Oh sure, he'll replace O'Connor and Rehnquist, but he technically *could* shrink the SCOTUS for a year or two when a liberal retires.
It's just an *option* mind you, but a Conservative Majority on SCOTUS can be accomplished in more than one way...in fact, in a way that bypasses the Senate entirely by simply shrinking the Court for a couple of years.
no he names bork and let them fillibuster and then find someone more conservative and let them fillibuster and then even more conservative than that and let them fillibuster (oh in an ideal world)
"a Conservative Majority on SCOTUS can be accomplished in more than one way...in fact, in a way that bypasses the Senate entirely by simply shrinking the Court for a couple of years."
[salivating at the idea]
Shrink the Court AND shrink the Court's liberals?
[wipes drool from chin]
What a great idea. As long as we can get the next one to resign without the Sandy "f-you clause," you know, the one that says "I'll serve until you replace me." That battleaxe...I hope she lives to 200 and hates every minute of being out of power.
I will jump for joy the day Ginsburg retires.
He needs to appoint at least one, maybe 2 women. A female Chief Justice would we a good idea, but take them where we can get them, Bush has been very good at appointing "minorities" to high positions, expect the trend to continue. Getting Ginsberg out of there and replacing her with a strong conservative would be too good to be true.
I also think that there is no way Ginsberg would go to let a conservative be appointed unless she had to go.
LOL, it's a clever idea. these Justices will usually resign after a new nominee is confirmed, so either that or we'll have to deal with a dead body in the court room :(.
Counting our chickens before they are hatched, ey? Having gotten gains so many terms in a row, it may come as a suprise but we can lose seats in 2006. This is especially true if the war doesnt show improvement and the GOP gets bad press for overreaching on SCOTUS debate.
I could just see ol T. Kennedy and ol hair tranplant pledgerizer puke face!!!
Very interesting about creating a more conservative court for a short while. But since stare decisis only applies to liberal decisions, a temporary conservative court will change little.
We need three young conservatives and no stealth leftist if Bush gets three appointments. Imagine if G.H.W. Bush had appointed someone other than Souter?
The Supreme Court and the Constitution (commentary from 1936)
What makes you think we're going to pick up seats om 2006? Pubs aren't acting like they want it that badly. They need to not get too tricky right now. Just Govern, dammit.