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Dems threaten to pack Supreme Court if Trump gets nominee confirmed
Fox News ^ | 9/20/2020 | Adam Shaw

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: andagain; congress; constitution; democrats; edmarkey; fdr; joekennedyiii; kentucky; massachusetts; mitchmcconnell; ruthbaderginsburg; scotus; senate; trump
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The Dems are the party of all kinds of Packing, why would the Supreme Court be any different.

Dems: luggage, to get from riot to riot
fudge
SCOTUS

Repubs only have one kind: Heat


81 posted on 09/20/2020 10:06:41 PM PDT by C210N
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Look the Democratic Party has gone off the rails and is now full on psychotic leftist Marxist anarchist nut balls

My most famous saying is “more free speech”

Let these moron leftist idiot Democrats state all of these opinions far and wide ! and finally wake up their voters to how stupid they are to vote for these people

Unfortunately for us sensitive constitutional conservatives there is a good sizable 30% of the population that actually likes all of this craziness


82 posted on 09/20/2020 10:11:31 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The Dems owe China the Supreme Court.
And they promise to deliver!


83 posted on 09/20/2020 10:13:16 PM PDT by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: Secret Agent Man
Trump will get 4 more years, he could very easily pack the courts.

Trump would need both houses of congress to pass a law.

84 posted on 09/20/2020 10:34:42 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Omg. These congressmen and women are leading the example of complete lunacy. No wonder democrats are acting like 2 year olds having tantrums. Their reps are encouraging it as if it’s the right thing to do.

It feels like they are All demon possessed


85 posted on 09/20/2020 10:53:12 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Can we pack with conservatives, especially 2nd amendment favoring gun owners?


86 posted on 09/20/2020 11:22:59 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

They we planning to do it anyways.


87 posted on 09/20/2020 11:33:41 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: servantboy777

Expect massive voter fraud the likes we haven’t ever seen before. Took me a while, but I’ve come to understand the whole covid scam was to push mail in votes because those are easy to fraud


88 posted on 09/20/2020 11:56:12 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Hidey Ho for Alcatraz 2020)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

yup, assuming that

and so would the democrats need both houses of congress

my point is their threat to do it is about as realistic as our threat to do it

and no one has tried it sonce fdr, and he failed, because people do not like politicians attempts to turn scotus into a puppet for one party

the dems cant get what they want through normal ways, so they threaten to pack the cpurts in their favor

and at the same time blast trump for using his legitimate presidential power to get what he wants put through in the normal legal existing ways


89 posted on 09/21/2020 12:10:13 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Can anyone tell me WTF it is soooo easy to pack the Supreme Court when it is so hard to impeach a Supreme Court Justice???!!

Shouldn't packing the Supreme Court be harder than impeaching a Supreme Court Justice or at least be the same, that you will need 2/3rd Senate Approval???!!

Which is nearly IMPOSSIBLE???!!!!



90 posted on 09/21/2020 1:13:19 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: Blood of Tyrants

bookmark


91 posted on 09/21/2020 2:32:22 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Hey Rep Kennedy, what's "simple" is you!

moron!

92 posted on 09/21/2020 4:14:06 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: Monty22002

Count on it being close through simple math...the people that voted Hillary last time will more than likely vote Biden...those voting for Trump will more than likely vote for Trump. The key is the indies/uncommitted/mushy middle that can’t make their mind up (which to me, is inconceivable, but that’s just me) yet. With the unrest, riots, etc., that favors Trump as 99.99% of the country do not like that, no matter who the President is. However, since it’s a vote state by state and winner gets all the EVs (in almost all cases) all it takes is one more vote than the other guy in each state. So, it will be close, but based on your anecdotal evidence (I’ve seen similar in my travels), notwithstanding fraud, Trump wins easily.


93 posted on 09/21/2020 4:51:59 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Pack it and do it. FDR did it and the consequences lasted generations


94 posted on 09/21/2020 4:55:24 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; BillyBoy; NFHale; KC_Lion; LS; DarthVader

Oh look...another Kennedy looking to further destroy the country.

F**k you, you wannabe Spaulding Smails.


95 posted on 09/21/2020 5:13:20 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Trump has drawn them out into the open.
Excellent!


96 posted on 09/21/2020 5:57:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: noiseman
>>Navajo high school. Out front was a sign with the name of their sports teams on it. Anyone want to guess what it was?........THE REDSKINS!!!<<

I would have slammed on my breaks, landed in a ditch upside down, broken and bruised, crawled out of the mangled wreckage, dragged my body with broken leg in tow...to get a picture of that school's football team name...hahaha.

Thanx for the encouraging post. Top post of the day i’d say.

97 posted on 09/21/2020 6:52:28 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Blood of Tyrants

How would they pack the court if no conservatives retire? I’m pretty sure they all have decided they can last another four years.


98 posted on 09/21/2020 7:02:42 AM PDT by CottonBall (A Republican's power comes from your prosperity. A Democrat's power comes from your poverty.)
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To: CottonBall

Expand the court to more justices (the law currently sets it at 9 although there is no constitutional upper limit) and simply appoint them and have the Senate confirm them. But the more I think about it, with consideration of the comments above, this might not be a good idea for Trump because it would be seen as a blatant attempt at a power grab.


99 posted on 09/21/2020 7:09:15 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where do you find the word "except" in the 2nd Amendment?)
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To: HollyB

They ARE demon possessed. Evil has hold of them.


100 posted on 09/21/2020 8:44:56 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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