Court packing was rejected when FDR proposed it to a Congress that did anything he wanted, but these Leftists think they will have better luck. Yeah, sure.
So Harry Reid changing rules backfires on them so now they want to change rules again.
Definition of insanity is?
We should just void Marbury vs Madison and start all over, with federal judges appointed for fixed 10-year terms, after which they need to go through the nomination process again.
Under Franklin Roosevelt it was suggested he increase the number of SCOTUS Justices, so he could get more favorable rulings.
It went nowhere.
I wouldn't want to see either side do this.
Wonder why the commie’s are not talking about what they really want to do? Next time a Rat is elected president, just declare the constitution null and void, disband congress and the courts and become ruler for life.
It’s what they truly want and expect. They never have and never will believe in the rule of law, constraints on power, our representative form of government.
This could backfire on them, as when Harry Reid eliminated filibusters on judges.
That gave the usually spineless GOP the backbone to retaliate by extending it to SCOTUS, with the monumental result that simple majority votes will set the SC for a generation.
If the liberals go ahead and pack the court, the backlash could lead to a sweeping reform of the whole federal judiciary when conservatives take power afterwards.
I can’t believe Clinton put a 60 yr old(Ginsburg) on the Supreme Court.
So let’s say Trump is gone after his 8 year stint. And...we have another republican President. Then what, libtards.
Yeah Democrats tried this once before... didn’t work then either.
That’s a great way to ensure quick removal from power.
And if they try that they will get the same threats that FDR got when he proposed to do the same thing.
The politicians who try to do this leftists swindle might not be alive for very long.
And the Deplorables should pull a Greasy Grass on them....
In past, I have proposed a solution to several problems, which are:
1) Far too many appellate court cases are sent to the SCOTUS every year, which can only hear a tiny fraction of them. This creates a severe bottleneck. And many of these cases are “crap” cases that should never have entered the federal court system in the first place. But the SCOTUS still accepts them, bumping out legitimate cases.
2) The 17th Amendment, the direct election of senators, was profoundly anti-federalist, turning senators into “free agents” who do not have to act on behalf of their states, who lost a huge amount of power to the national government.
3) District court judges have been asserting control over national policy, which is intolerable, and was even mentioned by Justice Thomas as a major problem.
My solution to these problems is to create a 2nd Court of the United States, *not* of federal judges, but two judges appointed by state legislatures, to terms like their two senators. Resembling the original US senate, they would not determine “constitutionality” of laws, which is what federal judges do, but instead determine “jurisdiction” of court cases.
So when the US courts of appeals send their about 30,000 cases a year to the SCOTUS, the job of this 2nd Court would be to cull those cases that are not *clearly* in federal and constitutional jurisdiction.
If 51 of these 100 state judges ordered a case to be returned to the state, as a state, *not* federal case, it would no longer be sent to the SCOTUS.
And because these judges would be appointed or removed by their state legislature, they would have to be responsive to their state, or when their term was up, they would be replaced.
Congress would have to agree to add new justices. FDR’s court-packing was constitutional but thwarted for a time; then he got new liberal appointments with William O. Douglas and the former Klansman Hugo Black of AL.
Taking a page from FDR who made the court 15. It backfired on him, iirc
Leftists will never be in power in this country again, ever.
“as soon as they take back control of Congress and the White House. “
Let’s hope, this will be “never”
Commenters here on this thread seem to think that this can’t happen. They need to remember that this is exactly what Obama did to the DC Appeals Court. It is the reason that Harry Reed got rid of the filibuster rule on judicial appointments. Obama did it and those judges are still there and Trump and the Republicans have let them get away with it. Also, the ONLY reason that FDR was blocked is that some of his own party helped to stop his actions. Do you really think that there would be enough Dems to stop a Dem president from doing this?? NO, this packing of SCOTUS is a real possibility and a Dem President would be under a LOT of pressure to do this tactic.
Well, they just gave Trump this idea. So what’s to stop him from doing it now?
So, are the Democrats thinking of the pillow strategy?