Posted on 03/12/2019 9:49:44 AM PDT by E Pluribus Bellum
Former Attorney General Eric Holder has suggested to his fellow Democrats that one way to put their stamp on American history, especially in light of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's and President Trump's agenda, is to expand the Supreme Court. He made the farfetched proposal last week at Yale Law School and Columbia University.
"Given the Merrick Garland situation, the question of legitimacy is one that I think we should actually talk about," Holder said. "We should be talking even about expanding the number of people who serve on the Supreme Court, if there is a Democratic President and a Congress that might be willing to do that.”
Holder is one of many Democrats still sour about McConnell's decision to hold up Obama's Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland for months after Justice Antonin Scalia's death. McConnell's hardline paved the way for President Trump to nominate and confirm his own justice, Neil Gorsuch. He confirmed another, Brett Kavanaugh, after that. So it's obvious why Democrats are starting to bite their fingernails.
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FDR threatened the same thing.
That could backfire rather amusingly
It has nothing to do with McConnell.
They are going to do this once they have both Houses and POTUS. Because their agenda is basically DOA otherwise.
It’s a naked power grab, nothing more. And unlike in FDR’s day I don’t expect many Dems are going to balk at it over Constitutional concerns.
Given the Schumer in 2007 situation, you don’t confirm any Supreme Court nominee x months before an election.
All liberals that are on the verge of blowing a gasket ... will ...
Okay, let’s suppose they do.
The next Republicans could do it again.
Then the Dems do it again.
Pretty soon you have a 33 member SC...................
The Constitution gives Congress complete freedom in setting the number of Supreme Court justices. So a Democrat Congress could set the number at, say, 15.
Then a Democrat president could immediately appoint 6 new justices. All very legal. All very constitutional. And what could we conservatives say about it? We believe in the Rule of Law. And no law was broken or ignored here.
This has to be a Democrat proposal, since it is idiotic by even the most simple analysis.
If the Democrats expand the Supreme Court to force a bunch more liberals on it, what stops the Republicans from doing the same?
Maybe they'll all realize how stupid this is when we end up with 35,000 U.S. Supreme Court justices.
Since Ronald Reagan was inaugurated in 1981, there have been a total of 20 two-year terms of Congress (including the current term that began in January 2019 and will end in January 2021). There have only been 5 terms where the same party controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. Notice which party had full control in three of the five ... and three of the last four, too:
1993-1995 (Democrats)
2003-2005 (Republicans)
2005-2007 (Republicans)
2009-2011 (Democrats)
2017-2019 (Republicans)
Do the Democrats really want to go down this road?
The courts barely have credibility now, packing the courts in this manor would destroy what’s left. The liberals destroy everything they touch. I don’t see how we can continue to coexist.
GOP should respond by proposing to
1) fill all vacant federal justice positions in the next 90 days (180 ish justices)
2) Expand (perhaps double) the number of immigration justice positions and fill in the next six months
3) Split up the 9th Circuit by adding another circuit court and fill those positions within 1 year.
This would of course, make the GOP the owner of the nomination and passage of those positions. Something the liberals will not tolerate.
That's for the existing seats. What about the NEW ones? /S
Eric the gun runner thinks he can still make the rule as he sees fit.
> Okay, let’s suppose they do. The next Republicans could do it again. <
I wonder. With no foreseeable end to all this illegal immigration, will the GOP ever hold the House again? After all, demographics is destiny.
Elections have consequences, Eric. Just ask your old boss.
Since they suggested it that’s what the GOP should do.
Where is RBG?
Don’t know, the media said she returned to work which I believe is hogwash. RBG is now treated like a Bigfoot sighting.
The moment they think they can get away with it, they will.
They did it with the stimulus boondoggle, the ACA, the cover ups of fast and furious, EPA collusion with environmental groups, Imran Awan, the Hillary investigation, the Iran deal, and the Mueller investigation. And that’s just off the top of my head.
It’s not a threat or a suggestion, it’s a plan and a promise.
They certainly seem bent on destroying this country. To them, a statist tyranny is best built out of ashes.
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