Posted on 09/20/2020 6:41:12 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
As President Trump moves to nominate a candidate to fill the seat of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday, there are a growing number of Democrats threatening to implement a radical strategy and pack the Supreme Court if they take control of the White House and the Senate.
“If he holds a vote in 2020, we pack the court in 2021,” Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., tweeted on Saturday. “It’s that simple.”
“Mitch McConnell set the precedent. No Supreme Court vacancies filled in an election year. If he violates it, when Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court,” Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., tweeted.
The idea of “packing” the court with extra justices -- attempted unsuccessfully by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937 to force through parts of his New Deal that were ruled unconstitutional by the high court -- has bubbled away on the fringes of the party for years.
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Currently 9 Justices are in charge of 13 District Courts.
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The number of justices does need to be increased to 13, with a major reorganization of the courts.
For example, the 9th Circuit is way too large, by population, so needs to be subdivided.
And the SCOTUS can only hear 100-150 of the more than 7,000 cases appealed to them every year. And sadly, many of these “slots” are taken up by redundant and frivolous cases.
For example, the SCOTUS agreed to hear the ridiculous “Bong Hits For Jesus” case, from Alaska, TWICE. The justices love to waste time on lawsuits against public schools from irate parents and local agitators. So cases of that sort are heard again and again, never with any sort of final resolution.
The Judiciary committees need to put their foot down with a great list of lawsuits for which there is zero abiding federal interest, no matter how craftily phrased to appear to have one. Thus federal courts should reject and return them for the state courts to decide.
Thanks.
[A poor idea that has never succeeded in a free political society... The Founders established a Republic instead of a democracy to prevent such mob-driven totalitarian nonsense that, eventually, accompanies those ideas...]
In response then Trump should threaten to raise it to 20 during his next term.
So the Democrats need a trifecta to pack the courts?
If that’s the case, it’s a great issues for Republican House challengers in red/purple districts, such as Burgess Owens in Utah.
If Supreme Court Justices followed our Constitution instead of twisting interpretations to enable ideological agendas, this would be a non issue. Basically, the dems are saying they will pack the court with Justices that will rule in their favor no matter what our Constitution says.
Yes, they would need both houses of Congress and the Presidency.
[A poor idea that has never succeeded in a free political society... The Founders established a Republic instead of a democracy to prevent such mob-driven totalitarian nonsense that, eventually, accompanies those ideas...]
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Demographics is destiny and the GOP is on the losing end of the demographic race...
These idiots did not learn when they ended the cloture rule for 60 votes because of senator Harry Ried. This will bite them on the ass as well. The Republicans will win and can pack the court with 9 new conservative justices for a total of 18 so liberals will never win again. How did court packing go for FDR? Democrats are so unhinged and stupid and will bring this country to blows until they stop the rhetoric or just get obliterated at the poles and on the streets if they don’t stop their violence. It will be met with more than they can handle or tolerate.
How did unilaterally abolishing the filibuster for presidential appointments work out for the democrats? Are they really too stupid to understand what goes around comes around?
The next time the democrats control the Presidency, the House and the Senate they will pack the Court regardless of what the Republicans do now. Then, the next time the Republicans control the Presidency and both houses of Congress they will retaliate by repacking the Court. Eventually, there will be more Supreme Court Justices than there are Congresscritters.
Trum needs to conterstrike here by outlining the follwing plan:
1. Nominate one justice before the election
2. Add three more justices in 2021
3. Vow to Add Kanye West as one of the 3 added in 2021
4. reduce the number of SC Justices down to 1 in 2022
5. Make Kanye the sole SC justice, just for the LOL’s
In 4 years the Ticket needs to be PENCE/TRUMP for the next 8 years.
Stop being afraid of the dementia team of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.
“If the Demon-crats gain both Houses of Congress and the White House, their wish list will be enacted ASAP; Green New Deal, tax hikes, Medicare For All, DC and PR statehood, all of it”.
And that’s only the tip of the iceberg of what they want to do.
That’s why we need Mike Pompeo in 2024.
That's a big IF! Whether Trump nominates a replacement SC justice now or he waits until he wins reelection and the Dems lose the House and more seats on the Senate, he will STILL be naming a new justice. Won't they have to change the Constitution to pack the court anyway??? How's that going to happen with a majority Conservative court? Bunch of crybaby losers!
My exact thought!
Can you imagine the uproar had the Republicans threatened to do the same thing after Obama nominated Scalia’s replacement?! I sure am glad the Dems are all showing their true colors right before the election. It’s gonna make the choices so easy for the sane Americans that are still left.
That will start an escelation with every POTUS/Senate party change adding enough seats to change the idealogical balance.
Just like impeachment will now be automatic when the House majority party is different from POTUS’.
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