• ScrollinMyDayAway@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    If only we could vote out a Supreme Court member. But ironically those that sit on the highest court in the country are held accountable by nobody, and serve for life.

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      They are held accountable by Congress. But that assumes that Congress isn’t complicit.

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      11 months ago

      That was intentional in the design of the supreme court. It was made to be the least democratic branch of government because it was made to hold the current majority to the standards of the past. Which is what a constitution is.