Posted on 08/13/2019 9:23:24 AM PDT by jazusamo
Several high-profile Senate Democrats warned the Supreme Court in pointed terms this week that it could face a fundamental restructuring if justices do not take steps to "heal" the court in the near future.
The ominous and unusual warning was delivered as part of a brief filed Monday in a case related to a New York City gun law. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., referenced rulings by the court's conservative majority in claiming it is suffering from some sort of affliction which must be remedied.
"The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it," the brief said. "Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be 'restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.'"
The last part was quoting language from a Quinnipiac University poll, in which 51 percent favored such restructuring. In the same poll, 55 percent believed the Supreme Court was "motivated by politics" more than by the law.
Dramatic changes to the Supreme Court have been proposed by several Democrats vying for their party's 2020 presidential nomination, with "court-packing" being a common -- though highly controversial -- suggestion. Increasing the number of justices on the court would allow the president to shift the balance on the bench by loading up justices of his or her preference.
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did roberts flip them off yet?
FDR's court-packing scheme writ small, by Demagogues from the Demagogic Party, all of whom are unfit for office -- any office -- and claim to be against politicizing of the Court, which is and has been the goal of the Demagogic Party, right up to this "warning".
Good one. :^)
Odd, you’d think turning everything in the Constitution on it’s head would be considered more political that placing the people before the goobermint.
Kinda like how they demand absolute “stare decisis” for their 50 year old decisions that gleefully defied centuries of precedent. “It’s not bad when WE do it!”
Your proposal is acceptable.
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