How the Democrats Could Thwart Trump’s Supreme Court Takeover (These people are pure pond scum)

the Daily Beast ^ | 5/11/2018 | DAVID FARIS

[Beave Meister]

When it comes to filling vacancies on the Supreme Court and lower courts, the Democrats have played nice for far too long.

If you’re a Democratic partisan, the name Merrick Garland probably still makes your blood boil. And it should. As the Supreme Court prepares to issue verdict after verdict that will further entrench conservative power in the United States, the far-reaching effects of Mitch McConnell’s darkly clever Garland hold-up will only become more shocking and problematic. The most galling fact is this: in any sane political system, conservatives would be in the minority, both on the Supreme Court and in the rest of the federal judiciary. And the next time they are in power, Democrats must rectify this injustice by adding seats to the Supreme Court and radically enlarging the federal judiciary, filling those slots with the most outrageous liberals they can find.

Why? The Democratic candidate has won a popular vote majority in six of the last seven presidential elections. Over that same time period, Democrats have secured 30 million more votes for the U.S. Senate than their Republican counterparts. In 2016 alone, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, and Democratic candidates received 11 million more votes for the Senate. The record here is clear: Over the past 26 years, the American people have voted, over and over again, to give Democrats the authority to staff the federal judiciary with living constitutionalists, and instead what they have received is a Supreme Court that remains in the death grip of a radical, conservative majority and lower courts that have flipped back and forth between Democratic and Republican appointees. Here, as in so many other ways, American democracy has misfired by hewing to institutions and procedures cooked up over candlelight a hundred years before....

[Chode]

damn right... nine is NOT carved in stone.

[Revolutionary]

If you think that the left is mentally unstable; wait until President Trump replaces a liberal SC Judge. Or even Justice Kennedy. When it comes to the left: what they can not get at the voting box, they get through the courts. If Hillary would have won; they would have had total control of the “doomsday device”.

[DeweyCA]

Here is info on this guy from his bio webpage. Roosevelt University is a small, unimportant college in downtown Chicago. It is close to where Saul Alinsky did his work. This guy is a typical Leftist, who thinks that he is morally and intellectually superior to the rest of us and so he, and people like him, should rule over us. And like Alinsky, "the ends justify the means", and so they will stop at nothing to get their way. This is what we are fighting.

I’m currently program director of Political Science at Roosevelt University in downtown Chicago. I earned my PhD in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. My book with Melville House Publishing on political reform in the United States, called "It’s Time To Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics" will be published on April 10th, 2018.