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Samuel Alito says he is considering retirement & could hand Trump another nomination
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2026
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I’m sympathetic to the idea that we don’t need a “Supreme Court” at all. We have a representative legislature, we have federal judges. All these fucking assholes do is distort the constitution to serve an aristocracy that is not unlike the aristocracy we fought a revolution to overthrow. They’re goddamn traitors.
It's pretty trivial to cut the Supreme Court out of the loop. All you have to do is write into the language of a law that ruling on this law is outside the jurisdiction of SCOTUS. SCOTUS has original jurisdiction on a few issues, like issues involving disputes between states. But most of what it rules on are it's jurisdiction simply because Congress hasn't assigned the issue to any other court.
It’s almost as if there’s some coordination going on, avoiding the issue altogether!
No?? The constitution very clearly says that it's the highest court of the land.
If you really believe that, then you have a child's understanding of the Supreme Court. It is anything but as simple as you seem to believe.
SCOTUS has original jurisdiction over a few narrow kinds of cases. These are powers Congress can't amend or change. Disputes between the states and disputes involving ambassadors are examples of these. But there's also appellate jurisdiction - where a court has a right to appeal decisions made by other courts. This authority isn't absolute. The Constitution states:
Congress can just flat out say, "SCOTUS isn't allowed to rule on this topic," and it can't. This has been done multiple times in US history.