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Senate Dems deliver stunning warning to Supreme Court: ‘Heal’ or face restructuring
Fox News ^ | August 13, 2019 | Ronn Blitzer

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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To: Buckeye McFrog

I wonder if John Roberts ever went to Epstein’s island.


41 posted on 08/13/2019 9:37:09 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: jazusamo

Democrats seeking fundraising donations.

We are mean. See! Pay up!


42 posted on 08/13/2019 9:37:42 AM PDT by TheNext (Diversity: Darker Replaces Lighter)
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To: jazusamo

These RAT senators are the amongst the biggest left-wing $hit stains out there.

And a poll by Quinnipiac? Every presidential election cycle, these idiots are so far off with their polling that it isn’t even funny.

I would ignore every Quinnipiac poll no matter the topic.


43 posted on 08/13/2019 9:37:50 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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To: jazusamo
Are the dems making an assassination threat because what they said sounds like one.
44 posted on 08/13/2019 9:38:09 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: jazusamo

Would be fun to see if the existing Supreme Court would permit a blatantly political move to add justices to make it another 9th Circuit.

My bet is that they’ll simply rule the move as ‘unconstitutional’, and dispense with that crap.


45 posted on 08/13/2019 9:38:28 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: IronJack

And the irony is they are using political pressure to “reduce the political influence” they claim, all because they don’t like the way the Court has ruled.


46 posted on 08/13/2019 9:40:13 AM PDT by JWNM
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To: jazusamo

How much did the Quinnipiac poll have hilLIARy winning buy?


47 posted on 08/13/2019 9:40:19 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: jazusamo
The Senators involved, in this unveiled threat, are certainly not known for their fidelity to the Constitution. Patriots should seize every opportunity to demonstrate their ignorance of the Constitution, they were sworn to uphold.

Constitutional Overview

48 posted on 08/13/2019 9:42:25 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: dp0622

Bump!

The Rats are desperate, we must reelect President Trump.

KAG!


49 posted on 08/13/2019 9:42:57 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

‘...referenced rulings by the court’s conservative majority in claiming it is suffering from some sort of affliction which must be remedied.”

I use to discount a civil war, but it looks like it is coming. When the democrats refuse to accept the will of the people and criminalize their opposition, then war is inevitable.


50 posted on 08/13/2019 9:43:13 AM PDT by odawg
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To: jazusamo

Boo-hoo. The Left has used the SCOTUS to manufacture a right for women to kill 60,000,000 babies and a right to dismantle the family structure of civilization by finding a right of homosexuals to “marry.”

It is way past time for conservatives to try to salvage the rights granted to us by our Creator from the rapacious maw of the Left. The Second Amendment MUST be fought for to heal our damaged Constitution.


51 posted on 08/13/2019 9:43:22 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: jazusamo

How does any sane person vote for these morons, should I say, petulant children that aren’t getting their way? If you’re a legitimate, hard core Leftist and think these people will start giving you free everything, like manna from Heaven, I kind of get it. You should be smart enough to know that isn’t going to happen, but, to each their own.

But, if you’re just a run o’ the mill, Democrat or Left-Leaning Centrist/Independent, and you vote/support these people, just because they aren’t the President or because of your “passionate” disagreement with the President, you need to have your head examined.

The Left/Dem’s/these Clowns have been conditioned for decades because so many things have gone their way. Now they get a little pushback and the world is coming to an end.

And when it comes down to it, IMHO, it can all be narrowed down to two things: The President not rolling over for China and other countries in trade negotiations and illegal aliens/refugees/immigration policies, which will cause the Dem’s to lose support in the voting booth.


52 posted on 08/13/2019 9:43:46 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: teeman8r

See post # 43.


53 posted on 08/13/2019 9:43:50 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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To: jazusamo

Another reminder why the Second Amendment is so important. If we don’t have the Second, we have none.


54 posted on 08/13/2019 9:43:55 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: dp0622

Regardless of who wins and loses in 2020, America is in for some bad, bad times.

Either way, The Left is going to have to be dealt with.

Free People cannot coexist with Nazis.


55 posted on 08/13/2019 9:44:00 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: chris37

Label them NOW— everywhere. The “Nuremburg Laws Five”... make sure to include the “LAWS” part of these socialistic rule by judges legislator ass clowns. Mark Twain said “History doesn’t repeat, but it does Rhyme!!”.

We are not ruled by Judges and were never ever intended to be- except by the CONSENT of the governed through representatives. The NUREMBURG LAWS FIVE- may represent what they say is the consent of their constuencies but this is NOT the entire US. They must be shut down! Constitution is all over this.

Please— FREEPERS get behind this. They are EXACTLY the kind of reichstag socialists who DID approve all kinds of Judge ruled and created Nuremburg Laws-including gun seizures and bans- for the Leftist Socialists whom the world came to know as Nazis!

Slam them— hard— and let them keep up this sheer lunacy totalitarianism. Sheldon (weenie) Whitehouse— who grew up on his daddy’s massive FL plantation (and had to sell it because he couldn’t run crap) when he wasn’t in RI- with his credit loan slavery business, and social justice meddling.


56 posted on 08/13/2019 9:45:17 AM PDT by John S Mosby
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The President should announce that he “hears” them about the need to expand the Court and attempt to do it under his presidency. Then they will have to be on record as opposing it and, even though it is obvious, it will be shown to be an obviously political influenced move.


57 posted on 08/13/2019 9:45:19 AM PDT by JWNM
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To: gathersnomoss

“Bad dog”

Heal is the command I gave my dog to get in formation and follow me.

Do the Dems really think thay have trained the Supreme Court that well?


58 posted on 08/13/2019 9:47:12 AM PDT by fproy2222 (MAGA)
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To: jazusamo

I imagine whatever case they attached that brief to was a throwaway.


59 posted on 08/13/2019 9:47:24 AM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: jazusamo

So, the Dems want to stack the court as FDR wanted to?


60 posted on 08/13/2019 9:48:17 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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