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Kavanaugh will be on the US supreme court for life. Here's how we [liberals] fight back
The Guardian ^ | 10/09/2018 | Ian Samuel

Posted on 10/09/2018 10:10:21 AM PDT by nikos1121

Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed, and he will serve as a justice on the supreme court for the rest of his life. This event assures rightwing dominance of the court for a generation – or so we are told. After all, at 53, he is not even the youngest conservative: Justice Neil Gorsuch is 51. The chief justice, who has been there for more than a decade, is only 63. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by contrast, is 85, and Justice Stephen Breyer is 80. We are in, it seems, for decades of misery for labor unions, voting rights, regulation of businesses and all the rest. Or are we? The logic behind this “lost for a generation” stuff is simple enough. There are nine seats on the supreme court. All of its members serve for life. The five-justice conservative majority is quite young and seems healthy. Given all that, Kavanaugh’s confirmation is the final nail in the coffin, isn’t it? The ray of hope, if there is one, lies in contradiction of the first of those premises. Nothing in the constitution fixes the number of supreme court seats at nine. The size of the court is set by legislation, and has varied over time. We started with six. We’ve gone as high as 10 (when Abraham Lincoln was president, and Congress worried about a reactionary supreme court invalidating his wartime measures). Only recently, Republicans held the court to eight members for a year in the wake of Antonin Scalia’s death. So, then, the next time the left has some political power, why not just expand the size of the supreme court and add another handful of justices? Make Brett Kavanaugh a gifted and energetic member of a 10-to-5 minority. Don’t get mad, in other words: get even.

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To: Verginius Rufus

#metoo

I was trying to catch someone and then explain it just as you did.

I’ll have to try again...

There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
Those that understand binary numbers and those who don’t.


101 posted on 10/10/2018 5:10:57 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
They will have to wait awhile even if they are foolish enough to try. Trump will obviously veto the bill. The Guardian nitwits forgot about that little detail.
102 posted on 10/10/2018 4:42:48 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: nikos1121

We’ll just have to not let you swine win an election ever again.


103 posted on 10/10/2018 5:09:44 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal)
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