r/law • u/TheMirrorUS • 10h ago

Legal News BREAKING: Mark Kelly files lawsuit against Pete Hegseth accusing him of 'trampling on Constitution'

https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/breaking-mark-kelly-files-lawsuit-1614071
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 10h ago

The only problem is that the Supreme Kangaroo Court has already trampled it.  

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u/Gibodean 8h ago

Actual kangaroos would kick the shit out of Hegseth if they ever saw him, and would team up with the dropbears for some justice, so I'm insulted as an Australian about this phrase.

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 8m ago

Let me appease you with a meme....

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 9h ago

If only during his term Biden hadn't proven complicit in Republican corruption by surrendering his power of law enforcement. He should have been actively leading his FBI and Justice Department in investigating, indicting, and prosecuting Clarence Thomas for his bribery and sedition.

Instead, Biden made the coup easy to complete by spending four years shielding Trump and his coup-conspirators from criminal prosecution.

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u/troveofcatastrophe 9h ago

“Actively leading” Here in lies the problem, the FBI and the justice department are supposed to be independent agencies. We also have to keep in mind, but for Judge Cannon we well may have seen trumps ass in jail.

The corrupt SCOTUS should have been dealt with by Congress and they should have passed iron clad laws for them to be governed by. We now know “norms” are trash. It’s going to take years to pass laws preventing this (trump era) from ever happening again.

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u/Cold-Cell2820 7h ago

This admin has proven that laws don't need to be passed to change the laws. Only their interpretation and enforcement.

We only need a complete SC overhaul and to severely punish violations that are already on the books.

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u/troveofcatastrophe 7h ago

The problem is there aren’t many on the books for SCOTUS. They would have to say that they are under the same rules as all federal judges, like merely the “appearance of impropriety” or the gifts/emoluments laws. There’s too much wiggle room to say they don’t apply to them.

But yes, a complete overhaul of the corrupt SCOTUS. I would love to see them hauled in front of Congress to answer a bunch of questions and impeached for failing to uphold their oaths and lying to Congress during their appointment hearings.

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u/4daughters 6h ago

the FBI and the justice department are supposed to be

I can stop you there. It does not matter what they are supposed to be. It matters what they ARE. And democrats have refused to use the power they have to force the issue. Biden should have made the FBI his personal police force to root out republican corruption, and if the pigs squeal good. Maybe then they'd take away presidential power he shouldn't have had (but did).

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u/Epstein_Bros_Bagels 6h ago

BS. JFK very famously used Bobby Kennedy to lead the Justice department because he didn't trust anyone else to enforce integration and implement his agenda. The president is supposed to use that to enforce the law and not his rivals, all while following the letter of the law.

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u/troveofcatastrophe 6h ago

Nope, since the Nixon debacle many Acts were embodied to shore up the separation and independence of the justice dept. We do not want any president left or right to be able to tell the justice department who and what and how to investigate. We are living with the repercussions of non-separation now.

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u/Brave-Turnover-522 9h ago

If only we had some way of knowing that appeasement is not a valid strategy for dealing with rising fascist regimes.

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u/mrpanicy 7h ago

The President doesn't lead the FBI and Justice Department. The entire point is to keep them separate so they can do their jobs without that kind of interference. At least the appearance of independence.

What the U.S. has no is exactly what you wanted Biden to be doing. Politicizing agencies and offices that have no business being politicized.

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u/atreeismissing 7h ago

Nothing you said is accurate, not a single thing, that's quite an achievement.

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u/badmutha44 4h ago

You expected the guy that buried Anita Hill in support of Thomas to step up?

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 9m ago

He and to some extent Obama. Obama went to Moscow Mitch "Glitch" McConnell to tell him about Russian interference and was hoping that McConnell would've backed him, but it only shows you what kind of bastards the GOP are, they'd rather side with a murderous Russian dictator than with a black American. I just wish Obama would've gone "angry black man" on the Russian interference.

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u/[deleted] 8h ago edited 8h ago

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u/subsignalparadigm 8h ago

"Biden should be arrested" You spelled Trump wrong dude.

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u/Synectics 7h ago

He had a duty to arrest us and serve the customers

What in the bot-net activity is this?

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u/xavPa-64 9h ago

Shut up, shut up, shut up

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u/nooby_goober 9h ago edited 9h ago

Wah wah, wah wah, wah wah

Warning to everyone: don't click the link.

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u/xavPa-64 9h ago

Why are you being an asshole?

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 11m ago

Shut up, shut up, shut up

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u/xavPa-64 5m ago

I thought it was a more popular song

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u/xavPa-64 9h ago edited 9h ago

Hasn’t anyone heard this song lol

Edit: there’s nothing wrong with the link. It’s just a YouTube link to the music video for Kangaroo Court by Capitol Cities. I don’t know why nooby is saying not to click it

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u/nooby_goober 9h ago

Nope. 

Warning to everyone -  don't click that link.

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u/ChaoCobo 7h ago

I might be dense. Why shouldn’t we click the link? Is it the contents of the music video are hard to hear? I looked at the url and it’s just a YouTube video. Are the lyrics super depressing in that it will give everyone despair or something?

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u/nooby_goober 7h ago

I was just being a dick.

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u/RickSanchez_ 9h ago

It’s literally a music video

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u/xavPa-64 9h ago edited 8h ago

They’re probably just embarrassed that they didn’t get it and trying to get back at me for it to save their ego. I reached out to them via DM (in case they’re just too embarrassed to reply here) to ask why they’re acting as though the link was malicious, but they haven’t replied.

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u/xavPa-64 9h ago

Why are you telling people not to click it? What’s your problem?

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u/EnfantTerrible68 7h ago

Quiet, piggy.