Who would be the sixth?
Posted on 03/18/2019 1:16:07 PM PDT by caww
Eh, why not? ...Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand told POLITICO they would not rule out expanding the Supreme Court if elected president... But what if the current President plays that game first?
So why wait on this terrible idea? Let’s do it now. Trump should announce that he has nominated 6 justices to the Supreme Court to expand it to 15 seats. With a 53-seat majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell could get them all confirmed by the end of the summer at the latest....After all, the best defense is a good offense, right? Thanks to several Democrats who ought to know better, it’s now being seen as a legitimate move.
If Trump tries it, Congress would move heaven and earth to block him from succeeding at his court-packing plan, and that would be a bipartisan effort...but this would generation an outrage of an order of multitude higher. Legislation to limit the Supreme Court to nine seats might even pass on unanimous votes, or at least far more than would be needed for a veto override.
That assumes that Trump would veto such a bill. He’d get exactly what he wants — a way to make sure that the current composition of the court endures, plus a strengthening of an institutional norm as his legacy. At the very least, it would expose his potential 2020 challengers as the idiots and blowhards they are for floating this idea in the first place, and that is in itself priceless
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Morrisey is smoking something.
They’ll just refuse to confirm anyone Trump nominates to the extra seats. No need to engage the drama beyond that.
I believe that Congress has the power to set the size of the judiciary and its component courts.
Pandora’s box is best left closed...
I think he should launch it just to see their hair on fire.
The supreme court, through legislation, was fixed at 9 seats in the late 1800s. It would take a huge effort to change that number.
The supreme court, through legislation, was fixed at 9 seats in the late 1800s. It would take a huge effort to change that number.
I’d prefer to stop playing this game with these ones and just have it out right now, because free people and tyrants are not going to coexist.
Yep. President Trump adds six and the next Democrat president adds nine. Sure, they might anyways but at least precedence hasn't been set.
This being said, holding on to the USSC is of paramount importance to liberals as they look towards an activist Supreme Court to aid them in their efforts to reform the Senate into a population-based institution.
I wish we could simply countermand every single action taken by a dem president with a single judge, or use the judiciary as a super legislature accountable to no one, but we all know that will never happen on the conservative side
Congress has set the supreme court size (number of justices) ever since our republic was founded.
it has been 6,7,9,10,7, and then 9 again.
It has been 9 since 1869.
FDR tried to pack the court up to 15, but Congress didn’t approve
Because neither the Democrats or the Republicans could muster the 60 votes needed to get a court-packing scheme into law.
did not work well for FDR. Doubt GOP Senators will go for this.
Let us reconfigure the Circuits Court.
Trump should go ahead and do it.
Even if jokingly (but not telling democrats he’s joking), to see all democrats suffer heart attacks as soon as they hear Trump suggest it.
Who would be the sixth?
These are current (but not all) LibDemCommie planks of their 2020 platform.
The first person that says "...yeah but you forgot xyz" will be subject to ridicule...just add your own comment, not go after me for forgetting your pet peeve....I'm sure there are many more.
o hell no
NO!
We do it, and they do it.
It would resolve nothing, and create a very bad precedent that the Leftists would exploit at once when their turn came.
There would go the Second Amendment.
NO!
Anything that makes liberal heads explode is fine by me.
It wouldn’t hurt to propose it and force them to denounce it.
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