[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."
#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.
#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.
#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?
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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!
#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.
[CNN] Former Secretaries of State Madeline Albright and Colin Powell criticized President Donald Trump's handling of US foreign relations in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN, with Albright slamming what she called Trump's "kinship" with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Powell calling for the US to "speak firmly with respect to Russian actions" and to end family separations.
When asked on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" about whether she had ever seen another president say things that contradict his administration's policy towards another country the way Trump has done with regard to Russia, Albright said she had not.
"And the decision-making process simply does not work," Albright said. "The President goes and does his own thing, then somebody says, 'He meant to say' ..."
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...Powell, who served in the George W. Bush administration,...
This morning Woodrow submitted the Mediaite take on this story, which describes the former secretary of state as a Republican. But Mr. Powell endorsed and voted for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012, suggesting that his heart has not belonged to the Republicans for a very long time.
#11
Colin Powell is one of the biggest disappointments I've seen in politics and there have been quite a few.
Perfumed Prince of the Pentagon first, last and always. To get from Colonel to the lofty Land of the Generals requires strong backing -- mostly it confirms that the person is a political animal. I was underwhelmed when I saw his appointment to SecState and have become progressively disenchanted with him as the years roll by.
#13
IIRC it was he who convinced Bush I to end the war on the 100th hour rather than finishing off Saddam's army. Something the people of Iraq paid for in the next ten years.
[DailyWire] A Democratic staffer arrested last week on charges that he revealed the personal information of several Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members was not an "intern" for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), as originally reported. The 27-year-old career staffer, Jackson Cosko, was, instead, reportedly a "fellow" Traveller?
paid by an "outside institution" who served as a primary adviser in Lee's Congressional office.
According to the Tennessee Star, "[w]hile [Lee] claims Cosko was an 'unpaid intern' in her office, the Washington Post reports that Cosko was actually a 'fellow.' This was confirmed by Cosko’s lawyer, who said his client was a 'fellow' in Jackson-Lee’s office and that he was being paid by an 'outside institution.'"
The "outside institution" has yet to be named, but the position of "fellow" is much different from that of "intern." According to correspondence from Lee's office, Cosko was routinely trusted to advise Lee and communicate with other members of Congress, specifically those co-sponsoring Lee's bills.
As the Tennessee Star points out, that raises questions: "It seems clear Cosko isn’t some unlucky and overzealous intern who got caught being a naughty boy. Rather, it seems Cosko might be a Democratic operative, paid by an outside organization, planted in an unpopular congresswoman’s office possibly so he could engage in exactly the type of behavior that just got him arrested."
Cosko was arrested last week after federal investigators discovered he was responsible for editing a Wikipedia article revealing the personal names, addresses, and phone numbers of several Republican senators, almost immediately after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) concluded a fiery speech defending then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Fox News reports that Cosko is currently charged with "publishing restricted personal information, threats in interstate communication, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, witness tampering, second degree burglary, and unlawful entry." He may also face charges for a separate threat he allegedly issued to a fellow Congressional aide, threatening to reveal the names, social security numbers, and health information of an unnamed senator's children. Will someone follow the $?
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Rather, it seems Cosko might be a Democratic operative, paid by an outside organization, planted in an unpopular congresswoman’s office possibly so he could engage in exactly the type of behavior that just got him arrested."
And then there was Carter Page. Who recruits, trains, funds, and deploys these mischievous operatives ?
#7
We need to find out what org paid for him, then qualify them as a terrorist supporting agency...
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#8
They must pay him handsomely if he's willing to risk jail time.
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#9
27 is just about the age when young men find out that they are not, in fact, invincible and invulnerable. I think he is about to find that out in spectacular fashion.
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This is the difference between being mid-level and being Hillary Clinton. He's going to jail while she's still walking around free today.
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#11
Too bad this guy isn't Pakistani, them sem to have less trouble avoiding jail time when laws are broken on the Hill?
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