Posted on 03/02/2010 3:42:43 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
I don't think so at all. When FDR tried to pack the court, it was because the Court had repeatedly struck down parts of his New Deal. This Court hasn't done that. Really, it hasn't been hostile to the administration at all--it hasn't had time to be--Obama has only been in office for a year; it's just been more conservative than, presumably, the administration would like.
It would be seen for what it is: a naked power grab, and people don't like that. It would be a dumb move.
This is obamas first "float" of this plan, they will push for it, until we (America) as a whole push back.
On the contrary he should reduce the court to 5. Keep Roberts, Thomas, Scalia and Alito. Ditch 4 of the remaining 5.
In other words, screw having three branches of government.
“This smacks of a “Losers Limp”. You just can’t get your moronic points across your way, so you change the rules. This is somethings kids do on the playground.”
It’s right out of the Great Depression FDR playbook.
The only aspect in which Obama has failed to emulate FDR, the Son of Satan, and these guys think he should do that one too.
Thank God we have four people in the SCOTUS that understand the Constitution and up hold it.
Hardliners? Our commie chickens have come home to roost with this administration, the foxes are getting anxious.
There’s also something about tradition you don’t mess with willy-nilly. Nine justices has been the law since 1869. That’s worked out relatively well for almost a century and a half.
We could change a lot of things that aren’t explicitly in the Constitution, but at what political cost, and for what political motivation?
This is raw, naked politics. The Left doesn’t like Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito, so this is their plan. They fail to understand that the Right is equally displeased with Ginsburg, Stevens, Bryer, and Sotomayor. Should we be allowed to pack the court to lessen their influence?
The Leftist will say absolutely not, those are the good judges! Oh contrare, says the Right, Thomas, Scalia, Roberts and Alito are the good guys! And so then it comes down to the truth; whose ox is being gored... This Leftist writer should be ashamed of himself. It’s just politics. No place for the rule of law.
Fail.
They really do want to trigger a Civil war don’t they?
We had all better be contacting legislators and getting that number cast in stone before Obozo reads this and goes crazy.
Its a thought but it wont happen. There will be the most God Awful bloody revolution the world has ever seen before that happens.
Yep, it's "Calvinball" as government. Naturally, they'll try to limit the size of the court immediately *after* tipping it in their favor, to prevent the same tactics from being used against them.
That's because several members retired and he was able to replace them with his own appointees, keeping the original number.
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Obama should just declare himself “Supreme Ruler” or “King of the US” and skip all this fancy “court packing” nonsense.
I have another idea. Constitution allows the Federal judiciary to be reduced to a Supreme Court and one person. It should be done with Scalia or Thomas as Chief Justice of the United States. Give him a few hundred million for staff. Let him spend the rest of his life overturning the laws we have.
OK increase the number of justices - pass the law.
but...Obama doesn’t get to pick them.
The next time the opposing party gets elected THEY get to appoint them.
That way no party will ever want to do it.
That’s what I was thinking.
The mood of the country is about the same as around May of 1776...
The fascists try anything like this and it won’t be other politicians that they have to worry about.
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