Posted on 04/15/2021 5:54:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Constitution allows Congress to set the number of Supreme Court justices.
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS PLAN to unveil legislation expanding the size of the Supreme Court on Thursday, according to three congressional sources familiar with the closely held measure.
The bill would add four seats to the high court, bringing the total to 13 from the current nine. The bill is led by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, subcommittee Chair Hank Johnson, and first-term Rep. Mondaire Jones. In the Senate, the bill is being championed by Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
The number of justices on the court, which is set by Congress, has fluctuated throughout the course of the nation’s history, reaching as many as 10 seats before settling on nine in 1869. In 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz suggested that if Hillary Clinton were elected, the Republican Senate should keep Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat empty, effectively bringing the number of justices down to eight.
Republicans currently hold six seats, while Democrats hold just three. Republicans were able to solidify control of the court under former President Donald Trump, after first refusing to advance Merrick Garland’s nomination under former President Barack Obama and then confirming Justice Neil Gorsuch after Trump’s election. Then after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last September, Republicans threw out the procedures they had previously embraced and confirmed Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a matter of weeks.
After Trump’s nomination of Coney Barrett, then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced pressure to stop her confirmation by any means necessary. When those myriad options fell short and Coney Barrett was pushed through, the conversation turned to expanding the court.
“Not only do these extremist judges threaten more than a century of progressive achievements,” read a letter to Schumer by 20 New York elected officials, “they threaten to foreclose the possibility of any future progress under a Democratic administration.”
But after Democrats lost races they hoped to win in Maine, North Carolina, and Iowa, some Democratic strategists argued that the talk of court packing and ending the filibuster had inspired more Republicans to vote, and discussion of the move was shelved.
In April, President Joe Biden created a commission to study possible reforms to the court, including adding seats. This past October, Biden promised to create such a commission if elected, saying the judicial system was “getting out of whack,” but said, “It’s not about court packing.”
Game over if this passes.
Who says there’ll be a ‘next elexshun’?...............
PACK THE COURT WITH EXTREME MARXIST’S - To totally destroy the court, freedoms, rights and all good things about this nation. After the court is packed, the first thing they will do is bring the first gun case up before the Marxist Court of Destruction of the Republic to do away with personal ownership of guns. Then the Marxist’s Regime in Sodom on the Potomac will demand all people turn in their privately owned guns. OF COURSE, the ONLY people that will have to turn in their guns are those of us who properly purchased them at gun businesses and followed the law. The criminals, outlaws, gangsters of Chicago’s southside, drug cartels, mafia, thugs, murderers, rapists, who have their ILLEGALLY obtained guns, WILL POSSESS THEM. Oh, and of course, the Marxist’s Antifa Police that will soon be roaming our streets, breaking into our homes which we will no longer be able to defend and take out of it what they want to take. Obstruct them and be shot on sight because you are violating the Marxist’s Regime’s new made up on the spot by them, laws. Once the guns are gone, the final will of the people will be gone. There are not enough of us who have guns bought from second hand sources out here to defend the Republic. If you get caught with a gun or use one to defend your life or property, YOU will become the criminal, not the criminal. YOU, not the criminal will go to jail, probably for 10 or more years. Your property will be confiscated by the Regime as payment for your fines they will levy against us for defying their Marxist’s orders. THIS PACKING OF THE COURT IS NOT FOR DETERMINING TRUE LAW, IT IS FOR ONE THING ONLY, GIVING THEM TOTAL CONTROL OF THE LAW OF THE LAND, SO THAT MARXIST’S CAN MAKE UP THE RULES AS THEY GO AND TO HELL WITH THE CONSTITUTION!!! The Constitution as written will become worthless and the Bill of Rights will be burned on the steps of the Marxist’s Supreme Court. No conservative, Christian, or freedom loving thoughts need apply, because they will be denied!!! Welcome to the NEW Soviet Union of Amerika. It will make the old Russian one look like a Sunday School picnic. Your life will become expendable.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
If that happens, the supreme court will soon need an arena to seat the court, not a small court room.
Orwell stated it so perfectly. Once the left take full control they will purge us of the LGBQT community. No one in total control and power really wants them around anyway. The Ernst Rolm effect.
‘Had to scroll up to see if I was reading the NYTs.
What can I say... It’s hopeless and the shit heads win? Not yet.
No, a LIE. Just a LIE!
Useful Idiots are called that for a reason.................
This is too radical for most middle of the road Americans - it would insure a GOP retake of both houses of Congress and the Presidency in 2024 as there is NO way Biden will be up to running again.
The 'course' of the nation's history? The count has been the same for 152 years -- more than 60% of our nation's history.
If anything, Herr Grim, you agitprop weasel, the 9-member limit has been the nation's STANDARD number of Supreme Court Justices.
Genius McConnell. Shear genius, you and your GOP kind. Banish Trump and keep the Senate and we can go back to good old RINOism as we know and love it.
This is your legacy. Traitor.
It’s the same strategy that is being used at the boarder: flood the country with “their” voters, but in this case it’s flood the court.
Has anyone seen the $$ cost of his six-month “commission” on this ?
Honestly, if you're in a state where "lockdown and Covid hysteria is still going on", like Kali, call the moving van today.
Yes, but the donkeys and rhinos outnumber the elephants.
Baloney. Liberals hold 4, conservatives a soft 5.
DOA
Sobering. His explanation of the INGSOC slogan WAR IS PEACE is eye-opening. I thought it was merely a manifestation of a purposely opaque idea representing the destruction of objective truth. Like asserting 2+2=5. Turns out there is a logical track to that equation via a totalitarian method.
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