Posted on 05/26/2021 7:32:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
So settled law can be settled again by putting their thumb on the scale of justice?
What would they do if Reagan/Bush/Trump tried to pack supreme court?
Did I miss it when Roe passed and the GOP said the court need more justices due to the extremist decisions?
Yep - turning the Supreme Court into a rubber-stamp for the other two branches.
We always hear about packing. Can it be unpacked? GOP gets in and unpacks the justices any added by the rats?
Sounds like they are attacking the court.
Desperate Democrats undoubtedly regard post-17th Amendment ratification, 10th Amendment-ignoring Roe v. Wade as their “cash cow” for staying in power.
Insights welcome.
Congress controls the purse strings, they need to have funding for 9 justices and staff, no more.
Still looking in my pocket constitution for where abortions are okee dokee and tax money authorized for them. Anyone? Bueller?
Governance by threat does not portend well.
If Democratics are so worried about a court correction then let them pass a law in the Legislature legalizing infanticide.
In addition,
Democrats are vowing that any action by the United States Supreme Court to keep intact the legal precedent on abortion will add “fuel” to the push among some in their party to add seats to the nation's highest court.
For that matter,
Democrats are vowing that any attempt by the gas station down the street to change their prices will add “fuel” to the push among some in their party to add seats to the nation's highest court.
Well, the could count on support from across the aisle.
Just like slavery, it will be overturned.
Bush would have packed the court with liberals. Trump never had the power to do it.
But what would they do if a real conservative President with a real majority in the Congress tried to do it?
There's always another John Hinckley out there, or another Lee Oswald.
Yes. It’s been expanded and reversed before but not any time recently. FDR was really the one who tried to politicize the court this way to ensure he got his new deal policies
Yeah, we need to help change that.
Stray off the plantation and you'll have 20 new members that AGREE WITH US and you'll have mandatory retirement at 65...
And our new picks will be "George Soros approved" 25 year old drug addicts who have ZERO respect for the Constitutions and 'the law'...
This is exactly what happened during the FDR regime. The mere threat of packing the court cowed the SCOTUS to support FDR policies including the loosening of the commerce clause for all kinds of malfeasance.
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