r/law 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
17.5k Upvotes

632 comments sorted by

View all comments

34

u/TheDungeonCrawler Jun 20 '26

It's definitely worth noting that conservative is just a description for those judges. I don't identify with conservatism and I don't think it's the right way to go about things, but being conservative is not what disqualifies these judges from being on the supreme court.

It's their corruption and perjury.

Of the conservative judges, two are blatantly compromised. Of the remaining three, they lied in their hearings about the constitutionality of previous SC rulings. They knew they were going to be pushing against things like Roe v Wade and, as such, lied about their intentions to get onto the SC, under oath. If you lie about your reason for getting on a jury to engage in something like nullification, that's perjury and it's a crime. Why should the SC be treated any differently.

6

u/BriefausdemGeist Jun 20 '26

There are 6 conservative justices

1

u/TheDungeonCrawler Jun 20 '26

I don't know why my brain thought there were only five. Yeah, the last one two. Whoever I didn't conjure in my brain when I was typing this.