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Liberal Professors Launch Campaign To Pack Supreme Court After Kavanaugh Confirmation
Fox News ^ | 10-16-2018 | Gregg Re

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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KEYWORDS: 12021project; braking; courtpacking; democrats; kavanaugh; laurencetribe; liberals; marktushnet; scotus; scotuspacking; supremecourt; thugs
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Excellent. Thanks.


41 posted on 10/17/2018 1:05:39 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: hal ogen

I like the idea of 3.5 million Supreme Court Justices.

Everyone can be one.


42 posted on 10/17/2018 1:45:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: blam

Time to pack the universities with conservative professors.


43 posted on 10/17/2018 2:01:41 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: P-Marlowe

44 posted on 10/17/2018 2:57:21 AM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: blam
It wasn't enough for the Left that they murdered Justice Scalia. Now they want to pack the court as FDR tried to do (in clear defiance of the Constitution).





45 posted on 10/17/2018 3:11:15 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: P-Marlowe

Yep - after 8 years of President Trump, the courts will be pretty well “jam packed”....


46 posted on 10/17/2018 3:32:11 AM PDT by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...)
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To: blam

Larry Tribe is the biggest hurtass in DC. He is rigid ever since Gore got beat, having been promised/assured the next SCOTUS slot, which went to Roberts-Alito (if you’ll remember that bizarre 2005 situation where Roberts was originally O’Connor’s replacement, then Rehnquist up and died).


47 posted on 10/17/2018 3:52:08 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: P-Marlowe

Forget January....do it right now.


48 posted on 10/17/2018 4:04:02 AM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: blam

How about we take all the signees of this so-called project, delete their licenses to practice law, and strip all of them of their US citizenship.


49 posted on 10/17/2018 4:14:13 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: hal ogen
It needs to be J= 2n - 1 where n={6, 7, 8, 9, 10}
50 posted on 10/17/2018 4:22:36 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Trump20162020
"What happens if Trump wins re-election in November 2020, are they going to kill themselves?"


51 posted on 10/17/2018 4:29:02 AM PDT by EEGator
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How typical of Stalinists. If you can’t win properly and legally, move the goal posts.


52 posted on 10/17/2018 5:45:54 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: blam

I am 100% convinced they will do this the moment they are able.


53 posted on 10/17/2018 5:53:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: blam

Why is this news? I’m wondering why Fox gives so much air time to kooks. I’m tired of tuning in Fox and getting diluged by lengthy, lefty sound bites. This is an example. OF COURSE LEFTY PROFESSORS would agree to impeach Trump. Might as well have a headline about the sun going down at sunset, perhaps causing extreme darkness. Flashlight suggested for safety. (Gheeesh!)


54 posted on 10/17/2018 6:17:46 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: Sa-teef

No reason to imitate those losers under any circumstances...


55 posted on 10/17/2018 6:19:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats protect MS-13, Open Borders and Criminals. Our side wants JOBS NOT MOBS....)
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