When Democrats have POTUS, the House and 60 votes in the Senate (or elimination of filibuster and 51 votes), they can change the statute and do just that.
It's been done before.
So this will be nothing new. Thanks for making the case for our side.
“Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and they have eliminated the use of the filibuster in Supreme Court nominations.”
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Wait. I thought that was the dems under Harry Reid.
Why?
After the fake Russian collusion investigation, the impeachment sham, the disgraceful Kavanaugh hearings, the mail-in ballot scams, the nationwide riots, the endless disrespect of the office, and on and on... In what crazy world do you believe that President Trump owes the Democrats any courtesies whatsoever?
You have behaved shamefully over the past four years and now you make threats? "We will riot!" You've been rioting over dead felons for nearly four months now. "We will pack the court!" Not if the current court says no, you won't.
Do you people think we are this stupid? Do you think the Democrats would do anything different if the shoe were on the other foot?
Of course not. Now politely go f**k off while President Trump, with lightning speed, replaces RBG's vacancy.
How people can continue to perpetuate the Kavanaugh myth is beyond me. It totally defies reality.
For crying out loud.
Wasn’t Chemerinsky one of the legal goons calling for impeachment back in 2016/17? Now he wants fairness and bipartisanship? Go pound sand professor!
Democrats dropped the 60 vote requirement to end the filibuster for Judicial and other executive nominees...
So stop this GOP dropped the filibuster nonsense. The Dems did that in. 2013 and the GOP warned them if they did it they would regret it... but they didn’t listen
They pushed hundreds of leftist unqualified folks into positions under Obama after they dropped this rule.
Stop the lies that the GOP got rid of the filibuster for appointees
In fact the Dems are talking about getting rid of the filibuster all together if they take the Senate this cycle.
It won’t matter. The cowards in the GOPee Senate are already trying to find where to go to surrender.
So what if the newly remade Supreme Court declares such Court packing unconstitutional? If a “right” to abortion can be found in a “prenumbra” and “emanation” so can a “right to a non-political Court.”
People also seem to forget that the left was ALREADY going to try to pack the court even if the GOP doesn’t fill this seat.
They’ve made clear that if they get both houses and the Presidency they are going to do all of the following:
1. Eliminate the filibuster completely.
2. Expand the Supreme Court to 13 and add 100 new federal judgeships.
3. Make Puerto Rico and Washington DC States so they will add 4 new hard left Senators.
4. Eliminate the electoral college.
This is already outlined, very clearly as their intention regardless of what the GOP does.
So this is an empty threat.
Only the Republicans can stop this ... or delay it to after Trump’s re-election. The GOP is the Democrat/Communist Party’s “secret weapon”; therefore, anything is possible.
Wow, the very first line of this betrays his ignorance.
"In a long overdue action, the Senate changed its rules to eliminate the filibuster for presidential appointments to federal agencies and to federal court judgeships. Now a nominee will be able to be approved by a majority of the Senators. It’s about time the Senate did this.
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Eliminating the filibuster will now benefit the Democrats. President Obama will be able to have his picks for the federal judiciary and federal agencies easily confirmed. But there will be a time when there is again a Republican president and a Republican Senate and they will then be the beneficiaries of this action. Only when the president and the Senate are of different political parties are there likely to be significant fights over nominations.
But this is as it should be. The Senate’s action was a long overdue step in the right direction. Next, the Senate should eliminate the filibuster entirely, including for legislation and nominations to the Supreme Court.
While this does not speak directly to this issue, it does illustrate his endorsement of Executive actions like this enlargement of the Supremes under the next Democratic Party Administration!
Erwin Chemerinsky’s an idiot.
He defines ‘fair’ as what benefit Democrats even though the law is with Republicans? What a jerk. Go away Chemerinsky...
They were going to pack either way if they won.
Rats always want to change the rules when they hold a losing hand. All their moral arguments are empty because everyone knows they would be hypocrites if they were in the other position.
In other words the Republicans didn’t rollover and agree with us on Kavanaugh or Impeachmnet, so therefore they must be racist bigots..
The woman was an obstacle to good governance and the carrying out of our Constitution. Since she refused to retire and let her aides and minions supply leftist arguments and votes I am glad she finally died. That was the only way to get rid of her poison.
Rot In Hell RBG
“Despite evidence...” You mean despite the unproven allegations by RAT partisans which more holes than Swiss cheese?
Trump should use political Jiu-jitsu and state that he is all for expanding the court and putting even more conservatives on the Court. That would make the libs’ heads explode.