FDR threatened the same thing.
That could backfire rather amusingly
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.
Eric the gun runner thinks he can still make the rule as he sees fit.
Elections have consequences, Eric. Just ask your old boss.
Since they suggested it that’s what the GOP should do.
Where is RBG?
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 have done this in the past and it was a total FU.
They should expand it to 100, two from each state....
Or maybe 435, with one from each House district....
Typical of the Progressives - pack the courts by changing the law so that you can.
For anyone who is interested, THIS judicial chicanery is at the heart of the EU disputes with the government of Poland.
The government of Poland is the first real Conservative government of Poland since the end of the Soviet era.
The opposition KNEW they were going to lose the election to the parties that now run the government.
So at the 11th hour, on their way out the door, the opposition expanded the nation’s top court and immediately appointed their own appointees to the new positions.
The current government enacted legislation that (1) nullified those new positions, and (2) added into law certain operations rules of the top court. The changes of rules of the court was something that the opposition had also done when they expanded the court in the 11th hour of their reign.
The current government also began impeaching or removing judges who were former party or government officials of the Communist government of Poland during the Soviet era - something no previous government of Poland since that era had done. Why had no previous government of Poland done that? Many in the previous governments of Poland were Marxists who had simply taken off their Communist label they had been proud to wear during the Soviet era, and self-adopted a “socialist” or some sort of Liberal label.
No mass change of the sitting judges had been made upon the fall of the Communist government, and new “democratic” governments never removed those judges who were their old friends.
The new government was not blind to the treacherous history of their nation’s governments since the Soviet era. They are correcting that history.
The EU is upset, because it too is dominated by folks whose only objections to the Soviet Union was its military threat, but whose politics was never a big issue with those on the Left in western Europe.
The current head of the EU is a former president of Poland who was cozy with Marxists in Poland who had worked in the Communist government, and then merely changed their labels when it fell.
Yeah, go ahead and give that a try Donkeys. See how it works out for you.
Since 2016 the dems rarely put forth a policy proposal that is workable. And don’t say the Green New Deal. That this “New Deal” was their only policy proposal put forth since 2016 says it all. Instead, they are always in the news for a “let’s rig this so we win” proposal.
End the Electoral College,
Allow Illegals to Vote,
Automatic voter registration, no doubt followed by automatic or mandatory voting,
Forced ranked balloting,
Legalize Vote Harvesting (in states where they dominate ONLY, otherwise, complain about it in states where they do not dominate),
End Gerrymandering (In States where they can do so to favor them and by judicial fiat, think PA),
Rig social media to only accept their messages,
Put the Deep State above the elected states,
And now they promote this: Let’s expand the Supreme Court to whatever number is necessary to ensure that we are the majority.
Heads they win, tails they sorta lose, but either way, they win, OR ELSE. Or else they will just find a prosecutor to go all “Robert Mueller” on yer arse. Trust me, you have done something wrong. Probably not what they will accuse you of, but the initial accusation will only be to get the process rolling.
The Democrat Party stands for one thing, Totalitarianism. We can’t live this way and call ourselves free.
As is Lynch.