Posted on 04/17/2021 4:14:16 PM PDT by Starman417
During the Presidential campaign Joe Biden refused to say whether or not he supported packing of the Supreme Court which indicated to many of us that he would certainly support it. Now that Biden is President has control of both the House and Senate the only thing remaining in his way to turn America into a banana republic is the Supreme Court. Consequently democrats are now engaged in the deceitful drum beat of a broken Supreme Court.
Jerry Nadler (D-NY) once again puts his contempt for the intelligence of the American people on display with an idiotic argument that adding 4 new far left liberal Justices to the Court would "unpack" it. Ed Markey (D-MA) showed how 5 years can cause a liberal to do a 180. On the left is Markey in 2016 and on the right is the same Markey a couple of days ago.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg felt 9 Justices was the right number. Justice Stephen Breyer cautioned democrats against Court packing
“What I’m trying to do is to make those whose instincts may favor important structural change or other similar institutional changes such as forms of court packing to think long and hard before they embody those changes in law,” Breyer said.There is one and only one reason democrats want to seize the Supreme Court and that is to guarantee that they would be completely unfettered in the pursuit of the establishment of a totalitarian socialist state. There is a historical precedent for this and it is known as Venezuela.“I hope and expect that the court will retain its authority … which was hard won. But that authority, like the rule of law, depends on trust. A trust that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics. Structural alteration motivated by the perception of political influence can only feed that latter perception, further eroding that trust.”
In 1999 Hugo Chavez was elected President of Venezuela. Almost immediately he took steps to ravage the democracy.
When the late Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chavez first won the election in 1999, the country's Supreme Court was independent. But after it issued several rulings that went against him and his administration, Chavez packed the court by passing a law expanding its size from 20 to 32 justices in 2004. Chavez got to pick the 12 new judges -- effectively stacking it in his favor.Then Chavez ran for re-election in a farce of an election. When he won he took even more outrageous actions. With his Supreme Court in his pocket nothing could stop him:Canova, who compiled research on 45,000 rulings issued by Venezuela's high court since 2004, says the court never sided against Chavez's government after it was packed.
"Since 2004, I found that Chavez and the government never lost a case. Not a single one," he said.
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Or Sarajevo.
And we are seeing it unfolding right before our very eyes!
I think the Yugoslavia option is more likely. So yeah, Sarajevo
Except the Democrat side isn’t as well armed or trained.
This isn’t a race or tribal war, this will be a cultural one.
You want to be free or a subject?
That is the question.
I think of Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Northern Ireland etc.
The Feds are the Democrat side...
I am in favor of expanding the court, if it is expanded to 50 justices, one for every state. That seems fair does it not.
Packing the US Supreme Court is unethical. As the article noted, Justices Ginsberg and Breyer both understood that. But court packing is also perfectly legal, and constitutional.
So our best chance is the filibuster. Let’s hope that Senate “moderates” like West Virginia’s Manchin do the right thing when push comes to shove.
Only if the state picks up and can recall um
You know.. like the Senate was.
I was thinking more along the lines of Rwanda but with better tools at the rate we’re going.
No it ain’t
We’re ARMED TO THE TEETH
North Mexico is out fate if he doesn’t pack the court but leaves the border open and gets the Assistant Democrats to assist with amnesty.
2 years ago I would have said (Like Trump) “Never gonna happen!”
Today I see everyone wearing a mask and doing what CNN tells them to do, and I have to admit... yeah... that’s where we are headed.
At least the courts did hear Chavez cases more than what could be done here with our now yellow robe system.
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