raise the number to 11 judges...FDR already tried that after his NRA plane failed.
bnump
Note how all the little Federal judge-presidents have been over-ruling the ACTUAL President.
If Felonia von Pantsuit had won, this would be going on under the radar, but now that Trump is in power, they've had to show their hand.
The plan was to have 6 black-robed klowns on the Supreme Court telling us all when to breathe in, and when to breathe out.
Only if you count the millions of illegal alien votes in California and New York.
FDR tried it. Even he, elected 4 times, could not get the people to go for it.
It guaranteed to piss off voters so please DO run on this nonsense Dems.
Voters understand the system of checks and balances works and needs no radical revision.
In the second paragraph, the author states that is a “fact’ that in any sane political system conservatives would
be of a Vanishing minority.
Really, what better indication could there be of the author’s sheer self-delusion? First of all, calling such a thought a fact is completely idiotic. It is an opinion. It happens to be quite a goofball opinion. No sane system of argumentation would call such an opinion a fact. This alone disqualifies the author from any sort of consideration.
raise the number to 11 judges...Stuck on stupid...
Classic proglib thought process.
Not winning? Cheat.
To hell with what the American Citizens voted for...
There is a screaming need to reopen the mental institutions and eliminate the Department of "education."
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Only Thomas and Alito would be considered conservative on the SC. The jury wil be out for a while on Gorsuch.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
Democrats no longer support freedom, democracy or the law. They will do anything to win and violently oppress any opposing view if they get the chance.
“The Democratic candidate STOLE a popular vote majority in the last six of seven presidential elections” due to illegal aliens voting and massive voter fraud during the early voting and election day voting.
I actually thought Obama and his Demon Rat majority was going to do this as a matter of course in 2009-2010.
I am glad they neglected to do so....
For anyone interested, there is a great article at TownHall.com that bears the absolute truth of the matter, and shows the histrionics of the Left to be an example of the hate inspired, unconstitutional scum they really are with yet another self-inflicted wound: "Senate Dems: We're Horrified the GOP is Exploiting Our Power Grab on Judicial Confirmations" and there was a good thread started by Kaslin at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3654535/posts
I loved this excerpt:
The American people decided not to give Democrats the House or to restore the filibuster-proof majority they had in the Senate back in 2009, and our Democrat colleagues don’t like that one bit. So they’re trying to change the rules of the game to get their way...In short, unlike the first two years of the Obama Administration, there’s now a legislative check on the President. And the Administration doesn’t much like checks and balances...And get this: [Democrats] think they can change the rules of the Senate in a way that benefits only them. They want to do it in such a way that President Obama’s agenda gets enacted, but that a future Republican president couldn’t get his or her picks for the Supreme Court confirmed by a Republican Senate using the same precedent our Democrat friends want to set. So they want to have it both ways. But this sort of gerrymandered vision of the nuclear option is really just wishful thinking.
As the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee put it yesterday: ‘If [the Majority Leader] changes the rules for some judicial nominees, he is effectively changing them for all judicial nominees, including the Supreme Court.’ Look: I realize this sort of wishful thinking might appeal to the uninitiated newcomers in the Democratic Conference who’ve served exactly zero days in the minority. But others in their conference should know better...if they want to play games and set yet another precedent that they will no doubt come to regret, well, that’s a choice only they can make.
He added, "you’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.” That warning fell on deaf ears, and Democrats marched forward with their power grab. President Obama, who'd enjoyed a 99 percent confirmation rate on his judicial picks prior to a partisan fight breaking out over his designs to pack the DC Circuit Court, prevailed. A flurry of post-nuclear confirmations allowed Obama to dramatically tilt the federal judiciary to the left, a development that was enthusiastically welcomed by liberals. But as McConnell presciently foresaw, the proverbial shoe is now on the other foot, and the American Left is looking on in horror as President Trump and Mitch McConnell use the Democrat-implemented new rules to confirm an avalanche of young conservative jurists..."
The Left must be taught a lesson, as hard as it is to get it through their thick skulls: If you want to play your political crap games, man up and be prepared to feel the pain when your oh-so-clever political hardball tactics boomerang around and nail you in the nuts. Perhaps next time, you might heed the advice of someone who understands that making laws that benefit you when you are in power may (and will) be used against you when you are NOT in power.
So we should push and abuse this rule THEY created to get as many conservatives in the judiciary as we can...and we can do it LEGALLY because THEY changed the rules.
And we should do the same with other abuses. They want to go after Dinesh D'Souza? Rosie O'Donnell should be prosecuted and convicted to the same extent for the same crime.
Want to go after Michael Flynn with the Logan Act? Let's go full tilt on John Kerry. Handcuff him when he gets off the plane, raid his mansion and search it, interview him until we catch him in a lie, and prosecute him for it.
If we don't start throwing it right back in their faces, they will continue to do it. If we use their "rules" against THEM, they may think twice, though that is doubtful.
You filthy pond scum. Drink a long draught of the polluted political waters you created. Do us all (and the Republic) a favor by CHOKING on those polluted waters you made.
At it’s most base level, this idiot’s proposal would put the Judicial branch under the Executive, effectively reducing our branches to two...
I love it when psychotic RATS talk about violating the “Spirit of the Constitution” after complaining about how outdated it is. Or when they talk about Conservatives violating “historical norms”. First of all Conservatives are all about conserving historical norms (hence the term conservative), while the left has been in the process of destroying every norm established over the last 2000 years! Meanwhile the historical norms the left wish to retain were established as far back as the Obama admin. Mr Faris is another radical leftist trying to rationalize using unconstitutional methods to obtain power and control. PS he also a University Professor no doubt indoctrinating young skulls full of mush.
There is nothing lower or more vile than a Democrat politician--unless it's its henchman.
I don't care how popular Woods is he is wrong, wrong, wrong.
America is a Constitutional Republic. Representation is laid out in the Constitution.
One must precede the other. Which one does that?
Start with a false premise and you will always get an incorrect conclusion.