Posted on 06/29/2022 9:23:08 AM PDT by janetjanet998
Well, it was just 14 kilograms. Street value of the national
debt... /s (well close)
Why not? Just an innocent victimless crime.
No effect on the direction of the court. Breyer is a reliable slavish vote for whatever statist leftoid side the Marxists take on every decision.
Affirmative Action Jackson will be the same.
Who cares? When are they going to release their last 3 rulings?
I want to see them slap Biden’s border policy.
There’s a “non-violent” crime for you.
30 pounds--personal use??
Breyer announced his intention to retire at the end of the session, assuming that his replacement had been nominated and confirmed. Implying that if a successor was not appointed and confirmed, he was not going to step down at the end of the session.
One retirement announcement was definite, and one was contingent.
If the President can nominate, and the Senate confirm, a successor prior to there being a vacancy, then what would stop the President from nominating, and the Senate confirming, successors to all of the Justices?
There would have to be an indication of intention to retire. It wouldn’t fly otherwise, especially as the Constitution is silent on the issue.
She’ll look like Oprah in a few years,
The Supreme Court gets slightly dumber on 6/30/22.
Wouldn't fly with whom, exactly? The public? Because, if as you say the Constitution and federal law is silent on the issue, then a willing Senate and President could certainly do it. They could have Supreme Court Justice and lower court federal judge nominees stacked up like cordwood.
Some strange dude with a Farrah Fawcett wig and nasty dressing habits ahead.
Can you imagine all of the reasons why nobody would do this - all of the ways it might backfire - and the incredible pushback trying it would get?
If you want to speculate on terrible possibilities, you’d do better to be concerned about court packing. How about Biden nominating 12 new justices?
What about Colon Karernick he isn’t employed.
“14 kilograms of cocaine”
I’m sure that’s just for Uncle Tommy’s personal use.
/sarc
I’m not sure there has ever been a less important justice on the Supreme Court.
Well, if more people associate the name with ice cream and not a Supreme Court Justice, I'd say you're right.
I found the statute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/371
(a) Any justice or judge of the United States appointed to hold office during good behavior may retire from the office after attaining the age and meeting the service requirements, whether continuous or otherwise, of subsection (c) and shall, during the remainder of his lifetime, receive an annuity equal to the salary he was receiving at the time he retired....
(d) The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a successor to a justice or judge who retires under this section.
The statute says "the President shall appoint ... a successor ... who retires ..." It doesn't say "the President shall appoint ... a successor ... who intends to retire ..."
I think the confirmation by the Senate of Ketanji Brown Jackson was premature according to the statutes, but it is what it is, I suppose.
>>If Breyer had not resigned (and say died under the next President) would the confirmation still be valid?<<
A case could be made that, after the mid-terms, if the Senate changed hands, that the new Senate could rescind the confirmation. This may be the reason for the timing. The Supreme court just finished their 2021-22 term.
...to be replaced by Justice Jumanji Mustafa X Brown-Jackson.
We can all participate in this historical event by flushing our toilets at the exact hour. Twice.
A tranny, eh?
Manual or automatic?
On the tree or on the floor?
[Gosh. That might be TMI, huh.]
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