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Breaking: House and Senate DEMOCRATS rolling out bill to ADD FOUR JUSTICES to The Supreme court
TG ^ | 4/14/2021 | Evan

Posted on 04/14/2021 5:18:16 PM PDT by wrrock

DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS Intend To Unveil a Bill to Expand The Number of Supreme Court Justices on Thursday, according to three legislative sources familiar with the bill.

The bill would increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court from nine to thirteen.

Republicans currently hold 6 seats, while Democrats hold just 3 after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

The bill is sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, Subcommittee chair Hank Johnson, and freshman Rep. Mondaire Jones.

In the Senate, the bill is being championed by Ed Markey of Massachusetts.

(Excerpt) Read more at toptradeguru.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: packthecourt; scotus; supremecourt
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To: wrrock

They [Democrats should add 20, maybe 30 judges to the SC.


161 posted on 04/14/2021 9:09:10 PM PDT by sport
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To: sport

So, if you think this is going to pass, you should also go over to predictit and place those bets.

You too could get 20K.

But since you don’t, you won’t make those bets.

If the money scares you, I’ll put a standing offer on the table with the following terms:

Date: December 13th, 2021. (This is when the Senate goes into recess for the rest of the year).
Stakes: Continued posting on FR, with an admin enforced IP ban for the loser.

Are you game?


162 posted on 04/14/2021 9:24:18 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: for-q-clinton

“Then GOP adds 7 more. Where does it stop?”

When Conservatives regain power they can return the number to 9 using seniority - LIFO, or as you suggest, “Then GOP adds 7 more.”


163 posted on 04/14/2021 9:33:56 PM PDT by mouske
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To: wrrock

No. If the Dems add four to get 7-6 majority then the Repubs only have to add two to regain 8-7 majority (although seven would be surer).


164 posted on 04/14/2021 9:36:49 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: alrea

Don’t forget the tar and feathers, too.


165 posted on 04/14/2021 10:24:03 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: wrrock

Why not? The ship is sinking. Speed it up and drill some holes in the hull. Get it over with.


166 posted on 04/14/2021 10:26:54 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

Thanks


167 posted on 04/14/2021 10:28:14 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I think they are afraid that they will lose some of the special elections coming up and possibly lose the house. No matter, they don’t have 60 votes in the Senate for this and it can’t be placed in a reconciliation bill for a 51 vote passage. But, that might give them reasons to scrap the filibuster altogether.


168 posted on 04/14/2021 10:57:15 PM PDT by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
Hank Johnson...wasn’t he the one that said some island would tip over if?

Incredibly, Hank Johnson Thinks Guam will Tip Over

169 posted on 04/14/2021 10:59:29 PM PDT by nutmeg (God bless you and thank you, Rush)
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To: TakebackGOP

They don’t care


170 posted on 04/14/2021 11:58:24 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Dilbert San Diego

the commission is just to come up with BS reasons, like racism as to why they need to do it, the real reason as we know is complete power. The Dems understand power that better than we do, they never ever toss a Dem under the buss because they want the seats and majorities, we can’t stand Rinos and lose the House, then the Senate. Dems are setting it up so they will not lose another national election with their voter bill, the illegals are turning red states blue (it’s not liberals moving from CA as multiple studies have shown) but the block voting of Hispanics at 70% dem, blacks 90% . Ever state that has gone from Red to purple to blue is because of Hispanic growth, We either figure that out or its over.

Just look at the states won by Trump in 2016,he won 32 states but only 4 have a population of Hispanic voters over 13%. Clinton by contrast won 28 states and only 5 had a Hispanic population of under 13%.


171 posted on 04/15/2021 1:44:25 AM PDT by TECTopcat (e)
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To: ScubaDiver

You may see me on the firing line, but not the camps.


172 posted on 04/15/2021 3:14:05 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

So you see inevitable misfortune: https://www.gotquestions.org/mene-mene-tekel-upharsin.html


173 posted on 04/15/2021 4:12:49 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: DoodleBob

you are saying 80MM+ Voters and humans are forever outsmarted and rendered helpless by 10,000 apparatchiks. Really?

I’m assuming that your reference to 80MM Voters are the ones who voted for President Trump. If so, then you my answer to your question is.....YES....ABSOLUTELY F*CKING YES

Although I’m not sure that the number is as high as 10,000, if you keep the term ‘outsmarted’. I’m thinking the number is far less. There is small handful of puppet masters and an army of puppets willing to do anything to please their masters.

Lets see...

NYT: Swiss Billionaire Behind ‘Hub Project’ to Influence U.S. Media, Politics; Bids for Tribune Co.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/04/13/nyt-swiss-billionaire-behind-hub-project-to-influence-u-s-media-politics-tribune/

NY Times Confirms: ‘Stand Down’ Order Given to Capitol Police During January 6th Riot ...... they let it happen

https://trendingpolitics.com/ny-times-confirms-stand-down-order-given-to-capitol-police-during-january-6th-riot-knab/

535 members of Congress.....I’ll say about 50, give or take, are worth a sh*t, the rest are corrupt to the core. Example, why would any of them object to us pulling out of Afghanistan, now or when President Trump was in office? Because they have something to gain.

9 Supreme Court Justices .... I’ll say that 2 shouldn’t even be there, period. The newest ones are already showing that they’re not the Conservative justices the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society said they were. On the best day, we have a 5-4 court, given that Roberts is actually on the Breyer, Kagan, Sotomayor side of the court.

Our Congress is filled with RINO, GOPe, Chamber of Commerce, Wall St puppets who care more about their stock portfolio’s than you and me.

We have lower federal courts that are packed with Clinton, Obama, Bush judges that don’t care and have been given the leeway to make broad judicial dictates(nationwide injunctions) that they don’t have the power to do.

We have a judge in Judge Sullivan, when the evidence is dropped on his head that Gen Flynn was innocent, still delayed the the dismissal to try and run out the clock until CornPop got in and he could sentence Gen Flynn

Then, of course, we have all the henchman and more than willing soldiers(Clinesmith, Wolf, McCabe, Page, Strzok, Baker, et al) who will do all that it takes to please their apparatchiks in the hopes that they’ll get invited to the next party. If you and I lie in a federal investigation it’s prison. For Clinesmith time served and not sure if he’s been disbarred yet.

Over 100 CEOs got on a Zoom meeting the other day to coordinate how to oppose any new Voter ID laws, states wanting to strengthen their respective voting laws and/or close loopholes to try and avoid what happened in the General Election last November and what happened in Georgia in January.

That same Georgia where the legislature let happen in January, the same exact thing that happened in November. That same Georgia that now has the Lt Gov, SOS, AG, and Republican leadership signing onto an Amicus Brief opposing any detailed examination of the ballots cast in November and January. That same Georgia that allegedly holds a hearing on the fraud that took place but, for some odd reason, doesn’t call Ruby, her daughter and their supervisor to testify about why they were running the same ballots through the same machine over and over again.

Courts in Nevada refusing to hear a case where investigators found over 40,000 voters who voted twice, in a state that President Trump lost by a little over 10,000 votes, IIRC.

I could go on but I don’t need to and I’m not aware of half the other things that others on FR are.


174 posted on 04/15/2021 4:54:55 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: qaz123; LS
Thank you. This is exactly my point. The leftists want to frighten normal people into thinking that Civil War is the ONLY response to 2020. It's not. In fact it's a downright stupid (not to mention illegal) response.

Indeed, Jan 6 has been conflated into a Trump-driven Insurrection attempt. Any subsequent "siege" will be put down faster than an unruly pit bull, and will not only have the backing of half of the country, but will castrate any attempt to deal with the situation through proper channels.

As for the Stork-like response this attitude often gets from CWII proponents...

...the answer is, lots of things. I mean, look at what Georgia did...and look at the disproportionate leftist hate that conjured up. If the "there really is no legal option" and "we will never have a clean election ever again" crowd were right, then the 2-min hate on Georgia would NOT have occurred.

But it did occur. And that occurrence is, yet again, the enemy effectively blinking. That overwrought response, is prima facie evidence that they are SCARED. Georgia is a sort of Doolittle Raid (ht LS).

The proper response to the Georgia pearl-clutching, is more and more Georgia-like actions. Make THEM sweat. Make THEM realize that the proper response to filth is cleanliness.

175 posted on 04/15/2021 5:37:36 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

The proper response to the Georgia pearl-clutching, is more and more Georgia-like actions. Make THEM sweat. Make THEM realize that the proper response to filth is cleanliness.


What happens if and most importantly, WHEN, the new Georgia law is overturned and tossed out? What do we/they do then?

Georgia isn’t a Doolittle Raid. General Doolittle and his crews had gigantic ballz and were willing to risk it all.

The Republican’s in the Georgia legislature couldn’t be further from that. They had a chance to do something and they didn’t. They’re nothing but a bunch of SEC Frat Boy’s, with a few tossed in from Georgia Southern and Valdosta State, nothing more. They’re some of the most corrupt people in the country. Completely controlled by developers, farmers, chicken plant/farm owners and, now, Hollywood.

That law gets tossed, they’re just going to shrug their shoulders, tell the people they tried and then keep collecting their money so they can buy a house on Oconnee, Lanier, Sea Island or move to Hilton Head.

And with the way they’re building down here, businesses running from the liberal hell holes they created up north, promising Georgians jobs that go to the liberals that move with their companies....just like what has and is happening in Texas, North Carolina, Nashville, Chattanooga, Greenville.....the state is shifting Blue, because liberals can’t just let people live their lives. They have to control everything.

I understand your thinking that this can be handled with a simple ‘push of the button on a screen’. The Left doesn’t play that game. Will it devolve into fighting in the street. I’d like to say I hope not, but it already has, ie....pretty much every major city in the country last year. Portland, Minneapolis and Brooklyn Center now.


176 posted on 04/15/2021 5:57:06 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: DoodleBob

Just yesterday a story came out about “brave” Botoxic in the face of the patriots (she cowered, had to be helped up, waddled to the elevator) and another story about how some DemoKKKrat congressman is dealing with “PTSD.”

These are MORE clear indicators that Patriot Day rattled these people to their core.

While I think they were going to move rapidly in any event, there is almost a franticness behind them, like the court packing, that if they don’t get it done now, they never will.


177 posted on 04/15/2021 6:12:36 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: neverbluffer
And what makes you think they wouldnt get rid of the filibuster to get the grand prize of the SC? Oh thats right, Joe Manchin wont stand for it. Yeah right.

Yup, right. That bill is mere virtue signalling by Dems who know it is NOT going anywhere.

178 posted on 04/15/2021 6:51:27 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Why Does Joe Biden Always Look Like He Is Smelling Something Bad?)
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To: for-q-clinton

2 words...

Election reform


179 posted on 04/15/2021 8:47:31 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: nutmeg

He’s dumber than bye-done!


180 posted on 04/15/2021 3:02:59 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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