SCOTUS Justice Elena Kagan calls for ethics enforcement mechanism

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Anyone else get a minor heart attack reading those first four words for a post at the very top of your feed?
- Felt the deep pit in my stomach seeing “Elena Kagan.” Then read the rest and went back to being sleepy eyed.
  
  At least, if it were to happen, Dems still have the Senate and Presidency this time around.
  
  Never trust Manchin to do the right thing
  
  Felt the deep pit in my stomach
  
  It's depressing how I went from not understanding this expression, to feeling it nearly every time I checked the headlines starting in November of 2016.
- Exactly! Scared the bejesus out of me.
- "Supreme Court of the"?
  
  Scotus is one word. I believe it's a disease of some sort
I feel like any such reform will be challenged and go to them, SCOTUS, for approval. Anyone wanna wager how that’ll turn out!?
- I'll take the layup: 6-3 against
- I’m not sure it can. It would be Congress and the president. The Supreme Court wouldn’t be able to overrule, that’s the whole point of the separate branches split the way they are
  
  How did they overturn the other laws then?
This is coming from one of the conservative justices, right? Right?

Lol of course it isn't. Surprise, surprise.

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