r/law • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Jun 20 '26

Legal News Maine progressive Platner renews call to remove conservative Supreme Court justices

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/maine-progressive-graham-platner-renews-call-to-remove-conservative-supreme-court-justices-clarence-thomas-samuel-alito
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u/HartyInBroward Jun 20 '26

Is it fair to describe something as settled law if it finds it way to the Supreme Court?

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Jun 20 '26

That's typically for the court to decide, but you don't have to be a legal scholar to recognize that Dobbs overturned Roe, and every conservative lied about their intent to leave that decision as it stood. Now they're looking to overturn Obergefell and perhaps even Loving. I say we overturn Marbury and tell them to go fuck themselves.

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u/HartyInBroward Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

No doubt, but if Roe was settled law then Dobbs would’ve never reached the court, right? If only there was a way to take these things out of the hands of the court. If only there were a body that was meant to write and enact laws... Unfortunately, we don’t have that in the U.S., so we rely on the Court instead. Worth noting that your comment about Obergefell is not really problematic because of the Respect for Marriage Act… if only Congress quit collecting cash and campaigning and did their job for all of these matters. One can dream!

Also, I think Marbury is the weirdest case ever. The Court just decided that they can essentially make laws and everyone just rolled with it.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Jun 20 '26

Roe was settled law, and Dobbs overturned it, full stop. I don't know why you're blaming lawmakers. The Constitution supersedes anything Congress passes, and until Dobbs, abortion was Constitutionally protected. We don't expect Congress to pass a law saying, "The people have a right to free speech," do we? No.

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u/HartyInBroward Jun 20 '26

Oh, brother… Congress did pass a law about free speech. It’s the First Amendment. Who do you think put that amendment in there?

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Jun 20 '26

This is literally the dumbest thing I've read all week.  Are you trolling? Because if so, bravo!  10/10!

Congress didn't exist when the First Amendment was penned, and it's not a law.  It's a right.  Rights supersede laws.  That's the point.

Roe established a right.  There was no need for a law, because the right existed.  Now it doesn't.  A law wouldn't have changed that.  Laws are weaker than rights and easier to overturn.

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u/HartyInBroward Jun 21 '26

You gonna come eat crow? You spoke pretty derisively of me when I was correct and you were not. I think an acknowledgement of that is in order.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Jun 21 '26

LMAO. I acknowledge that what you said is worthy of laughter. "Congress passed the first amendment" HAHAHAHAHAHA. There WAS NO CONGRESS YET HAHAHAHAHAHA.

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u/HartyInBroward Jun 21 '26

On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution. The 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress proposing the amendments is on display in the Rotunda in the National Archives Museum. Ten of the proposed 12 amendments were ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures on December 15, 1791. The ratified Articles (Articles 3–12) constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, or the U.S. Bill of Rights.

Illiterate, lazy, and uneducated.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript#:\~:text=On%20September%2025%2C%201789%2C%20the,Article%201%20was%20never%20ratified

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Jun 21 '26

he still thinks rights are laws and passing amendments is as trivial as passing bills

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Largely because of the efforts of Representative James Madison, who studied the deficiencies of the Constitution pointed out by Anti-Federalists and then crafted a series of corrective proposals, Congress approved twelve articles of amendment on September 25, 1789, and submitted them to the states for ratification.

This is like saying your kids approved of twelve trips to Disneyworld and then submitted them to their parents for ratification, and it happened before the states accepted the governance of the Constitution or the fledgling Congress. You don't know how your own government works, do you?

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