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To: Non-Sequitur
Lincoln's "court packing" is no worse than Jefferson's "court packing" and not as bad as Van Buren's "court packing". You need to keep these things in perspective.

Do you work at HP?

HP uses the tired ‘but they did it too’ defense
Companies in trouble often fall back on claiming what they did was common ...

They all seem to miss the point: Even if everyone else is doing it, that doesn't necessarily make it right.

Source: The 'They did it too' Defense

697 posted on 09/04/2007 12:17:13 PM PDT by rustbucket
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To: rustbucket

No, if I were to use the ‘they did it too’ defense then I’d be pointing out that Jefferson Davis ignored his constitution at will, and that he and his congress guaranteed a supreme court to their liking by refusing to establish one in the first place. But I’m not trying to do that. I’m just saying that if merely increasing the size of the Supreme Court is ‘court packing’ then there have been worse cases of it in our history. Van Buren added two, count ‘em two, seats to the court. Shameless.


701 posted on 09/04/2007 12:27:49 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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