Posted on 08/13/2019 9:23:24 AM PDT by jazusamo
Several high-profile Senate Democrats warned the Supreme Court in pointed terms this week that it could face a fundamental restructuring if justices do not take steps to "heal" the court in the near future.
The ominous and unusual warning was delivered as part of a brief filed Monday in a case related to a New York City gun law. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., referenced rulings by the court's conservative majority in claiming it is suffering from some sort of affliction which must be remedied.
"The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it," the brief said. "Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be 'restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.'"
The last part was quoting language from a Quinnipiac University poll, in which 51 percent favored such restructuring. In the same poll, 55 percent believed the Supreme Court was "motivated by politics" more than by the law.
Dramatic changes to the Supreme Court have been proposed by several Democrats vying for their party's 2020 presidential nomination, with "court-packing" being a common -- though highly controversial -- suggestion. Increasing the number of justices on the court would allow the president to shift the balance on the bench by loading up justices of his or her preference.
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Because mob rule always works so well..../s
SCOTUS to hear biggest gun rights cases since 2010
https://youtu.be/6z18oOXxjFs
(New York State Rifle & Pistol Association is suing the City of New York.)
Messing with the Supreme Court without amending the Constitution is one of those things the militia aught to be ready, willing, and able to halt. I wonder how many people here on FR recanted their Oath?
Heal or Heel.
Your choice.
Democrats were telling the Supreme Court they need to heel NOT heal. Then the Court must learn to 'sit' and... roll over.
Obviously, these DUMBO-CRATS never learned much in High School Civics.....
The simplicity of ‘Separate but Equal’ branches seems to elude their marijuana-altered minds....
.....(that would be assuming they were educated in the United States of America and have some faint concept of what their oath to uphold the US Constitution actually means)
Beyond the freaking pale, even for RATS. If anything requires “healing” it’s them. And they are still blood-spitting mad about Citizen’s United.
This is why liberals must never be given power. It only flows one way with them.
55 percent believed the Supreme Court was “motivated by politics” more than by the law.
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Yes, people realize that the Dems have loaded the Supreme Court with Judicial Activists that make law, not interpret law according to the Constitution.
The Dems/Socialists may truly think the American Public is on their side, simply because the Dems control the MSM and the narrative.
The Dems cannot face that 2016 was the public being red pilled, and realized that they have been lied to for so many years.
Ruth Buzzard ACLU is not long for this mortal coil
Nothing short of Totalitarianism is good enough for them.
More like a “Offer they can’t refuse”
Not as many as you think, alas. The military and police will do whatever they’re told, and if the left is in charge, they’ll be on that side.
“Not as many as you think, alas. The military and police will do whatever they’re told, and if the left is in charge, they’ll be on that side.”
I know many from both, so you and I will just have to disagree.
I think it is strange that when future decisions by the Supreme Court are discussed, it is always in terms of how 2 or 3 of the Republican appointed justices will vote. No one ever discusses how the Democrat appointed justices will vote, because they were/are political picks, not legal picks.
Rule the way we want, or face restructuring.
“How much did the Quinnipiac poll have hilLIARy winning buy?”
I don’t actually know, but the answer is probably 150,000,000 to one.
Just imagine democrat and propaganda press reaction if republican congressmen said such a thing when the court was stacked hard liberal.
An Amish Farmer walking through his field notices a man drinking from his pond with his hand.
The Amish Farmer shouts: "Trinken Sie nicht das Wasser, die Kühe und die Schweine haben hineingeschissen!"
Which means: "Don't drink the water, the cows and pigs have shit in it!
The man shouts back: "I'm a Muslim, I don't understand your gibberish.
Speak English, Infidel!"
The Amish Farmer shouts back in English: "Use both hands, you'll get more water!"
Last time I checked Judicial was a separate branch of government - a CO-EQUAL branch to the Executive and Legislative. Power hungry Democrats in Congress fantasize that only THEY have all the power. The Constitution proves them wrong!
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