Posted on 10/15/2018 7:57:02 PM PDT by TBP
Faced with a 5-4 conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, some liberal Democrats want to pack the court to reverse the balance. Once the Democrats regain control of the White House and the Senate, so the argument goes, the new Democratic president could create enough new seats on the Supreme Court to ensure a liberal majority.
The last time the Democrats tried that was in 1937. President Franklin Roosevelt had just been re-elected by the largest majority in American history. He carried all but two states, Maine and Vermont, and racked up unprecedented Democratic majorities in the Senate and House.
Not since Reconstruction had the nation been so close to one-party rule. The moment had finally arrived for FDR to square off against the Supreme Court — specifically, against the aging conservatives who had thwarted him by declaring huge chunks of the New Deal unconstitutional.
So FDR proposed to appoint one new justice for every sitting justice over the age of 70. That would allow him to add six new justices to the Supreme Court, raising the number from nine to 15. Such a court, he reckoned, would uphold the New Deal.
Yet despite the fact that he was now at the flood tide of his popularity and power, FDR failed at court packing. He failed for essentially three reasons: First, many Americans — even members of his own party — were alarmed at the power that his proposal would put into the president’s hands.
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Did you notice that in 1936 FDR lost Vermont and Maine? Those were rugged individuals back then, fiercely independent and not into FDR’s socialism. Boy those days are gone!
Maybe Trump should pack SCOTUS. Nice idea, democrats.
Glad they brought it up. Not their intention, but oh well.
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Trump BUSTING the 9th ‘Circus’ Court
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3695872/posts
President Trump’s nominees for the appeals court — litigators Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee and Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Bumatay — are all based in Southern California, are prominent members of the conservative Federalist Society, and have worked for Republican administrations.
None of the three were approved by Feinstein or Harris via a process known as a “blue slip,” the senators’ offices confirmed Thursday. [snip]
Traditionally, presidents have deferred to home state senators when nominating federal judges, agreeing not to nominate people unless those senators returned their blue slip in support of the prospective judge. [snip]
[But after Feinstein’s Kavanaugh antics, violating the ‘blue slip’ tradition is richly deserved.]
Nah. Wait until Trump replaces Ruth Bader-Meinhof with Thapar, and makes Mitch real happy.
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