[ravingnutter]

In your plan, you are advocating that the President choose new judicial nominees to replace the others...they can't get the ones confirmed that are nominated now because of the Dems blocking them (see the article I linked to previously). How would that change in this situation? The Dems would love your plan...they could block nominations 'til the cows come home, the courts would be so backed up that nothing would get done. It just doesn't make sense to go that route.

[Reactionary]

I think we need to draft and enact laws at the state level that will allow the people to impeach judges and remove them.

If liberals want to play, we'll play.

[Political Junkie Too]

How would that change in this situation? The Dems would love your plan...they could block nominations 'til the cows come home, the courts would be so backed up that nothing would get done. It just doesn't make sense to go that route.

In my plan, the courts would be disbanded as we know them, and then reconstituted from scratch. For the Democrats to block nominees would be to run government with no circuit courts at all.

It is a brinksmanship exercise meant to play hardball, using powers already granted without resorting to an amendment.

-PJ