Posted on 03/18/2019 1:16:07 PM PDT by caww
Eh, why not? ...Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand told POLITICO they would not rule out expanding the Supreme Court if elected president... But what if the current President plays that game first?
So why wait on this terrible idea? Let’s do it now. Trump should announce that he has nominated 6 justices to the Supreme Court to expand it to 15 seats. With a 53-seat majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell could get them all confirmed by the end of the summer at the latest....After all, the best defense is a good offense, right? Thanks to several Democrats who ought to know better, it’s now being seen as a legitimate move.
If Trump tries it, Congress would move heaven and earth to block him from succeeding at his court-packing plan, and that would be a bipartisan effort...but this would generation an outrage of an order of multitude higher. Legislation to limit the Supreme Court to nine seats might even pass on unanimous votes, or at least far more than would be needed for a veto override.
That assumes that Trump would veto such a bill. He’d get exactly what he wants — a way to make sure that the current composition of the court endures, plus a strengthening of an institutional norm as his legacy. At the very least, it would expose his potential 2020 challengers as the idiots and blowhards they are for floating this idea in the first place, and that is in itself priceless
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Why post this nonsense?
Not all laws passed by Congress are Constitutional
So if the law setting the number of USSC seats is reviewed and found to be flawed, what would the remedy then be?
Trump should discuss this option.
The law fixing the number of Justices at 10 could be a better law.
TWB
Collins, Murkowski, and five or six other RINO’s will veto this idea. It won’t pass.
Just forget about it and move on.
It’s not nonsense if you pay attention to what the Demorats are planning.
Do your homework
Yes, that’s my understanding.
It is nonsense since the number is set to nine by law.
Well...if he doesn’t will the Demorats if they ever again gain power? Very likely they will since they’re already discussing it.
Just the senate decides. There’s what? 53 Rs?
“Just the senate decides. There’s what? 53 Rs?”
Did you just make that up?
That Pandora’s box will assuredly be opened wide should the Social Democrats take the Senate and the Presidency, ever.
Does the house vote on a SC nomination?
Go hit the books old timer.
True, but SCOTUS got the message and stopped declaring the New Deal as un-Constitutional.
If Trump did it, he could claim progressive saint FDR tried it first.
We were never intended to be a government by judicial fiat, but the threat has always existed....However it’s no accident that the Constitution grants Congress the right to make the Supreme Court as large or small as it likes.
Just one plain dumb idea.
While only the Senate votes to confirm SCOTUS appointments, it would take majorities in both houses to change the law. Of course, the House would never approve, nor the Senate likely. Now if the Dems get the Presidency and both houses of Congress, they’d do it in a heartbeat. Why? Because their thoughts and policies and ideas are right and we are despicable pond scum—in their minds.
If a communist wins in 2020, they are going to do it. If Trump were to goad them all into voting against doing that now, then they wouldn’t be able to justify it later.
The Demorats are viewing that the Supreme’s conservatives stand in the way of their agenda. ..so enlarging the court is their way of balancing what they see as stagnating anything they want to do.
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