Posted on 07/03/2024 5:38:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
You don't recall correctly. The number of Justices that comprise the Supreme Court is established not by the Constitution but by federal law, as enacted by Congress:
"The Supreme Court of the United States shall consist of a Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices, any six of whom shall constitute a quorum."
28 U.S.C. sec. 1
If this provision were to be changed by Congress to establish new seats on the Court, there is nothing that the current members of the Court could do to prevent any new, confirmed Justices from being seated.
But abominations like Roe v Wade itself are perfectly fine ...
Stay the hell away from any jurist named LaCroix.
“Recent action by the justices is setting off new conversations about Supreme Court reform. “
In other words putting SCOTUS under the Democrats’ control forever.
Good luck, Miss LaCroix...... one takes an act of Congress and signing by the Administration and the latter takes a Constitutional Amendment.
There has been a sea change in the thinking process of the two parties on this. Previously, in the 1970s and 1980s, when liberals controlled the courts, they wanted the courts to make all the decisions. The conservatives wanted the executive branch to make the decisions. The concept of Deep State was not yet fully appreciated.
Now, we want the courts to reign in runaway federal agencies since we control the courts, and these agencies are part of the Deep State apparatus, whose malignity has become more apparent in the 21st century. But liberals have suddenly developed a cartoonishly unquestioning subservience to the Deep State in recent years, and wants bureaucrats to make all the decisions.
>>We DO need term limits — BUT NOT at the court — at the US Congress!<<
YES!
That is a nasty thing to say and not true. There was a strong push to give women full civil rights and end slavery as well.
We are not agreed. Do you think the middle eastern terrorist states are great countries? Bastions of freedom? Women have no rights there. Go live there,why don’t you.
“ That is a nasty thing to say and not true.”
Sorry you don’t like it. But giving the vote to women was a terrible idea.
“ There was a strong push to give women full civil rights and end slavery as well.”
There is no right to vote. If there were it would have been added to the BOR. The idea of extending the franchise to women was debated thoroughly and defeated.
Rightly so in my opinion
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you have a ditz and a man, who like Biden, has already reached his apex and whose mental faculty is declining rapidly.
Total role reversal!
Quite literally EVERY elected democrat and eneMedia member is on record clamoring FOR the SC expansion scheme. A new R House and Senate should play video of every single democrat demand 4 more justices. “In an effort to compromise with our friends across the aisle, we are introducing enabling legislation permitting the next president to nominate 4 new Supreme Court justices.”
I’m not surprised that a college professor takes the position she does.
Complete ideologue and worried about how this will impact some liberal cause, today.
The greater concept behind this, how this is in step with the Constitution and can benefit BOTH sides of the political spectrum at times, goes lost to someone like this with myopic vision.
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