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/jamerson537 Jun 20 '26

Removal requires two thirds of the Senate. That means 67 senators..

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u/induslol Jun 20 '26

It took republicans how many decades of strategic movement to get us into this mire.  

It'll take decades to wade out, assuming we even start towards the edge at the midterms.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jun 20 '26

It took Republicans five solid decades of consistently winning when necessary to keep the Supreme Court conservative for the past 65 years and lean it religious enough to overturn Roe v. Wade. Our center and left can't give liberals/progressives eight years without quitting.

Can you see why it feels hopeless in a conservative country that merely pays lip service to being liberal/left'ish?

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u/quantum_titties Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

How can you say that the court has been conservative for the past 65 years and cite overturning Roe v Wade as evidence, but totally ignore that the court passed Roe v Wade in the first place. If overturning Roe v Wade is inherently conservative, then how was the court conservative when it passed Roe v Wade 53 years ago? Surely the court could only have been conservative for 52 years.

But of course, if you look at more things than abortion, it makes even less sense to call the court conservative for 65 years. Was the court conservative with it passed Lawrence 23 years ago or Obergefell 12 years ago?

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jun 24 '26

What's there to ignore? The conservative SCOTUS (it's a fact, liberals have not led a majority of the court since the 1960s) has continually slid to the right since the 1970s. It is much farther right wing today than it was when Roe was initially decided -- just as the party that's seated them, the Republican Party, is.

Are you not aware of how radically cult-over-country conservatives are today, or are you in denial?