Posted on 10/09/2018 10:10:21 AM PDT by nikos1121
Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed, and he will serve as a justice on the supreme court for the rest of his life. This event assures rightwing dominance of the court for a generation – or so we are told. After all, at 53, he is not even the youngest conservative: Justice Neil Gorsuch is 51. The chief justice, who has been there for more than a decade, is only 63. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by contrast, is 85, and Justice Stephen Breyer is 80. We are in, it seems, for decades of misery for labor unions, voting rights, regulation of businesses and all the rest. Or are we? The logic behind this “lost for a generation” stuff is simple enough. There are nine seats on the supreme court. All of its members serve for life. The five-justice conservative majority is quite young and seems healthy. Given all that, Kavanaugh’s confirmation is the final nail in the coffin, isn’t it? The ray of hope, if there is one, lies in contradiction of the first of those premises. Nothing in the constitution fixes the number of supreme court seats at nine. The size of the court is set by legislation, and has varied over time. We started with six. We’ve gone as high as 10 (when Abraham Lincoln was president, and Congress worried about a reactionary supreme court invalidating his wartime measures). Only recently, Republicans held the court to eight members for a year in the wake of Antonin Scalia’s death. So, then, the next time the left has some political power, why not just expand the size of the supreme court and add another handful of justices? Make Brett Kavanaugh a gifted and energetic member of a 10-to-5 minority. Don’t get mad, in other words: get even.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The Guardian sounds more like The Whinean!
You know you’re right. Why should she stay on there now? They’ve patched her together, just to work. Poor thing should retire and enjoy life.
Do they have a Fourth of July in England?
that was such a good post from you I’m responding a second time...
They make Abbie Hoffman appear tame
If the Democrats were to try to increase the size of the Supreme Court, Trump could veto the bill, and it is unlikely they could override the veto. Of course they would want to law to take effect in 2021 so that Fauxcahontas or Kamala could be the one to choose the new justices.
No, they count the days in July from 1 to 3 and then from 5 to 32.
Absolutely
I did not
Link?
So, then, the next time the left has some political power, why not just expand the size of the supreme court and add another handful of justices?
Why stop there? Why not flying tribunals?
It will make sending anyone to camps a lot easier.
Isn’t The Guardian a British rag??
In other words, stack the court not by established procedures but by changing the law.
FDR tried it when progressives were winning and it didn’t work.
At best they’d get a law the sitting predident could not take advantage of, and then lose the presidency in the next election, due to their shenanigans - backfire.
Our side has high-velocity "cheating pellets"...
Leftist Approach to all failures:
Refuse to accept it.
Change the rules.
Kameltoe, The Whore That Roared?
Wait'll Willie's homemade sex video of Kameltoe polishing his bumper hitch surfaces...
I suspected as much.
Anyway, John Adams expected July 2nd to be celebrated as Independence Day, not the 4th.
Since the democrats have no shame, if they ever get in power again, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit to see them do it. After all, Obama certainly did his part by appointing many many extreme left federal judges. Trump will appoint conservative federal judges, and SC justices, but congressional conservatives are too honorable (relatively speaking) to expand the Court.
Could that not be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court. The republican owned Supreme Court :)
Fortunately for us Obama did not appoint as many as he could, (probably because he couldn’t find enough left wingers, and secondly, he figured HIllarly could do it, and lastly he was plain our a friggin lazy F...).
We’re seeing the golden age of Pericles my friends. It’s like we finally hav a real man in power.
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