Posted on 10/22/2020 8:45:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Lets see this one get passed!!
Go, Ted, go!
The constitutional amendment is as simple as can be: “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine justices.” Pass it with a two-thirds vote of the House and Senate, then get it ratified by 38 states, and our worries about court-packing will be over.
This could be accomplished in a week (assuming all state leg are in session). But it won’t
The things our Founding Fathers did not think to do because they never thought they had to. They never envisioned a country populated with petulant children.
That raises an interesting question, and frankly I have no idea what the answer would be.
Let’s presume Biden were to win and expand the court to 16 justices.
Then sometime a year or two later the 38th. state votes to ratify.
Does the Court immediately go back down to nine? Or are the additional justices grandfathered in? And if it does go back to nine who decides which seven justices get the heave-ho?
Interesting and I have no idea on any of it.
A two-thirds vote of the House? I don’t think so.
Please read how Jackson, the founding Democrat President stacked the Supreme Court, his appointment of Taney from Maryland who became the longest reigning chief Justice, and how the Democrat stacked Supreme Court led to the Dred Scott decision and the Civil War.
History is trying to repeat itself.
Never get 2/3’s in either the House and Senate.
D’s will line up against it.
GOOD!!! Let the American people SEE the DEMOCRATS vote AGAINST IT!
2/3 vote of the Hiouse and Seante is required.
yep, that is the point. Put them on record now so we can take back the house.
It shouldn’t take an amendment anymore the it should take a wall but unfortunately these times make us have to stay one step ahead of the left.
“They never envisioned a country populated with petulant children.”
Well said, FRiend!
With all of the objections to George III in the Decloaration of Independence, our Founding Fathers could scarcely imagine the satanic and murderous evil of the Demonicrat political party seeking to destroy the Constitution of the United States.
Not just that they “never thought they had to”, it’s that they never conceived the possibility - much like a “right to vehicular travel” wasn’t considered because they couldn’t imagine governments would punish people for traveling without permission to use certain vehicles.
It'll just put everybody on the record.
LOL!
For more than 150 years, the number of justices on the Supreme Court has been set, by law, at nine – “the Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices,” in the words of the Judiciary Act of 1969.
Not 1969, *1869*!
“Never get 2/3’s in either the House and Senate.
D’s will line up against it.”
Agreed. The only other way to pass the amendment would be through a Constitutional Convention, where the States would bypass Congress.
Yes, and they never thought to add anything about abortion or gay marriage either. To them. a woman killing her own child was simply unthinkable and so it's not in the Constitution. Likewise, a man wanting to stick his d*** in another man's a** was also unthinkable, so it's not in the Constitution either.
However, the Founding Fathers knew enough to know they didn't know it all, so they wrote that things not in the Constitution should be left to the states. I hope ACB will help put these awful things back to the states and, hopefully, someday, they can have their own Constitutional Amemndments banning them.
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