Posted on 02/16/2016 11:28:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Hell! Screw the Supreme Court! Call an Article Five.
Article V The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
Let the bodies fall where they may.
Why not Obama? He's lazy and narcissistic. He'll be at a private beach in Hawaii or some Muslim trillionaire enclave, when he's not playing golf or chilling with NBA and music faves.
I like the proposed Liberty Amendment where any SCOTUS ruling can be set aside by a vote of 3/4 of the state legislatures.
If the seat does stay vacant for a long time, how long will it take for the New York Times editorial board to call the vacancy “a constitutional crisis”?
“I don’t like the idea of Obama appointing another justice, but the president gets to decide. The American people knew this when they elected him, twice.”
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Strongly disagree. Most of the voters who put Obama into office don’t know anything about the supreme court, let alone that the president is responsible for appointing its judges.
The voters who put Obama into office knew only two things:
- He’s black
- He will give them free stuff
Currently Republicans control 31 state legislatures and 3/4ths of all state legislatures is 38.
Whats the over and under on the republicans caving? 4 wks . .3 mos. 6 mos.? And who will be the first RINO to cave. My money is on Snow.
323 Obama-nominated federal judges have been confirmed by the United States Senate. 119 federal judges were confirmed unanimously, 38 were confirmed by unanimous consent, 63 were confirmed on a voice vote. That’s 220 federal judges who were unchallenged and 103 who were challenged.
6 Obama nominees were rejected via Republican filibusters of their nominations. Obama withdrew all six nominations and in all six instances Obama nominated a different judge who was then confirmed.
The latest Obama-nominated federal judge to be confirmed is Leonard Terry Strand. Judge Strand has assumed his duties at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. He was confirmed 93-0 on February 11, 2016.
IMHO the Constitution should be amended to provide that a justice be selected (at least on average) every two years, and justices retire as necessary to maintain 11 justices on the bench. I am agnostic about the role of presidential candidates in nominating justices, but consideration should be given to electing justices in off-year elections.To me the ideal constitutional amendment would be created by convention, and would explicitly name the justices of SCOTUS. Which would assert state supremacy, of a sort, over SCOTUS since it would not require any action by Congress or the president.
“The problem is that with the lower courts packed by Obama, a bunch of bad liberal decisions will stand if the Supreme Court is evenly divided.”
Exactly!
Thanks. I looked it up and it’s supposed to equal the number of circuit courts.
“Whats the over and under on the republicans caving? 4 wks . .3 mos. 6 mos.? And who will be the first RINO to cave. My money is on Snow.”
It was less than 48 hours before Linda Graham started saying that he’d like there to be “consensus” in agreeing to Obama’s appointment. It may have been even less than that, somewhere around 36 hours, before he started talking about giving approval. He definitely let their intentions be known way early.
And one point I believe that was true. But I think there are currently eleven circuit courts plus the D.C. Circuit Court.
Add three more young conservatives and make it 11.
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