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These Leftists Want Democrats To Pack The Supreme Court Once Trump Is Gone
Daily Caller ^
| 06/28/2018
| Peter Hasson
Posted on 06/28/2018 2:00:27 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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The article goes on to quote Huffpo: "Other reforms, including term limits to remove aging conservatives, may well be appropriate." These proposals are not new. After FDR tried to push them, he was faced with bipartisan opposition. Rep. Samuel B. Pettengill, (D), Indiana: A packed jury, a packed court and a stuffed ballot box are all on the same moral plane. This is more power than a good man should want or a bad man should have.
The consequences would likely be chaotic. Dems take over the WH and the senate and change the number of justices to 19, then the GOP takes control and makes the number 41.... SCOTUS confirmation hearings would either become a full time job for the senate, or the hearings would become faster and maybe more careless,
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Court packing was rejected when FDR proposed it to a Congress that did anything he wanted, but these Leftists think they will have better luck. Yeah, sure.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:02:54 PM PDT
by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
So Harry Reid changing rules backfires on them so now they want to change rules again.
Definition of insanity is?
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:03:42 PM PDT
by
Pollard
(If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
To: Pollard
Its certainly the definition of naked, unashamed hypocrisy.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:06:27 PM PDT
by
mrsmel
(I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
We should just void Marbury vs Madison and start all over, with federal judges appointed for fixed 10-year terms, after which they need to go through the nomination process again.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:07:08 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The only way they'll be able to do it, is to pack the court.
Under Franklin Roosevelt it was suggested he increase the number of SCOTUS Justices, so he could get more favorable rulings.
It went nowhere.
I wouldn't want to see either side do this.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:08:44 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
To: Repeal 16-17
FDR backed down because his own party wasn’t behind it and a Justice sold out, kicked the Constitution to the curb, and with the so-called “progressives” on the Court lawlessly gave FDR what he wanted.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:10:48 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Wonder why the commie’s are not talking about what they really want to do? Next time a Rat is elected president, just declare the constitution null and void, disband congress and the courts and become ruler for life.
It’s what they truly want and expect. They never have and never will believe in the rule of law, constraints on power, our representative form of government.
To: Repeal 16-17
Congress was a totally different beast when FDR tried to pack the Court. If Dems get enough seats + POTUS this WILL happen. Bank on it.
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
This could backfire on them, as when Harry Reid eliminated filibusters on judges.
That gave the usually spineless GOP the backbone to retaliate by extending it to SCOTUS, with the monumental result that simple majority votes will set the SC for a generation.
If the liberals go ahead and pack the court, the backlash could lead to a sweeping reform of the whole federal judiciary when conservatives take power afterwards.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:11:29 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
I can’t believe Clinton put a 60 yr old(Ginsburg) on the Supreme Court.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:16:45 PM PDT
by
Conserv
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
So lets say Trump is gone after his 8 year stint. And...we have another republican President. Then what, libtards.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:18:59 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Yeah Democrats tried this once before... didn’t work then either.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:20:38 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Repeal 16-17
Court packing was rejected when FDR proposed it to a Congress that did anything he wanted, but these Leftists think they will have better luck. Yeah, sure.I hope you are right. I don't think there are many Dems like Pettengill (see post #1) in congress today.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:20:54 PM PDT
by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
That’s a great way to ensure quick removal from power.
To: Buckeye McFrog
Congress was a totally different beast when FDR tried to pack the Court.I agree. The people may have to rein in the lunatics in congress.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:24:51 PM PDT
by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
And if they try that they will get the same threats that FDR got when he proposed to do the same thing.
The politicians who try to do this leftists swindle might not be alive for very long.
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:25:11 PM PDT
by
elbook
To: unixfox
So, by Dim’s logic, we should do that now and add 6 more judges right away.
To: Repeal 16-17
From History.com...
"...Most Republicans and many Democrats in Congress opposed the so-called court-packing plan.
"In April, however, before the bill came to a vote in Congress, two Supreme Court justices came over to the liberal side and by a narrow majority upheld as constitutional the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. The majority opinion acknowledged that the national economy had grown to such a degree that federal regulation and control was now warranted. Roosevelts reorganization plan was thus unnecessary, and in July the Senate struck it down by a vote of 70 to 22. ...
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:27:30 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Now some liberals argue Democrats should simply expand the number of court seats and then immediately fill the new ones with left-wing jurists as soon as they take back control of Congress and the White House And the Deplorables should pull a Greasy Grass on them....
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posted on
06/28/2018 2:27:41 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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