Posted on 10/16/2018 7:40:01 PM PDT by blam
Less than a month after the confirmation of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh entrenched a 5-4 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, leading law professors are urging Democrats to expand the size of all of the nation's federal courts and pack them with liberals.
Far-left Harvard professors Mark Tushnet and Laurence Tribe are lending their support to the so-called "1.20.21 Project," which was launched by political science professor Aaron Belkin on Wednesday to counter "Republican obstruction, theft and procedural abuse" of the federal judiciary.
That rhetoric reflects the professors' apparent surprise after Democrats lost the 2016 presidential election, which they had hoped would allow the party to continue appointing liberal judges and justices. In 2016, when Hillary Clinton was leading in all major polls in her bid for the presidency, Tushnet definitively declared in a blog post that conservatives were the "losers in the culture wars."
He wrote that liberal judges who "no longer have to be worried about reversal by the Supreme Court" could be useful in marginalizing those Republican "losers," whom he compared to the defeated Japanese in World War II or the Confederacy in the Civil War.
The heated language also highlights what liberals have characterized as the unfair treatment of President Obama's failed nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland. In 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, refused to hold a hearing or vote on Garland, saying a lame-duck president shouldn't be able to appoint a justice in an election year. Garland didn't have enough support in the GOP-held Senate to win confirmation.
At Kavanaugh's ceremonial swearing-in ceremony earlier this month, President Trump led a standing ovation for McConnell, whom he called a "great" leader who has done an "incredible job for the American people."
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I say we add 3 more justices... before January.
Just imagine how upset they would be if we said the same thing.
Heh.
They pack the court.
We’ll pack heat.
Because it worked so well when FDR did it
Fudge is the only thing they’re going to pack
That is the same mindset that motivated Dingy Harry to drop the 60 vote rule: the mistaken belief that only they can benefit from a political move.
OK, since we have the power right now, let POTUS & the patriots beat them to it, and pack the SC ourselves!
Imagine their screams!
Round up each of these tyrants and try them for treason
Esp that POS Tribe
How about we beat them to the punch for a change? Drop the filibuster and pack the Court.
Trump was elected with a mandate to defund Planned Parenthood and overturn Roe v. Wade.
“Republican obstruction, theft and procedural abuse” of the federal judiciary”
Projectionists
The RATs are making all this noise, but just how to they think with the likely margins of their ilk in the Congress should they manage to “retake” either or both Houses, do they think that they could get this accomplished? If they have a way to do it with a Republican President I’d like to see it.
Not good enough. They’d just add 7 if they could. A better solution is to pass a law forbidding court packing. A Constitutional Amendment would be better, but we don’t have the votes and it would take a long time.
If their god, FDR, could not pack the Court, what makes them think they do so?
Four, to avoid tied votes.
Try this out:
“In their 2017 paper “How to Lose a Constitutional Democracy,” UChicago law professors Aziz Huq and Tom Ginsburg concur, writing, “The presidential effort to pack the Supreme Court represents a low point for the rule of law in the United States, and is a technique that has been followed by modern-day illiberal democrats.”
It’s not hard to see why political scientists taking a more international view would see court-packing as, on its face, a threat to democratic institutions. As Huq and Ginsburg note, court-packing is a frequently used tool in the toolkit of would-be authoritarians.”
But note that it is the PRESIDENT who gets to “pack” the Court, not the Congress.
The RATs are smoking some really good weed on this issue.
Or expand all these circuit courts to add 2 more justices, all conservative.
I went to law school cause I couldn’t do math.
“Far-left Harvard professors”
Need “Far-left” even be said?
Just wait for the Leftist meltdown when President Trump gets to appoint replacements for some of the Gang of Four.
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