Twitter: Dem Congressional Candidate Calls for Supreme Court Term Limits and Court Packing

Twitter/ Ro Khanna (California House candidate) ^

[rbg81]

SCOTUS term limits wiill never happen, though a future Democratic president could expand the size of SCOTUS.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

The bar of impeachment is high to begin with. For judges, it’s impossible the way they choose to interpret.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

‘SCOTUS term limits wiill never happen, though a future Democratic president could expand the size of SCOTUS.’

In other words, ‘We’re doomed’.

I refuse to believe that. I refuse to tolerate any politician who thinks so cynically. Boot out such cynics and get it done.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

And I’ll tell you what — the game changer could be mandatory debate for professors, judges, and federal politicians.

— Mandatary, fair time, no moderator, posted online.

That would destroy the swamp utterly.

[rightwingcrazy]

College professors, then House and Senate.

[hanamizu]

This is a genuine threat from the left.

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Expanding the court is within the powers granted to Congress. But to do it would require them to control both houses of Congress and the Presidency. Even FDR couldn’t pull it off when the Dems had overwhelming control of Congress.

Limiting the terms of SCOTUS would require a Constitutional Amendment which would require the left to control both houses of Congress with 2/3 majorities and 38 of the state legislatures. That’s not going to happen.

But the proposal does reveal the left’s mindset. If we lose, the rules must be changed so that we win, like their dislike of the Electoral College.

[This I Wonder32460]

Dems seem to live in fantasy, life to them is a Hollywood movie, and they are the (?) hero.

[rightwingcrazy]

What happens if the Supreme Court rules Court packing and term limits to be unconstitutional? Would the Left accept the Final Authority that they always claim it has? Would they continue to demand that Precedent be held sacred?

[Ancesthntr]

I am only half kidding. I think that in a few years, when these people inevitably regain power, that it will be necessary to literally fight these people to prevent the imposition of a dictatorship.

[Robert DeLong]

A total of 114 people have served on the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest judicial body in the United States, since it was established in 1789. Supreme Court justices have life tenure, and so they serve until they die, resign or retire, or are impeached and removed from office. For the 105 non-incumbent justices, the average length of service was 6,203 days (16 years, 359 days). Their length of service ranges from William O. Douglas's 13,358 days (36 years, 209 days) on the Court to the 163-day tenure of Thomas Johnson. Among the current members of the Court, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving justice, with a tenure of 9,846 days (26 years, 349 days) as of October 7, 2018.

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So it appears to be working just fine the way it is and always has been.

[rbg81]

And I’ll tell you what — the game changer could be mandatory debate for professors, judges, and federal politicians.

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Maybe I’m not understanding. Professors are not elected or appointed by Congress.

[Engedi]

Term limits for the Judges but not themselves? Ironic.

[TexasGurl24]

You’d need a Constitutional Amendment for terms, as the Constitution currently is a de facto life term.

It is true that Congress could add justices as the number is set by statute. It’s been nine since 1869.

FDR wanted to pack the court, but was shut down. These new communists won’t hesitate to pull the trigger if they ever get power back.

[Iron Munro]

Whenever rules and laws don’t work to the democrats advantage they come up with the brilliant idea to change them so they do.

ISSUE: Hillary loses the Presidential election with fewer electoral college votes than Trump but has an extra 4 million fraudulent
and illegal alien votes in New York and California.

DEMOCRAT SOLUTION: Abandon the Electoral College system and elect presidents by popular vote.

ISSUE: Democrat BORKING fails in their effort to block President Trump’s Supreme Court nominees.

DEMOCRAT SOLUTION: Set term limits for Supreme Court Justices so they can get a re-do in later years.

[TigerClaws]

Bad idea.

I’d rather keep Trump’s 3, 4, possibly 5 SCOTUS picks on the court for 30-40 years.

[TigerClaws]

Yes. Once Dems pack the courts they can do whatever they want.

See ObamaCare, for example.

[TigerClaws]

Thank you for pointing this out!

So no term or age limits absent a constitutional amendment.

[ptcmama]

Well they already killed one - Scalia. i am convinced he was conveniently murdered.

[Chode]

i've said right along that Trump needs to expand the court to 11!!!

[ealgeone]

Let’s repeal the 17th before we do anything.