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Rhiannon12866

(206,247 posts)
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 01:50 AM Jun 2020

Trump Proposes Overruling Supreme Court by Creating Supremer Court

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—One day after it issued decisions on L.G.B.T.Q. rights and the Second Amendment that provoked his ire, Donald J. Trump said that he would overrule the Supreme Court by creating a “Supremer Court.”

“Right now, if the Supreme Court makes a bad decision, quite frankly, you’re screwed,” he said. “The Supremer Court fixes that.”

Trump said that his Supremer Court would be a “beautiful, perfect court” that would make the Supreme Court “look like exactly what it is—a sad bunch of losers.”

Trump said that the Supremer Court would be housed in a “giant, gleaming building” overlooking the Supreme Court, enabling the Supremer Court Justices to “look down at those pathetic little Supreme Court jerks and laugh.”

As for choosing Justices for the Supremer Court, Trump said that there were no Supreme Court Justices worth promoting, “except maybe Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas.”

“Judge Roberts is the beauty who gave us Obamacare, and Gorsuch is a total snake,” Trump said. “At least with Kavanaugh and Thomas you’ve got two terrific people.”


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-proposes-overruling-supreme-court-by-creating-supremer-court



Photograph by Chip Somodevilla / Getty

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Trump Proposes Overruling Supreme Court by Creating Supremer Court (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jun 2020 OP
Space Court! TeamPooka Jun 2020 #1
damn it Borowitz Report you win again! 0rganism Jun 2020 #2
It sure does! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2020 #3
Only thing is, it wouldn't surprise me if donald was actually calimary Jun 2020 #4
I agree, I'd put nothing past him. Rhiannon12866 Jun 2020 #6
the sad part is we don't accually know if he said it or not scarytomcat Jun 2020 #7
Ok, that got a chuckle... Wounded Bear Jun 2020 #5
I love good satire Gothmog Jun 2020 #8

0rganism

(23,975 posts)
2. damn it Borowitz Report you win again!
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 04:25 AM
Jun 2020

every day it becomes harder to tell fact from fiction, parody from reality.

Rhiannon12866

(206,247 posts)
3. It sure does!
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:08 AM
Jun 2020

The way things are going, today's Borowitz article could easily be tomorrow's headlines!

calimary

(81,527 posts)
4. Only thing is, it wouldn't surprise me if donald was actually
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:12 AM
Jun 2020

trying to come up with some Supreme Court work-around - maybe along these very lines.

I wouldn’t put it past him.

Rhiannon12866

(206,247 posts)
6. I agree, I'd put nothing past him.
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:17 AM
Jun 2020

And since he hasn't a clue about how government works - like that there are 3 coequal branches - he's probably already explored the options of "firing" the justices he doesn't like!

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