Posted on 07/19/2022 7:51:36 AM PDT by mikelets456
A group of House Democrats called for legislation on Monday that would add four seats to the Supreme Court, lamenting a "ultra right-wing" branch that just overturned the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion rights.
The eight lawmakers cited recent Supreme Court decisions that rolled back Miranda rights, threw out a New York gun control law and allowed religion to surface in schools - as well as the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health decision that overturned the right to abortion in Roe - in saying there was a need to add new justices to the court.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), the lead sponsor of the 2021 Judiciary Act, called the current makeup "a Supreme Court at crisis with itself and with our democracy" where "basic freedoms are under assault" from the 6-3 conservative supermajority on the bench.
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The size of SCOTUS needs to be established in the Constitution...amend Article III to set it at nine.
We can do the same in 2025.
Not only that, heard a clip from mush mouth commie-la “fweedumb” hawiss yesterday pushing for d.c. or Puerto Rico statehood so they could have 2 more senators. What if those two ended up consevative? Not much chance of that but......
“Let the class idiot make the suggestion - that way when he is laughed out on his stupid ass, we have clean hands.”
~liberals, probably
Please don’t insult insects.
It will just lead to a justice race, a la arms race. Eventually there will be more Supremes than Senators.
This kind of game just shows how contemptuous the Democrats are with our form of government, and that includes the democratic process, like elections. Are we really supposed to believe they are not willing to tamper with the electoral process?
Change the term for the new guys from life to two years and maybe I’d be on board with this. Almost certainly not, but maybe. Otherwise .... nope.
Yes, that is what I was thinking.
Yup.🤔
It’ll never pass the Senate.
We will see them trying to cram the most execrable bills between now and Jan 3.
Well since he can’t count and doesn’t believe in gravity he probably thinks the Supreme Court has five people like a basketball team so ads we’re back where we started again. Perfect
They got played by McConnell. Deal with it.
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