Normally I just ignore or admonish articles about stupid nonstarter ideas like this, but this isn't some fringe lone congressman: it's the Speaker of the House. This shit is serious.
As far as I understand. US federal courts exist under Article Three of the United States Constitution. It requires only that the US has a Supreme Court, and it allows Congress to also create other ("inferior") federal courts. I take it Congress can also remove these courts, so at least the Speaker isn't proposing to violate the Constitution.
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
Normally I just ignore or admonish articles about stupid nonstarter ideas like this, but this isn't some fringe lone congressman: it's the Speaker of the House. This shit is serious.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
cooked I tell ya
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y
Republicans are no longer conservative. They are the exact opposite: Radical.
Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Republicans/MAGA cannot achieve their goals democratically and they aren't going to change their goals, they are going to abandon democracy
xzot746@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
Law, law, we don't need no stinken law..
Wake up America it's happening!
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Putin told him to
haakon@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 1y
As far as I understand. US federal courts exist under Article Three of the United States Constitution. It requires only that the US has a Supreme Court, and it allows Congress to also create other ("inferior") federal courts. I take it Congress can also remove these courts, so at least the Speaker isn't proposing to violate the Constitution.
Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
LOL, that is impossible without completely re-writing the Constitution and he absolutely knows it.