Am I correct in thinking they can only make “changes” to the Supreme Court it would require a Constitutional amendment?
Yes, this is nothing more than red meat to inspire their lunatic base. They know full well they legally can do nothing, still does not mean they won’t pass an unconstitutional law, that would be a bonus for them seeing the supreme court struggle when striking down such a law, they want this level of chaos.
I don’t think there is anything in the Constitution stating how many Justices sit on the Supreme Court or that it has to be a lifetime term.
It depends on what changes they propose.
Changing the lifetime tenure of Supreme Court Justices would require a constitutional amendment.
But adding justices to the Supreme Court, changing the number of seats on the Supreme Court , would only require an act of Congress.
And I think there is a code of ethics that lower court federal judges are held to. If they want to extend that code of ethics to the Supreme Court I don’t know if that requires legislation, or perhaps action on the part of the court itself to set up ethical standards.
But I don’t think a code of ethics would require a constitutional amendment.
They'll do whatever they want. Increasingly, no one has shown the will to stop them.
If only they were bound by the Constitution. They have repeatedly demonstrated that they are not, and that no one will hold them to account.
“Am I correct in thinking they can only make “changes” to the Supreme Court it would require a Constitutional amendment?”
It has been a while since I read anything on the subject, but here’s my recollection. The Constitution is somewhat vague on the Supreme Court. The Supremes didn’t become an important thing until a few decades after the nation was formed. They were even decades late in keeping written records on their decisions. Numerous presidents have threatened to expand the court and pack it to get their way, and those threats have probably resulted in decisions that went the way the president wanted. This tells me the court as it stands now is vulnerable to being changed, packed and turned into a tool of the Democrats. The danger of this is they use the court to enact legislation that they couldn’t possibly get through Congress. This has been going on for a very long time.
At this point, almost any change to the court would be hard fought and probably not in the favor of “conservatives.” I put that in quotes because what people believe is conservative is highly personal and certainly not universal. The best a conservative can hope for is not to have any changes in the current system. “Conservatives” will fight each other to the death, leaving the page open for lock-step liberals to come in and rewrite the entire thing to their liking.
They can change how many judges are on the court. Not much else though.
Mostly yes