On Saturday, Vice’s West Coast editor Harry Cheadle referenced the plot in a piece titled, "We’re Watching the Slow Poisoning of the Supreme Court."
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| Dems Latest Scheme: ‘Balance' Supreme Court by Adding Two Liberal Judges |
| 2018-10-08 |
| [Breitbart] Following the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh, some Democrats and progressive activists are shifting tactics, pushing a scheme to "pack" or "balance" the Supreme Court by adding two new seats to be filled by liberal judges. The Supreme Court expansion plot would be enacted if Democrats retake Congress and the presidency in 2020, according to the plan. On Saturday, Vice’s West Coast editor Harry Cheadle referenced the plot in a piece titled, "We’re Watching the Slow Poisoning of the Supreme Court." |
| Posted by:Anomalous Sources |
| #23 sorry posted before reading Darth. never mind. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-10-08 19:06 |
| #22 How about the senior judge from each of the 50 states? That should put a little more stiffening in the old 10th Amendment. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-10-08 19:05 |
| #21 I'm for redoing the SC totally. Each state gets to appoint one judge for a one year term. VP throws the tie breaker vote if needed. Can't pack the court and no lifetime appointment bullshit. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-10-08 17:33 |
| #20 Each new Administration should name three or four potential Supreme Court Candidates and have the Senate go over them and do everything except the final vote. Then if an opening appears one goes up for the vote and we're spared all this nonsense for the cameras based on who is being replaced and the timing of the appointment. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-10-08 16:40 |
| #19 Why don't we *Fast Forward" this? Each Administration will "Add N = (2 x Previous Opposition Administration's Picks) we will need more Supreme Court Justices than the population of the USA in a century or so... Cut to the Chase! Go Full-On 'Athenian Democracy' Public Trials and declare that all US Citizens are members of the US Supreme Court and have a vote! ...Or we could give this person a tranquilizer and ignore them as they babble! |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-10-08 15:20 |
| #18 in 2020 the Republicans should use a lot of Dem quotes in their ads. All the stuff they hate Trump about was fine with Clinton and Obama not so long ago after all. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-10-08 15:07 |
| #17 Kavanaugh Makes SCOTUS History With Clerk Appointments |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-10-08 14:09 |
| #16 He could read it from a teleprompter. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-10-08 12:57 |
| #15 Impeach Kagan and Sotomayer and then add 4 new originalists. When they scream, Trump should just look at them and says, “Elections have consequences. We won, you lost. Get over it.” in condescending Obama voice. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-10-08 12:31 |
| #14 Trump should hear their call to add two more Justices... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-10-08 12:03 |
| #13 Threats and Doxxing and such should be treated as serious crimes. There are only a small handful of nuts and paid agitators and before long they'll back off or be in prison if the Attorney General does their job right. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-10-08 10:03 |
| #12 The jungle drums are saying that behavior has consequences. Methinks these polls showing a blue wave are the usual wishful thinking by liberals to try and drum up their base and discourage the conservatives. There are a lot of conservatives out there completely pissed off by the Kavanaugh disgrace and throw in the usually pacifist conservative Christians, who are also very angry. The field could tilt and the trend line is going in the wrong direction for the liberals. Could they, perchance, get the same rude awakening in November they got with Trump? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-10-08 09:39 |
| #11 Oblowme said "Elections have consequences." |
| Posted by: SR-71 2018-10-08 09:26 |
| #10 The Dems shouldn't give Trump ideas. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2018-10-08 09:21 |
| #9 They sure as fuck wouldn't be talking about balance if they were in power. Go suck a shotgun, assholes. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-10-08 09:12 |
| #8 Constitutional Calvinball |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-10-08 08:56 |
| #7 “Elections have consequences” Barrack Obama |
| Posted by: Rjschwarz 2018-10-08 07:57 |
| #6 I must have missed the part of the constitution that said anything about balance. Seems interpreting the constitution was the main objective and having a court half filled with folks that seem the constitution is an inconvenience seems wrong. |
| Posted by: Rjschwarz 2018-10-08 07:56 |
| #5 When in doubt, pout. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-10-08 07:05 |
| #4 FDR's "New Deal Acts Declared Unconstitutional." It would appear the plague upon our constitutional process has been traced to one of it's earliest sources. Nicely done, thank you ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-08 03:20 |
| #3 We do not rule from the bench, idiots. The Law Makers are in Congress. What you are espousing is corruption outright. There is no left or right wing Judge. Just Originalist Constitutionalists or corrupt activists. There is no "balance" or middle ground. Just The Law. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-10-08 00:44 |
| #2 They are Marxists. This is what Marxists do. |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-10-08 00:28 |
| #1 Life sucks when you don't get your way, doesn't it? We lived through eight years of a presidency which was as close to Marxist as could be imagined and we didn't threaten other people as a result, so go to hell and learn to live with the results of a Trump presidency, assholes. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-10-08 00:12 |