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Kunstler.com ^ | 10 Nov, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

[tumblindice]

Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, AKA as ‘FDR’s court-packing plan’
The provisions of the bill adhered to four central principles:

-allowing the President to appoint one new, younger judge for each federal judge with 10 years service who did not retire or resign within six months after reaching the age of 70 years;
-limitations upon the number of judges the President could appoint: no more than six Supreme Court justices, and no more than two on any lower federal court, with a maximum allocation between the two of 50 new judges just after the bill is passed into law;
-that lower-level judges be able to float, roving to district courts with exceptionally busy or backlogged dockets; and
-lower courts be administered by the Supreme Court through newly created “proctors”.

If democrats tried to do something similar, create a judicial branch made up of rubber-stamping democrat federal district court judges, they may as well call it the ‘American Civil War 2 bill’

[Vaduz]

“We live in the dumbest of times and Democrats are truly led by the dumbest of all of us.” —Sean Davis, The Federalist.

That needs to be a billboard sign to bring the left back to reality.

[Migraine]

Well, we three are just oozing with intellect, aren’t we?

[tumblindice]

edit: create a judicial branch *dominated* by rubber-stamping democrat federal district court judges

Seriously, if you think the lower federal judiciary is bad now, if democrats manage to nuke the filibuster in the future to pack the courts, we will be looking at the movie Idiocracy and its Guitar Army as one branch of government.

[Dr. Franklin]

Pubs need to kill the filibuster now as Dems have already promised to eliminate it and pack the courts once they get back in power. Killing it now and pushing through the MAGA agenda is essential. No time to waste.

At a minimum, the filibuster must restore a requirement of Senators actually debating the law on the floor of the Senate. What we have at present is just a kind of liberum veto, not a filibuster. The minority party can't be given a veto over the federal budget. Elections have consequences and protecting democracy and all that.

[FormerFRLurker]

They can voter through mail in in the town they grew up in.

I thought we were all against voting through mail?

[metmom]

Or absentee ballots.

So what’s a college student to do?

How do they get to exercise their right to vote while they’re away from home? They certainly shouldn’t be voting where they’re simply attending college and have no permanent residency. We’ve had enough of that crap help ruin NH.