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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almost strange to see this article after I just posted yesterday, about how punative the Northern elites were to the South during/post Civil War that has carried on through today, but here we are.
So a question:
just how ‘political’ are professors whose institutions accept federal funding allowed to be? Alternately, if an institution claims federal tax-exempt status, how ‘political’ are professors allowed to be before the institution loses its tax-exempt status? And does the below caption qualify as hate speech?
“marginalizing those Republican “losers,” whom he compared to the defeated Japanese in World War II or the Confederacy in the Civil War”
The reason we're winning is because democrats are sleazy little losers... who cheat. Why imitate them?
Valid points.
President Trump should tweet out their argument, a link to their site, and the words “Great Idea! I have lots of fantastic people to nominate!” and watch the court packing movement did a quick death.
The court-packing idea is just the dumbest of dumb ideas, and it’s a sad commentary on the idiocy of the left’s “Harvard intelligentsia” that they can’t see the obvious inherent flaws in the plan. To think that court-packing is a good idea is to assume that, once your side does it, the other side will never be in a position to retaliate. And how naive and dumb is that? As much as I’d love it if the Dems never again controlled the presidency and congress, anyone with any sense of history knows that there are pendulum swings and it’s unrealistic to think that your side will never be shut out of power. It’s happened many times before and it will likely happen again.
I dont like the idea of only 9 SC justices. There should be 25 and they should all be nominated and confirmed in the next 2 years.
#19. You raise a good technical point about “Far-Left Harvard professors”.
I read the whole list of those who opposed Judge Kavanaugh’s appointment and could only find a handful who could be considered “communists/Marxists” in the traditional sense.
Lacking were key Communist Party elderly lawyers, the major leaders of the CPUSA’s old front, the National Lawyers Guild, the CP’s very important legal front, the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC), and the NLG’s creation, the assorted Marxists/communists/progressives “Center for Constitutional Rights”.
This NY Times opinion piece/ad or whatever, features newer liberals/leftists whose names have not appeared in most radical papers or at events. They are a new “wave” or “generation” of law students/lawyers who were taught by the old CPUSA lawyers (Emerson, Kinoy, Siegle, Kunstler, Fagan, and their as yet unidentified colleagues, Countryman, Askins, those from the Marxist National Conference of Black Lawyers, and a few from La Raza).
This makes them more dangerous since you cannot legally identify them as members of the CPUSA or any other communist/Marxist party-organization unless they have been publicly identified as such, or their names have appeared with such affiliations in radical publications/books, etc.
Many of them as just damned fool liberals who think it is cool to subvert, undermine and destroy the Constitution and our internal security/criminal organizations laws. THAT IS WHERE THE DANGER LIES. This new group is young, lean and hungry, just like “Cassius” at Caesar’s back.
They have no concept or knowledge of how communism/Marxism and the fake “progressivism” works or their ultimate goals of subverting America into a hardcore Marxist country (Obama tried, believe me, his “fundamental transformation of American” wasn’t about defending the Constitution, as Eric Holder, his far-left hitman just let out of the bag when he said about conservatives/Republicans, “If they go low, you kick them”. Typical red street thug in a suit.
Oh, and he was the Attorney General of the United States despite being a black racist, reparationist and Marxist.
At least these no-so-stupid attorneys have given us a nice list with which to create a “Radical Lawyers Watch List” so when they pop up at some leftist affair, in some radical publication, or on TV, we will know who they are and can write blogs/letters/call in shows, etc. exposing them for who they really are, America’s enemies, knowingly or dupedily. Either way, they are still the enemy, and this new group with Tribe, Tushnet etc, are another perhaps far more dangerous group of far-left attorneys who are now going to get on another “Far-Left Dangerous Attorneys List” for all to see.
If any FReepers have good articles or sources of information about them, please post it here at FR for all to see, share, and spread around. Knowledge is one of our best defenses against this new wave of “mini-Marxists and red stooges”.
The number 1024 comes to mind for some reason . How about 1024 judges on the Court...appointed before Jan???
Democrats govern through judicial tyranny.
“Just wait for the Leftist meltdown when President Trump gets to appoint replacements for some of the Gang of Four.”
Ruth Buzzy was lookin’ “less than wonderful” at Kavanaugh’s Confirmation.
The Democrat Party is like a homicidal lover.
It says to America it strangles her, “If we can’t have you, nobody will.”
**** Merrick Garland! The boy is an anti-constitution retard! Now that he’s never going to be on the SCOTUS, he might has well apply for a job as a “fries guy” at a fast food joint.
Larry Tribe needs to stick to packing his buddy, Mark’s Tushnet.
When liberal Democrats lose the game, they change the rules so they win.
I look forward to President Trump picking RBG’s replacement with a GOP Senate. I think I’ll start stocking up on popcorn now.
Exactly.
No reason to imitate these losers when you are winning.
Ignoring this has no shot of happening even if the Democrats win, isn't this just strangely cocking coming from someone that got so burned by the 2016 results? What happens if Trump wins re-election in November 2020, are they going to kill themselves?
*cocky
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