Who would be the sixth?
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...
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.
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.
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.
Why post this nonsense?
Collins, Murkowski, and five or six other RINO’s will veto this idea. It won’t pass.
Just forget about it and move on.
If Trump did it, he could claim progressive saint FDR tried it first.
Just one plain dumb idea.
While only the Senate votes to confirm SCOTUS appointments, it would take majorities in both houses to change the law. Of course, the House would never approve, nor the Senate likely. Now if the Dems get the Presidency and both houses of Congress, they’d do it in a heartbeat. Why? Because their thoughts and policies and ideas are right and we are despicable pond scum—in their minds.