Posted on 10/13/2020 5:58:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Biden-Harris court-packing plan is a plan to destroy the Constitution and replace it with a disguised dictatorship. Democratic court-packing is a plan to leave the forms of the Constitution intact while destroying its essence, much in the same way that Augustus dealt a death blow to the old Roman Republic. The Biden-Harris court-packing plan is a virtual enabling act, a law that would bypass all the normal lawmaking processes and turn national policy over to unelected far-left judges acting in response to the complaints of ultra-left lawyers and activists. If you think that sounds over-dramatic, let me take you to a federal courthouse in Eugene, Oregon, where a group of activists are seeking to have the Judiciary seize control over most of the nation's economic policy.
In 2015 those activists filed a lawsuit known as Juliana v. United States. The gravamen of the plaintiffs' case is that the Constitution contains a right to a "stable climate system," which is violated by a giant range of actions by the federal government (such as authorizing fossil fuel extraction). The plaintiffs sought, among other things, to have the court simply order the federal government to eliminate the use of fossil fuels and then enforce compliance with that plan.
On its face, this case appeared to be a long shot because the nature of the challenge and the relief sought seem to violate longstanding principles of administrative and constitutional law. However, a few days after the 2016 election, the district court sent a jolt through the legal world when it denied the government's motion to dismiss the case.
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The Supreme Court Doesn’t Need 9 Justices. It Needs 27:
https://time.com/5338689/supreme-court-packing/
Court packing will not be tolerated, talk about a nuclear option.
Don’t they already let criminals out on the streets currently?
Shows that they have had this on the back burner for a loooong time............
“the Constitution contains a right to a “stable climate system,”
Where in the Constitution is such a right???
Or, are the activists trying to get a Supreme court to imagine such a right out of their heads, as from their fictitious “living constitution”??
You know, I wouldn’t doubt that for one minute.
The authors of the “pack the court to 27” idea have no basic understanding of the Constitution to begin with.
Their ideas are all “democratic” verses who we are, a republic.
Their ideas are all majoritarian, verses what has saved our republic - separation and division of powers, forced intentional need for compromise, protections of the minority against the majority.
The authors could easily with their logic seek a constitutional amendment and just do away with the Senate, creating a unicameral legislature unchecked by a body designed to represent the states, as entities with their own representation in Congress.
As Conservatives there is nothing appealing about what the authors propose.
Chavez and Maduro did it to the Venezuelan Supreme Court to make themselves absolute dictators.
Well. For 3 more months Republicans are in a position right now to do the same thing.
Before the Democrats have the opportunity to do what they threaten, Trump/Senate could go ahead and put on 9 highly motivated extreme right wing ringers.
They would outnumber the 8 “normal” Justices, so they could impose whatever new laws they wanted. Maybe just “rule” the election process to be unneeded/out of date/old fashioned/unconstitutional, ie whatever they want.
Why not? That’s what Democrats are now threatening. So, conduct yourselves just like you believe’em.
They understand well the constraints the constitution puts on them in their ambitions of power to rule over the masses. And if it takes 27 judges (a democratic court) to destroy the republic and the constitution then so be it.
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