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Liberals Eye Far-Reaching Goal: Delegitimizing Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority
New York Times ^ | October 7, 2018 | CHARLIE SAVAGE

Posted on 10/07/2018 2:35:12 PM PDT by Hadean

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To: Hadean

There is a solution for this. Trump immediately should nominate two additional Constitutionalists to increase the SC to 11 Justices. You know that’s what Dems will do should they (God forbid) ever regain power.


21 posted on 10/07/2018 3:10:45 PM PDT by confederatecarpetbag
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To: Hadean

The crybabies want to undo the Trump legacy? Good luck with it.

They couldn’t even keep Gorsuch and Kavanaugh off the Court.

Morons.


22 posted on 10/07/2018 3:12:33 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Hadean

Just wait and till Trump gets two or three more picks. It’s really no different than what everybody else said win the Liberals were in the majority. This seems to be a classic he said she said, very relative to whoever is in power, whoever is out of power.


23 posted on 10/07/2018 3:13:53 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Hadean
. . . and they will succeed, too - as long as the propaganda organs are united behind them.

But their hold on them is in fact illegitimate. It hinges on the homogenizing effect of the Associated Press in particular (and wire services generally).

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
Do MSM journalists “meet together” much? The AP “wire” is a continuous virtual meeting of all major US journalists - which hasn’t ever ended since its start before the Civil War. MSM journalists claim objectivity - and attack anyone who disagrees with them as “not objective, not a journalist.” Which notionally might seem to be OK - but journalists are negative towards society and naive towards government. And they certainly know that they are negative towards society - they learned that in journalism school (If it bleeds, it leads).

Negativity is not objectivity to anyone but a cynic. The wire services in general, but the AP in particular, must be sued into oblivion. When they were formed, their mission of economically disseminating the news made them “too big to fail.” In the 21th Century, conserving telegraphy bandwidth is worth bupkis. They are standing violations of the Sherman AntiTrust Act.


24 posted on 10/07/2018 3:19:16 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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To: Hadean

Wow, just lay it all out there, NY Slimes! Man!


25 posted on 10/07/2018 3:22:17 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Hadean

All the more reason to legally go after Kavenaugh’s accusers and the press. The attacks they unleashed was out and out slander. He has a case. He cannot let it slide while on the bench.


26 posted on 10/07/2018 3:23:54 PM PDT by Bommer (Help out 2ndDivisionVet and his wife - https://www.gofundme.com/married-recent-amputee)
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27 posted on 10/07/2018 3:24:36 PM PDT by timestax
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28 posted on 10/07/2018 3:29:59 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Hadean
i'll say it again, raise the court to 11 now so that RATS can't raise it enough to overcome our position
29 posted on 10/07/2018 3:36:09 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Hadean; antidemoncrat
Some have gone as far as proposing — if Democrats were to retake control of Congress and the White House in 2020 or after — expanding the number of justices on the court to pack it with liberals

Unbelievable that they would even suggest this.

A previous commenter had it right... once the shooting starts it will be hard to stop it. And if anything will get it started, it would be that.
30 posted on 10/07/2018 3:41:01 PM PDT by E Pluribus Bellum
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To: Hadean

Liberals are in the midst of being delegitimized.


31 posted on 10/07/2018 3:46:06 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Hadean

Some have gone as far as proposing — if Democrats were to retake control of Congress and the White House in 2020 or after — expanding the number of justices on the court to pack it with liberals or trying to impeach, remove and replace Justice Kavanaugh.


32 posted on 10/07/2018 3:46:51 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: confederatecarpetbag

An amendment defining the size of the COURT is needed.


33 posted on 10/07/2018 3:48:23 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Hadean
Some have gone as far as proposing — if Democrats were to retake control of Congress and the White House in 2020 or after — expanding the number of justices on the court to pack it with liberals

The US Constitution established the Supreme Court and authorized the Congress to decide the number of justices.

The Judiciary Act of 1789 set the number at 6.

In 1807, Congress increased it to 7.

In 1837, the number was increased to 9.

In 1863, the number rose to its highest point, 10.

In 1866, Congress passed the Judicial Circuits Act, which shrank the number to 7.

In 1869, Congress raised the number to 9, where it has stood ever since.

or trying to impeach, remove and replace Justice Kavanaugh.

They are going to need a two thirds majority in the US Senate (67 seats) to impeach Kavanaugh, something that will not happen in the foreseeable future. In fact I can say with some confidence that the Democrats will never get 67 seats in the US Senate for the next 50 years at least, given that there are by far more red states than blue states.

34 posted on 10/07/2018 3:50:06 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Hadean

This is why you cannot compromise with them.


35 posted on 10/07/2018 3:58:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Hadean

The butt-hurt is strong with them.


36 posted on 10/07/2018 3:59:56 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: SoFloFreeper

And they’re doing it to themselves.


37 posted on 10/07/2018 3:59:57 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: Hadean

The radicals are trying to delegitimize the US government. They had better pray they don’t succeed.


38 posted on 10/07/2018 4:06:10 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Hadean

The savagery of this latest Democrat riot is nothing compared to what they’re going to do when Trump appoints and the Republicans confirm Ginsberg’s successor.


39 posted on 10/07/2018 4:11:07 PM PDT by Savage Beast (A fool is more dangerous than a scoundrel. Fools are the tools of the scoundrels.)
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To: Hadean
What's really hilarious is that Trump continues to succeed, just as he did in the 2016 primaries, step by measured step, with only continuous soaring successes coming one after another as far as the eye can see into the future!

The Democrats are so funny when they get discombobulated. It's like watching a Three Stooges food fight!

40 posted on 10/07/2018 4:17:02 PM PDT by Savage Beast (A fool is more dangerous than a scoundrel. Fools are the tools of the scoundrels.)
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