Posted on 03/18/2019 1:16:07 PM PDT by caww
Judge Jeanine Pirro!!
There already is a statute limiting the Supreme Court to 9 seats. You would need new legislation to increase the number of justices.
Bloody Brilliant!
Go hit the books. No nominations by Trump as number is set to nine by law.
correct
Of course....and the Dems are actively discussing changing the law to enlarge the Court should any gain the Presidency.
Let’s make it 50 Supremes,Senate 300,double the house and Prez as 3.
they’ll refuse to confirm anyone trump appoints, and then stuff it with liberals when they get in
If signed by the president.
There is some merit to that thought. Trump wouldn't even have to formally propose it, just mention it in passing, then wait for the hyper-ventilating to begin. Get your DVDs ready to record, FReepers!!
“HotAir” has become pretty much unreadable anymore. Allahpundit is a Trump hating d*&chbag and Jazz Shaw is barely right 20% of the time. As for the rest, pfffffft.
When FDR proposed it even DEMOCRATS in the Senate refused to support monkeying with the Constitution in this manner.
I am under no illusions that the next time we have a Democrat Congress and a Democrat POTUS there will be any similar misgivings. They’ll ditch the filibuster and ramp it up to 15 justices faster than you can say “it’s a tax”.
The gay candidate just said this on FNS yesterday.
He might as well just do it. The leftists in the democrat party have declared war on the people of the United States.
Packing the court works both ways.
JoMa
I would support an increase of the size of SCOTUS to eleven, via a constitutional amendment which would:The effect of allowing the size of SCOTUS to increase to eleven would be twofold:
- allow each newly inaugurated POTUS to name two justices to SCOTUS, subject to senate confirmation only if the nominees were not publicly named two months before Election Day. And,
- require the senior (in time of service) justice(s) to retire as necessary to hold the number of justices down to 11.
That would IMHO be a reasonable arrangement. As matters now stand, we are in imminent danger of having a justice suffering from dementia and hanging on to office. Life expectancy increases being what they have been, there’s too much danger of people living long enough to get addled.
- it would mean that each two-term POTUS would name only 4/11, not 4/9, of SCOTUS, and
- it would in the long run mean that each SCOTUS justice would serve a 22 year, not an 18 year, term.
I'm with you, but I'm afraid a vast majority on the right and in the middle aren't willing to risk it.
With a 53-seat majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell could get them all confirmed by the end of the summer at the latest....
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That’s even more ludicrous than the headline.
With a 53-seat majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell could get them all confirmed by the end of the summer at the latest....
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That’s even more ludicrous than the headline.
Probably but it’s an interesting take since the Dems raised it in the first place.
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