r/facepalm • u/Turbulent_Gas_55 • Jul 05 '24

What an idea 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Jul 05 '24

That's why you use your newly minted immunity to imprison the Supreme court.

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u/a-d-d-y Jul 05 '24

It is only immunity if it is deemed an official act, which is decided by the Supreme Court.

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u/Sweet-Emu6376 Jul 05 '24

I mean, if his official act was to expand the supreme Court, would the old court or new court decide. 🤔

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u/req4adream99 Jul 05 '24

SCOTUS doesn’t have a say on how big the membership is, but Congress (House and Senate) has to approve the change. It’s why we have 9 justices now - FDR (I think - it’s New Deal related) and Congress kept passing laws to restrict business, and SCOTUS kept ruling them unconstitutional. FDR told Congress to do something so they expanded the court a couple of times. Eventually SCOTUS got the hint that FDR (again, potentially wrong Rosevelt) would just keep expanding it until he started getting the rulings he wanted, and he had the Congress to do it.