You’re wrong Alito, Congress can definitely make rules and laws to regulate you. They have the explicit authority to do that.
“The court can be trusted to self-regulate”
That’s bullshit. With your unethical bribes being accepted and the bullshit rulings you’ve been making have proven you’re an incompetent corrupt court.
Although the Constitution establishes the Supreme Court, it permits Congress to decide how to organize it. Congress first exercised this power in the Judiciary Act of 1789. This Act created a Supreme Court with six justices.
It would be evil and unethical, yes, but not unconstitutional. They would still be justices right up until their execution, so it’s still a lifetime appointment.
You’re wrong Alito, Congress can definitely make rules and laws to regulate you. They have the explicit authority to do that.
“The court can be trusted to self-regulate”
That’s bullshit. With your unethical bribes being accepted and the bullshit rulings you’ve been making have proven you’re an incompetent corrupt court.
It’s right on the courts’ info page
https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/about
That had to do with size of the court.
Constitution says it’s a lifetime appointment, though.
Can have all the rules you want, which the justices are free to ignore because the Constitution says it’s a lifetime seat.
You just have to be creative. Pass a law saying holding a Supreme Court seat for more than 20 years is a capital crime.
That would be unconstitutional and ruled that way, too. The law cannot take away a thing guaranteed by the Constitution (the lifetime appointment).
There would need to be an impeachment or amendment. Or court-packing.
It would be evil and unethical, yes, but not unconstitutional. They would still be justices right up until their execution, so it’s still a lifetime appointment.
It could still run up against tue 8th Amendment, more specifically the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
Edit to add: being convicted of a capital crime does not guarantee a death sentence. Anything less than death still bumps into a Constitutional issue.
Coming and going, there’s a likely Constituional challenge. An amendment would almost be easier.
death penalty isn’t cruel or unusual. scotus said so themselves. they even said a punishment could be cruel as long as it isn’t unusual.
My other comment addresses this.