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To: JohnBovenmyer

Great idea, but Dems would just Judge shop and get it denied.


46 posted on 08/15/2022 12:39:49 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: Engedi
Well, if one keeps appealing AND can get the higher courts to take the case, the opportunities for judge shopping decline.

But a good side point would be, IF the GOP can somehow regain government, amongst the many changes that need to be made are procedural and jurisdictional changes within the Article 1 courts (and also the administrative courts delegated to the executive branch (to the extent they aren't just abolished). Years back Mr. Newt, back when I still trusted him, ran for President claiming to have a bunch of plans for reforming the legal system. They may not all be desirable (I lost my trust for him when I heard, in person, him give a talk on health care policy and he was talking up a plan similar to what Obama eventually dumped on us; I was sorely tempted but still too polite to walk out.) but they may offer insights on how and where the system can be reformed. There are supposed to be checks and balances between all the branches, but the ones by the legislature on the courts are often not obvious. Yet the federal courts, excepting SCOTUS, are nearly all creations of the legislature and the legislature establishes their jurisdictions. The historian buried within Mr. Newt might well have pointed to some historically and constitutionally valid, but long overlooked avenues for reform. If not from Newt's ideas the GOP needs to think back to first principles from other sources.

50 posted on 08/15/2022 1:47:54 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris press events are called dodo ops)
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