Trump: We Should Imprison People For Criticizing Supreme Court
By: John Amato (Crooks and Liars)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
During his rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania on Monday, Trump defended the Supreme Court from verbal criticisms and claimed people should be put in prison for doing so.
Before demented Don talked about arresting people criticizing the Supreme Court, he claimed Vice President Harris wants to pack the Supreme Court with up to 25 justices if elected.
TRUMP: And she wants to pack the Supreme Court, you know that. Instead of nine justices like we have now, Kamala wants to bring it up very substantially. Now, this is a number I heard two days ago, potentially to 25 justices so she can rig the system.
Meaning, not she, the whole party can rig the system, the party of communists. She wants to bring it up to 25. That's the first time I heard that number, but I heard it very loud and clear. She might as well have Congress.
There is no law saying we can only have nine justices on the high court. McConnell and Trump's actions have destroyed the integrity of the court and turned it into a kangaroo institution of the MAGA cult.
TRUMP: No, they were very brave, the Supreme Court, very brave. And they take a lot of hits because of it.
It should be illegal what happens.
You know, you have these guys like playing the ref, like the great Bobby Knight.
These people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges and our justices, trying to get them to sway their vote, sway their decision.
I won't bother discussing his violation of the First Amendment because our readers understand it, but if you look at Trump's track record of attacking and vilifying judges and their family members, if we use his pronouncement, he should be in prison for life.
Using Trump's logic, the entire Republican Party should be in prison for almost 60 years of vile attacks on the Supreme Court for every decision they hated.
Trump is losing his marbles and fast.
Trump again says six justices--here, "six brilliant justices"-- overturned Roe v. Wade. Without opining on their luminance, it was five. https://t.co/ZDtfK1p3dD
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) September 24, 2024
He sure wants to throw a lot of people in jail. He must want company.
It gets lonely in that cold, dark cell
I hear it is better if you can pick the person showering next to you...
If it actually would be the case that one could be jailed for being critical of the SCotUS, that would be yet another reason why I'll never step foot in the USA again. Okay, everyone, go ahead and say "who cares?" - you're all forgiven in advance. LOL
Yep.
Of course, if Harris wins and packs the Court, the first amendment may well "evolve" that way.
I would expect her to do it if she can. Destroying institutions and norms is pretty much the Biden/Harris brand.
You have more confidence in her handlers than I do.
Walz was licking the boots of Soros today. I wonder what his boss told him.
Is that the image of the President of "The Greatest Nation on Earth" you want to be laughed at by the rest of the world?
some things cannot be denied
LOL
Forgive me Tex, at my advanced old age I do sometimes forget things. My feelings are no different from yours, even if I were qualified to vote in an American election, I wouldn't vote for any of them either.
I'm pretty sure Trump himself had some choice words for them when the scotus rejected his election suits back in 2020.
I went to school in Indiana, PA. Lived about 20 miles from there during my growing up years.
I hope he didn;t have a huge crowd, but Indiana is maga-land
There is a travelling core of these people, mostly retirees, who travel from rally to rally.
Sad.
Well, I want to travel when I retire...but I want to go to New England and Yellowstone
There is also a micro-economy of vendors selling the standards: Food, Trump themed paraphernalia...
I saw a TV interview where the vendors figured out pretty quickly that the same people were coming repeatedly so they started modifying the t shirts and visors to indicate the place and date of the rally.
Cha ching, he said, right back up to $10,000 in sales for one and a half days, usually netting $6500.00, eclipsing his 9 to 5 job earnings.
Nah, that's when the weirdos start to really buy all of their tactical gear...
After months, if not years, of Trump delivering a continuous barrage of verbal abuse against almost every judge involved in his cases, he now wants to jail people who dare to criticize judges, in particular his hand-picked sycophants on the Supreme Court.
It's enough to make your head spin.
Not only is it rank hypocrisy, it's clear proof that Trump is an enemy of the 1st Amendment.
A dictator on Day One? You bet!
Who is insane enough to support him?
here is no law saying we can only have nine justices on the high court
Yes. There is.
Connell and Trump's actions have destroyed the integrity of the court and turned it into a kangaroo institution of the MAGA cult.
Example 1,000 of why progressive extremists are no different than their caricature of Trump. The Court rules against Trump, "MAGA" and conservatives all the time. But since the far left doesn't win every single case they want, no matter how lacking in merit their argument is, they scream the Court has no integrity and attack it's independence non stop..
A vote for Harris is a vote for destroying the independence of the Court and making it nothing but a partisan tool that serves whoever controls the Presidency and 50 Senate Votes. It means the end of the Constitution.
Fiction:
Fact:
According to the constitution, congress has the responsibility of setting the number of Justices on the supreme court. We've had as few as 6 but since 1869 we've had 9 but that is not a number set in stone.
Nonsense. The complaint about the conservative Justices comes from the fact that EVERY fucking one of them said Roe was "settled law" during their confirmations, and then as soon as the religious conservatives had the majority they pushed forward with any of the Christian conservative challenges to Roe and, as we all know, overturned that "settled law" after injecting their worthless religious beliefs into the law of the land contrary to the constitutions establishment clause. That's what rational Americans with more than half a brain take issue with in regards to the Christian conservatives on the court.
Do you know what a law is?
omplaint about the conservative Justices comes from the fact that EVERY fucking one of them said Roe was "settled law
Lol. Justices don't commit to voting on an issue likely to come before them during confirmation. That would actually be an ethical violation. All they did is recognize that it was precedent, which it was.
The author obviously misspoke. There is no requirement in the U.S. Constitution that there can only be nine justices on the Supreme Court.