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Eric Holder Urges Democrats to Pack Supreme Court, Says Federal Courts Are Stacked with Ideologues “Who Reach Rulings Based on Stunted Mindsets”
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 1/27/2021 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 01/27/2021 12:00:34 PM PST by bitt

Former Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at a Brookings Institute forum on court reform on Monday.

Holder urged Democrats to pack the Supreme Court during his presentation. Holder, a far left Obama appointee, told the audience the federal courts are packed with ideologues “who consistently reach rulings based on their stunted mindsets.”

By this, he means conservative judges who follow the US Constitution. Breitbart.com reported:

Former Attorney General Eric Holder urged Democrats on Monday to pack the Supreme Court in response to what he called a crisis of “legitimacy” brought about by the appointment of a conservative majority.

Packing the Court would involve passing legislation to add seats to the nation’s highest judicial body, then using a simple Senate majority to fill the vacancies with liberals.

Holder was addressing a virtual seminar hosted by the Brookings Institution, “Is There a Path Forward for Court Reform?”

The left has shown interest in “reform” since President Donald Trump was able to appoint conservatives to the bench.

Holder began his presentation with what he called “three realities.” First, he said, “Democrats and progressives, are, and have been, uncomfortable with the acquisition and the use of power.” Republicans and conservatives, he said, were not.

Second, he said, the Supreme Court and other courts had been “political bodies.”

And third, he said, the Supreme Court had largely upheld the status quo in its decisions, “sometimes in a way that is inimical to our founding ideals.”

He said that the federal courts were stacked with “ideologues who consistently reach rulings based on their stunted mindsets.”

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1 posted on 01/27/2021 12:00:34 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 01/27/2021 12:00:49 PM PST by bitt (Joe Biden has managed to take everything that is wrong with DC bureacracy and fit it into 1 cabinet)
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I still hold Eric Holder in Contempt. It will be his brand for life.


3 posted on 01/27/2021 12:02:05 PM PST by usual suspect
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Sorry fool, the filibuster stays and the court is unchanged. Next stupid idea please?


4 posted on 01/27/2021 12:02:11 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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Holder should be in prison for running guns to Mexican cartels.


5 posted on 01/27/2021 12:03:11 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bitt

Of course he does. He envisions getting one of the new seats on the expanded court.


7 posted on 01/27/2021 12:04:53 PM PST by Saltmeat (69)
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Sorry fool, the filibuster stays and the court is unchanged.

You want to bet on that? It will be gone by the end of April, if not sooner.
8 posted on 01/27/2021 12:05:17 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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His pal Susan Rice has already put this in motion under her equity plan.


9 posted on 01/27/2021 12:05:48 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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Who can blame them after all the positive ruling in favor of PDJT in the (s)election issu............. Oh.!?


10 posted on 01/27/2021 12:06:33 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Screwed, blued and tatooed. Enlisted USN 1967.)
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Like Gay Marriage.
Roe V Wade.
Government can take whatever land from you they want if it’s for the greater good (however they define it).

You mean THOSE rulings you communist hack?


11 posted on 01/27/2021 12:09:29 PM PST by Skywise
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Eric the Red should be getting out of prison about now, secure in the knowledge, that, he will vote Bolshekrat more often when he is dead.


12 posted on 01/27/2021 12:09:33 PM PST by depressed in 06 (63 in '22. Now, more than ever! (I didn't take into account Mittens, Collins and Murkowski.))
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Anyone who disagrees with a leftist is mentally incapacitated and must be institutionalized.

-PJ

13 posted on 01/27/2021 12:09:45 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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Eric Holder Urges Democrats to Pack Supreme Court, Says Federal Courts Are Stacked with Ideologues “Who Reach Rulings Based on Stunted Mindsets”

Projecting much, Eric? Show mw any RAT appointed judge who even considers the Constitution in his decisions. Following our founding document now is portrayed as a "stunted mindset"! But, consider the source (a moron).

14 posted on 01/27/2021 12:10:13 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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The PuppetMaster of Antifa, BLM, New Black Panthers, SEIU, Acorn and Obama finally comes out of hiding.


15 posted on 01/27/2021 12:10:41 PM PST by Zathras
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To: bitt

He’s right, but about the wrong half.


16 posted on 01/27/2021 12:10:56 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: Political Junkie Too
Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

During the leadership of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, psychiatry was used to disable and remove from society political opponents ("dissidents") who openly expressed beliefs that contradicted the official dogma.[4][5] The term "philosophical intoxication", for instance, was widely applied to the mental disorders diagnosed when people disagreed with the country's Communist leaders and, by referring to the writings of the Founding Fathers of Marxism–Leninism—Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin—made them the target of criticism.[6]
Yikes, that it looking like the world under Bidenchev.
17 posted on 01/27/2021 12:14:06 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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"... He said that the federal courts were stacked with “ideologues who consistently reach rulings based on their stunted mindsets.”

WoW! Crack-Head Holder believes adhering to the rule-of-law is being a radical existential ideologue. I suppose following the Bible is much the same stunted mindset he refers to.

Juvenile clown ideologue is the mindset of Holder.
18 posted on 01/27/2021 12:14:27 PM PST by Bellagio
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So the Democrats own the Senate, House and WH, and now Eric is saying “Become a dictatorship now! Pack the court, own it, and we will have a complete Fascist Dictatorship”

Anyone else NOT see this?


19 posted on 01/27/2021 12:16:44 PM PST by realcleanguy
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People of the Left, like Holder, are working diligently to pull the democrats to the extreme Left, and then begin to shut out and punish conservatives.


20 posted on 01/27/2021 12:16:47 PM PST by robel
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