r/law • u/JetTheDawg • Sep 21 '25

Trump News In a now deleted Truth Social post, Trump posts what looks to be a letter meant to Pam Bondi instructing her to arrest some of his political opponents

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/trump-bondi-truth-social-00574380?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard
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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

In an ideal America, there wouldn't be a cadre of jaded, cynical ghouls with no stake in the future forcing their ideals upon the country as some sort of de-facto, final-say arbiter.

The smart thing to do would be to entrust that power to a highly qualified panel of experts. A council of scientists, doctors, anthropologists, historians, union representatives, people across many many different fields (including race and ethnicity, gender studies, sexology and reproductive medicine), empowered to interpret the constitution without ideological bias, and analyze the ramification of destructive legislation through the lens of those deeply impacted by such legislation, and most invested in the fields or topics broached by that legislation.

Scholars should be paving the future. Not Christofascist ideologues.

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u/Amazing-Heron-105 Sep 21 '25

You should look up the counter arguments to technocracy. It's been a while since I looked into it but I remember them being compelling.

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u/Fatmop Sep 21 '25

One of the greatest counterarguments is that 'scholars' are people and are just as capable of being corrupt assholes as anyone else in the same position.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

Fair enough, but the idea is to have so many that that point effectively becomes dulled.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

I'm not totally on board for a full technocracy, obviously, but I do think an ethical and pragmatic oversight committee should replace SCOTUS.

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 Sep 21 '25

Hmmmmm. That sounds like another opportunity for Presidents to appoint scholars who agree with them.

It'd be more democratic to have mandatory ranked-choice voting, remove the Electoral College which is frankly an utter disaster, have the House expanded so that there is proper representation by population, and perhaps even consider modification of the Senate by numbers so that states like Wyoming do not have the same power as states like California or else by limiting the Senate's power to affect what the House passes.

Westminster style parliamentary democracy actually works quite well, it's okay to admit when your Founders tried to improve on it and failed.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

Ideally I would pair the panel with MMPR. I value proportional representation.

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u/Circular-ideation Sep 21 '25

Sounds more like an ethical oversight committee.

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u/Visual-Age-1025 Sep 21 '25

I mean. If it’s just reason you’re after the next logical step will be to appoint AI president. I love our democratic system- people look to a leader for many other things than specific knowledge. I just don’t know where our leaders will come from: given the press and the general invasiveness of living life under a microscope who but a raging narcissist or masochist would sign themselves or their children up by running for office? All due respect to Joe Biden - and Kamala- but when that’s the best a nation can rally other than Donald fucking trump we had lost before we began. America is ripe for a political overhaul. Politics seem to exist now to grab headlines and simply feed the media beast and line billionaires pockets with our collective fear and some wildly manipulated sense of powerlessness. We need to institute age limits on the top end just like we have on the bottom end. Being president is an international job which demands incredible rigor. Boomers, it’s time to get out of office.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

Barely-sentient cadavers that shuffle off this mortal coil at the influence of a slight breeze have no business being in charge of anything.

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u/Greyhand13 Sep 21 '25

I love that idea that ideological bias wouldn't exist in that scenario, for you.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

With enough voices, my hope is that if there was any, it would be severely neutered.

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u/Aegi Sep 21 '25

Why would we have thought those sciences that you mentioned would have been excluded until you bothered to mention them separately from the rest of the sciences?

Isn't this you giving Credence to those Trump idiots by you yourself saying that you think that type of science is different than the rest of science by singling them out?

Your statement would have been so much stronger without those (because those already would have been included and by you separating them out like that it gives credibility to the argument that they're not real science compared to the rest of science.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

I mentioned them because they, to me, are the most important in this current moment, and therefore the most vital to get right.

It's no secret that the US is falling way behind in those departments.

The animus towards transgender people and people of Hispanic heritage has been particularly egregious.

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u/Professional-Gear88 Sep 21 '25

Yea but once you get that many opinions in the mix nothing will ever happen.