And Kennedy was the bitch that sided with the libs.
“Justice Ginsburg wrote that the Constitution’s reference to “legislature” encompassed the people’s legislative power when acting through ballot initiatives. “
Cool, so I’m a member of the IL legislature then? Eh?
Well, now we know you can predict certain Supreme Court cases in this manner.
What do you think about vacating Supreme Court seats by abolishing them? Is that possible? It will never happen of course, but it should.
If Congress reduces the number of seats to 7 (by overriding Obama’s veto, in your fantasy scenario), then the Court would stay at 9 (remember, they’re lifetime appointments) until someone retires or dies, and then would drop to 8 with no replacement named, and after the next death or retirement it would drop to 7 and stay there. So, basically, it would take power away from the next president to fill the next two vacancies in the Court, which is nowhere near as good as having the next Republican president fill the next few vacancies. The only time that has been done was after Lincoln was assassinated and Congress (which had a Republican supermajority) didn’t want his Democrat VP Andrew Johnson filling vacancies in the newly expanded 10-seat Court, so Congress reduced the number of Justices to 9 (overriding Johnson’s veto) and then the next time a justice retired the vacancybwent unfilled and the seat was eliminated.