that is the last safeguard left, the founders were absolutely geniuses. They can rule against Trump and there is not a damn thing he, or the public, can do about it. But, if they rule in his favor, then the gig is up. Shut the book on the American Republic. It is over.
When we contemplate the fall of empires & the extinction of the nations of the ancient world, we see but little more to excite our regret than the mouldering ruins of pompous palaces, magnificent monuments, lofty pyramids, and walls and towers of the most costly workmanship: But when the empire of America shall fall, the subject for contemplative sorrow will be infinitely greater than crumbling brass or marble can inspire. It will not then be said, here stood a temple of vast antiquity, here rose a babel of invisible height, or there a pa∣lace of sumptuous extravagance; but here ah painful thought! the noblest work of human wisdom, the grandest scene of human glory, the fair cause of freedom rose and fell.
That is Thomas Paine, in a letter to George Washington, a scathing letter. But you can't blame the dude, he was sitting in a French jail cell. And yeah, maybe Trump will win the presidential election and go ahead and put in the final nail in the coffin of what once was "the grandest scene of human glory". What won't go unnoticed, the wealthiest president in American History was Donald Trump. Second, George Washington. The beginning and the ending.
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