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
No, but it was framed to have a balance of powers. Not a dictatorship.
When it comes to social change, courts are the preferred approach.
1. It sounds fair when “a court decides” in favor of some sympathetic plaintiff.
2. Court rulings are filled with big words and sound smart.
3. There’s no appeal, ever.
4. Even if the ruling is eventually reversed, society will have “moved on” by the time that happens.
Yeah right!
Biden seems intent on shredding the Constitution, the social contract and the economy of the US.
Biden is clearly a domestic enemy intent on doing grave harm to our nation.
IMPEACH!
Trump can swear in his entire voting base as members in 2024. 75,000,000 Supreme Court Votes baby!
Why not?
DC and PR statehood and packing the courts all in week one. Does Mitch even know what hit him? Is he still power sharing and impeaching the last President, sheesh. They are eating his lunch.
With rigged elections now accomplished and unchallenged, the Senate, House, and Presidency are permanently Communist now. The only branch of government left unconquered is SCOTUS. Packing the court solves that. Then, they turn their attention to the less important State governments.
Supreme Court REFORM.
Nice.
...but didn’t Lin Wood say that the Georgia elections didn’t matter?
I don’t know what Joe Manchin would be worried about. After this election, it’s been shown that Democrats will be elected in perpetuity. Look at the Obamacare vote - there were no repercussions. There might have been a blip in Democrat elections but they came roaring back by controlling all of the federal government. Pretty good for a party that’s despised by more than half the country.
Joe Biden is a figurehead. He’s a shell of what he used to be. You could refer to Biden Administration. Or Biden’s handlers.
We need ZERO Ivy leaguers in government
............... Mitch is one of them!........................
“I often point out to people who aren’t lawyers that the Supreme Court is not defined as ‘nine person body’ in the Constitution.”
I agree. Probably need to start referring to them as the Biden Cabal.
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