Democrats are now trying to blackmail the Supreme Court

NY Post ^ | September 04 2019 | Marc Thiessen

[knighthawk]

In 2017, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) accused President Trump of showing “a disdain for an independent judiciary that doesn’t always bend to his wishes” after Trump criticized a judge who ruled against his administration. Senate Democrats, by contrast, have launched an unprecedented attempt to actually bend the Supreme Court to their wishes — threatening to restructure the court if the justices do not rule as they see fit.

The threat came over the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a challenge to New York City’s restrictions on how gun owners who have residential permits can transport their guns. In a legal brief, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Mazie Hirono, (D-Hawaii), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) argued that the case against New York was moot because it had rescinded the gun regulations in question. Fair enough. It is perfectly fine for the senators to make legal arguments in a legal brief to the court.

[nathanbedford]

We are supposed to believe that it is the right that has politicized the Supreme Court. In mitigation and justification, not that either is necessary, I offer the following events:

Roosevelt's attempt to pack the supreme court

The switch in time that saved nine

Justice Goldberg

Borking

Electronic lynching

Cavanaugh

Roe V Wade, its antecedents and sequelae

[Rashputin]

A Constitutional Amendment fixing the number of judges at nine would halt this sort of shit but as was obvious way back under FDR, the democrats are dead set on having political control of the Supreme Court.

Anyone who doubts it can just look at all the unAmerican rulings the USSC has made in spite of a vast majority of Americans being dead set against of what the Court ruled.

That's not judges bravely standing for the law, it's judges legislating from the bench what democrats can't get past the wishes of the people.

[ronnie raygun]

it’s judges legislating from the bench what democrats can’t get past the wishes of the people.
all in a nut shell

[sgt_lau]

And THAT is why the lefties are in total panic mode right now. They see their reliable means of pushing their agenda down our throats being threatened. Good!

[Boomer]

There’s no question all dem pols (and RINO’s) are the enemy of everything good and decent in the world. Now I believe all dem voters are the same. Claiming ignorance just isn’t good enough. They too are the enemy of everything good and decent. They all carry a demon on their shoulders.

[super7man]

Not being picky here but isn’t this really extortion not blackmail.

Blackmail is when you say, “I know something about you and will reveal it if you do not pay me.”

Extortion is when you say, “I will do something to you if you do not pay me.” More specifically, “I will restructure your court if you do not rule the way I want you to.”

[Lurker]

You forgot one:

Robert Bork.

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[BuffaloJack]

Is that what happened to Justice Scalia?

[nathanbedford]

#4

[Lurker]

Okay then Clarence Thomas.

LOL.

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[nathanbedford]

We both understand, of course, that the problem is not the number of justices rather it is that these justices have become tyrants in black robes and hence arises the deplorable but inescapable existential need is to make sure most of those berobed law policymakers are on our side.

The problem then is it the court has trespassed beyond its jurisdictional mandate and has entered the realm of politics and social policy without the mandate of the will of the people. It has essentially become an authoritarian arm of government.

Whose fault is that? Well, of course, the law schools have ceased to become a place where eager young minds go to emulate Oliver Wendell Holmes and have become a place to emulate Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Well, the law schools didn't spring fully formed from the earth, they are a function of the University system which has produced generations of elitists who assume the prerogative of ruling over us and, by extension, expect the Supreme Court not only to bless them in that venture but to actually collaborate and sanction.

By extension all our institutions, our religious institutions and especially the media have put us in a void, leaving the Supreme Court to fulfill nature's mandate.

Finally, Congress has abdicated its responsibilities as our article one institution and routinely passes the buck to regulators and judges by abdicating their responsibilities to legislate. When they do legislate, they legislate beyond their constitutionally mandated powers all the while in the reasonable expectation that the Supreme Court will sanction their constitutional usurpations.

[nathanbedford]

#5

[Lurker]

Okay....you win.

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[nathanbedford]

Too bad the country so often does not win in this arena.

[Lurker]

It is a pity.

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[USCG SimTech]

Attempting extortion of a federal official is a federal crime.