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Senate Dems deliver stunning warning to Supreme Court: ‘Heal’ or face restructuring
Fox News ^ | 13 August 2019 | By Ronn Blitzer

Posted on 08/13/2019 12:19:10 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Hawaii; US: Illinois; US: New York; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; 3rdthread; bfacaho; blumenthal; democrats; dems; demsthreat; demthreat; dickdurbin; didyousearch; durbin; gillibrand; hirono; kirstengillibrand; maziehirono; richardblumenthal; richarddurbin; scotus; sheldonwhitehouse; supremecourt
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

as they crank up to frame Kavanaugh in the House !


21 posted on 08/13/2019 12:34:30 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

I think they really mean the court must begin to HEEL, (like a trained dog) or yield to the Democratic whims of the Senate, or else, whatever.

I’m sure Judge Roberts thought he already was ‘housebroken’.


22 posted on 08/13/2019 12:34:43 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

The influence of politics in a quote:

“”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.’”


23 posted on 08/13/2019 12:35:09 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Responsibility2nd

And another earlier— all comments very good to add to this thread. My post is # 56 —

Call to media FReeper activism— get this out to the talkers the podsters everybody. These 5 demo-rats should be called what they are, as they are doing it. THE NUREMBURG LAWS FIVE. Referencing the Nuremburg Laws which were “handed down” written, not by representatives of all the people but by the Socialist/Leftist Judges of Nuremburg— including special gun laws&seizure. Call these clown democrats what they are— threatening the “cleansing” of the court to be Legislating from the Bench UnConstitutional “Law givers”-

The NUREMBURG LAWS FIVE— true Socialists that is True Nazi’s minus the “National” part.

Thread: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3771418/posts


24 posted on 08/13/2019 12:35:15 PM PDT by John S Mosby
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

I think they misspelled ‘heal’ . . .

Somebody did.


25 posted on 08/13/2019 12:36:21 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: FenwickBabbitt

Dictatorship! The left has had it their way for years.. they got used to the GOP heeling.... and figure they just have to wear out the Trumpster..

Everything they want to do will hurt and destruct... but they are sure they can con their way back into that power position.


26 posted on 08/13/2019 12:38:17 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Its OK everyone...there is this in the pipeline soon as Repubs take back the house:

House Republican pushes medical examinations for Supreme Court justices © Greg Nash

A House Republican is pushing a batch of reforms for the Supreme Court that would require justices to undergo periodic medical examinations.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who chairs the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, introduced a bill on Tuesday that aims to make the federal courts more transparent.

Under Issa's Judiciary Reforms, Organization and Operational Modernization, or Room Act, federal justices and judges age 70 and younger would be required to undergo a medical evaluation every five years. Those older than 70 would have to be examined every two years, and those 81 and older would have to go every year.

On the Supreme Court, three of the eight sitting justices are 70 years of age or older. Justice Clarence Thomas is 70, Justice Stephen Breyer is 80 and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 85.

The legislation also takes steps toward increasing access to court proceedings. It would require the Supreme Court to release same-day audio of its arguments in the first year after the bill is enacted and then live stream audio of its arguments after two years.

Federal appeals courts, meanwhile, would be required to stream video of proceedings in real time "to the extent practicable."

Fix the Court, a group working to make the courts more transparent, said Issa’s proposal would help the public better understand how the courts work at a time when the nation’s attention is focused on the judiciary with new interest.

"As Rep. Issa's bill remind us, every federal appeals court has same-day audio, and every federal judge abides by an ethics code, so there's no reason the high court should remain exempt, and this bill would correct that quirk,” the group’s Executive Director Gabe Roth said in a statement.

Under Issa’s proposal, the justices would also have to give a timely, public notice and explanation for recusals and follow a code of conduct.

The bill also gives the president the power to appoint more than 50 additional judges to district courts across the country, including seven judges to the federal District Court for the Central District of California.

The House Judiciary Committee is expected to mark up the bill on Thursday, along with another piece of legislation introduced by Issa that adds five more judges to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and breaks it into four divisions -- Northern, Middle, Southern and Circuit.

27 posted on 08/13/2019 12:39:14 PM PDT by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

clever!


28 posted on 08/13/2019 12:40:01 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel; Da Coyote

The Dems are well-aware they are losing voters by the thousands every day. The old-hippie core is dying off, and their kids, except for the over-medicated extremists, are more into their video games than “activism.”

And many Dems, some whom I know well, are appalled at the sharp turn the party has taken to hard-left radical socialism and communism. They’re not ready to bail out of the clown car yet, but it’s close.

Ridiculous actions such as this “warning” only serve to illustrate how desperate they are.


29 posted on 08/13/2019 12:40:38 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
I can't imagine that even an ultra lib justice like Ginsberg takes too kindly to being threatened and nipped at by Senate fleas.
 
30 posted on 08/13/2019 12:41:36 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (In Italia i fascisti si dividono in due categorie : i fascisti e gli antifascisti. -- Ennio Flaiano)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
It will be challenged in the courts and left for the Supreme Court to decide.
31 posted on 08/13/2019 12:42:07 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: Da Coyote

So if they don’t get liberal rulings from the court, they will change the structure of the court.

So much for any semblance of judicial independence, or even equal status among the three branches of government.


32 posted on 08/13/2019 12:42:38 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

The court is insufficiently supportive of progress toward the New Soviet America.


33 posted on 08/13/2019 12:43:03 PM PDT by arthurus (dc-mn)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Dictacrats, not Democrats. They are an abomination and the antithesis of what the founding fathers envisioned. These Dictacrats are what they were taking measures against when they laid out the founding documents.


34 posted on 08/13/2019 12:45:25 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Remember the date: 19 April, 1775.


35 posted on 08/13/2019 12:45:34 PM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: tet68

Threatening the Supreme Court is not a good idea, they tend to take that badly.


36 posted on 08/13/2019 12:47:23 PM PDT by Bayan
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To: arthurus

Just my thoughts about how the Dems are treatng the Supreme Court.
Like a good dogy, get in heal.
Sit, roll over ,sign this, reject that.


37 posted on 08/13/2019 12:48:23 PM PDT by fproy2222 (MAGA)
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To: carriage_hill

“Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. ...”

That’s most of the leftwing nutbags in the Senate.

God help us if they seize the Senate in 2020.


38 posted on 08/13/2019 12:53:07 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Is one political party threatening an entire branch of government? If the political party doesn’t get all the rulings it wants?


39 posted on 08/13/2019 12:54:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: humblegunner

STFU

SNAFU

LOL

ROFL

LMAO

ROFLMAO

IIRC

DYK

WTH

WTF

BMA

On and on and on...................


40 posted on 08/13/2019 12:54:08 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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