Posted on 01/27/2021 11:27:31 AM PST by Red Badger
Biden Launches Commission On Supreme Court Reform
Joe Biden has quietly launched a commission on “reforming” the Supreme Court, potentially dropping a partisan bomb onto Congress at the same time he’s pleading for “unity and healing.” Politico reports that it will supposedly be bipartisan, but there’s only party demanding changes to the top court’s structure.
Republicans will fight tooth and nail to stop any such bill from passing. It might come down to a filibuster fight in which Joe Manchin might finally have to decide whether he’s going to represent West Virginia or Chuck Schumer. This kind of radical overreach will definitely get voters’ attention in the midterms.
The commission will be housed under the purview of the White House Counsel’s office and filled out with the behind-the-scenes help of the Biden campaign’s lawyer Bob Bauer. Its specific mandate is still being decided. But, in a signal that the commission is indeed moving ahead, some members have already been selected, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions.
Among those who will be on the commission are Cristina Rodríguez, a professor at Yale Law School and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Obama Department of Justice, who has been tapped to co-chair the commission. Caroline Fredrickson, the former president of the American Constitution Society, and Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush Department of Justice, will also serve on the commission, those familiar with discussions said.
Fredrickson has hinted that she is intellectually supportive of ideas like court expansion. In 2019, she said in an interview with Eric Lesh, the executive director of the LGBT Bar Association and Foundation of Greater New York: “I often point out to people who aren’t lawyers that the Supreme Court is not defined as ‘nine person body’ in the Constitution.”
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/biden-supreme-court-reform-463126
Ratburger and Kemp did nothing to fix the issues from the general.
Now, all of a sudden, they think voting by mail should be eliminated and absentee voting needs to be tightened.
Cocaine Mitch didn’t help the cause when he refused to go along with the 2000 stimulus.
Kind of looks like they don’t mind the outcome.
They’re trying to get an armed response out of Americans. They’re going to keep pushing until they find the right button.
...you stole my thunder....! Yeah, right is.....right!! I cannot see any members of the Stupid Party fighting for much of anything these days.... I have to recall the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on last weekend’s Life, Liberty and Levin....”Most people don’t want freedom; they want to be taken care of...” The Stupid Party is way gone for fighting for freedom.....
Absent an Article V convention, Scotus issues edicts that only future courts can (rarely) overturn.
We used to be self-governing.
It is lost past time to do an end run around our masters.
Article V COS.
Yeah, the pubbies will fight tooth and nail to stop such a bill, just like the time they . . . uh . . . well you know the thing.
The thing about never regarding a hill worth fighting for is that you eventually run out of hills.
We’ve run out of hills.
The republic is over. Article V to restore the republic.
And putting so many republicans in really helped us....
If words do not stop them now, what good will more words do?
Commissions are where stuff goes to die in the swamp. If the Dems really intended on packing the courts this is the last move they would be making.
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