i still say raise the number to 11... the RATS are already talking about doing it if they ever get back into power
Posted on 07/10/2018 8:58:26 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court, and President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to replace him, is the doomsday scenario liberals feared when Senate Republicans thwarted the appointment of Merrick Garland in 2016: The GOP’s brazen act of democratic sabotage will almost certainly deliver the high court to the far right for a generation. In the years ahead, the court will probably further erode reproductive rights, gay rights and voting rights, ushering in the darkest era in American history since the post-Reconstruction period.
Sounds hysterical, right? After all, Democrats will get their chance at reversing the court’s majority when they get back in power, as early as 2021. Except court appointments don’t work like elections. The remaining conservatives on the court are young — Clarence Thomas is the oldest at 70 — and Trump is insistent on naming young justices. It is possible that a two-term Democratic president could serve from 2021 to 2029 without being able to replace a single Republican-appointed justice.
That grim reality is leading many on the left to contemplate radical ideas, including an idea considered and discarded 80 years ago: court-packing. The idea of court-packing — adding extra justices to the Supreme Court in order to change its ideological makeup — causes most Americans to blanch. But if done right, it would actually offer a crucial avenue for safeguarding American democracy.
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“It is safe to assume they are contemplating worse than court-packing. Completely unhinged they are.”
Would they like to murder a few more Justices perhaps?
I doubt that. I see Pence in 2024 going 2 terms
Thanks for giving President Trump a good idea.
The FDR solution raise the court to 15 members and appoint 6.
Democrat plan to save democracy: pack the oligarchy - I mean court - with their own guys so that they can get back to overriding the constitution without needing to let the people have a say.
Court-packing is not all that difficult. A Constitutional amendment is not needed.
So...if the House and Senate both pass a bill setting the number of Supreme Court justices at, say, 20 - and if the president signs that bill - then presto! We now have 20 Supreme Court seats.
The President can then appoint 11 new justices. Pack away!
(Banana Republic stuff, to be sure. But you can bet that today’s Dem’s will do it if they get the chance.)
I think it may have been a warning regarding the Democratic Party Operations Manual.
Thank you for pointing that out. And you bet they’re not pointing out that critical distinction in the schools.
“A crucial avenue for safeguarding American democracy.“
America has way too much democracy right now. I don’t want it safeguarded, I want it reduced as much as possible and, if necessary, destroyed.
If they think they can do it, do they think Trump can’t do it? Trump should throw out a name of another judge every month, for SCOTUS #10, #11, #12, etc. Watch the Dems fall down with conniption fits.
If they think they can do it, do they think Trump can’t do it? Trump should throw out a name of another judge every month, for SCOTUS #10, #11, #12, etc. Watch the Dems fall down with conniption fits.
Possible, but highly unlikely.
First of all, it's tough to beat an incumbent president. Especially if that president has shown himself to be a sure and capable executive, and if that president is widely viewed as being responsible for a healthy economy. Trump already has both of those perceptions nailed down.
To take out an incumbent president, the opposing party also has to have a certain 'mo', or momentum. Voters have to have a palpable sense that the opposition party has the upper hand in the dynamics of the political arena. This can't be faked with polls and media propaganda. It has to be a real energy that permeates the atmosphere.
The third ingredient required to take out an incumbent president, is a star challenger. Think Reagan vs Carter, or Clinton vs Bush I.
The author is dreaming, if he thinks all of those necessary fundamentals will come together within a scant two years.
Gaydar activated
It will be if the Left takes over. Mob rule.
Democrat just want to devolve into triblism.
Their base is too stupid to recognize it and they would only think that such a statement is racially inspired.
They rely on complete ignorance, knee jerk emotion and many, many low IQ zombies.
Agreed!
IMHO, we need to start (again):
We don’t have a democracy, we are a constitutional republic. We were never a democracy...
Fudge packing is the driving force behind the court packing idea.
Karma FarlsIdiot, karma.
Was it not your favorite Idiot who said that ‘Elections have consequence’? STFU and move along, FarlsIdiot!
i still say raise the number to 11... the RATS are already talking about doing it if they ever get back into power
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