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2017-03-18 Home Front: Politix
Rush: We're on the Verge of a Constitutional Crisis
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 The most basic, most idiotic notion here is that the US courts should think they have anything legitimate whatsoever to say or do in the execution (executive, get it?) of US foreign policy.
We didn't choose these black robed bozos to do that, and it's far past time to do something about them.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-03-18 00:44||   2017-03-18 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2  Tangentially related: today the bust of former US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roget B. Taney will be removed from the grounds of the Frederick MD City Hall in preparation for its relocation to a nearby cemetery. Taney wrote the infamous Dred Scott USSC decision, which was a major element leading up to the Civil War.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-03-18 01:02||   2017-03-18 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Behold the Obama legacy stay-behind mission.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-18 01:04||   2017-03-18 01:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I need a program to keep track of all the constitutional crises the US is struggling with at the moment.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-03-18 01:12||   2017-03-18 01:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Jerry Pournelle:
I doubt that Ryan has the votes to impeach this Hawaiian judge, and given the Republican squishes as well as Democratic joy over the injunction, there are certainly not enough votes in the Senate to convict; but there are some Democrats who find the Courts’ interference in the political game rather alarming.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-03-18 02:04||   2017-03-18 02:04|| Front Page Top

#6 We had the same problem - activist judges, in Israel. Maybe your Sessions should talk with our Ayeled?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-18 03:24||   2017-03-18 03:24|| Front Page Top

#7 The judge declared his court to be a Global court, not a court of this nation and its constitution.

Strip him of his US citizenship.
Posted by Glineger Thomoper8973 2017-03-18 03:56||   2017-03-18 03:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Federal judges are making up law according to their personal beliefs, whims, political party and "cult of personality". Without strict interpretation and adherence to our Constitution it is easy to lose our way.
Posted by JohnQC 2017-03-18 08:07||   2017-03-18 08:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Trump may get his Andrew Jackson moment sooner than thought:
"John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it"
Posted by Frank G 2017-03-18 11:48||   2017-03-18 11:48|| Front Page Top

#10 If you want to hear a federal judge bitch up a storm, ask him whether the General Services Administration is treating him well. Not only does the judiciary not control an armored division, it basically can't buy a pencil sharpener without the cooperation and $$$ of the GSA. The GSA is clearly part of the executive branch. So instead of thinking about difficult projects like impeachment, think in terms of how Judge X's next request to the GSA is going to be handled. "Your law clerk's computer just crashed? We'll get someone out there right away -- here, I'll pencil you in for April 2025. We need to take care of all the starving immigrant children first. You're OK with that, aren't you?"
Posted by Snakes Chins7872 2017-03-18 13:02||   2017-03-18 13:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Snakes Chins7872, I like the way you think.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-18 13:53||   2017-03-18 13:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Verge? We've had a judicial aristocracy for generations. Should have noticed back in the 80's with the Bork nomination. That's when they all should have been limited to 16 year terms.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-03-18 18:22||   2017-03-18 18:22|| Front Page Top

#13 There are 124 judicial vacancies with one pending out of 890 authorized judgeships. According to the American Constitution Society:
If any Senator objects to unanimous consent, then a cloture motion must be filed in order to end debate and move to a vote. Cloture motions for judicial and executive nominations require 51 votes to pass. If 51 Senators support cloture, the full Senate will vote on the nomination, with a majority required for confirmation. If fewer than 51 Senators support cloture, debate continues and a confirmation vote cannot occur. This is known as a filibuster. Prior to the November 2013 Senate rules change, all cloture motions required 60 votes to pass. Now, only cloture motions for legislation and nominees to the Supreme Court require 60 votes. Once the Senate holds a confirmation vote, with a majority voting to confirm, the nominee becomes a Federal Judge. It would be good to fill these ASAP.

Congress has the power of the purse and Trump has veto power over pet projects going to Schumer's state should he be too much the obstructionist in these appointments.
Posted by JohnQC 2017-03-18 18:35||   2017-03-18 18:35|| Front Page Top

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