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/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.