Expanding the court is fine, but it doesn't get to the heart of the issue-the corruption of the process of nominating and confirming judges, which is about all the senate does these days. Anthony Kennedy resigned with the explicit promise his successor would be Brett Kavanaugh. That has to be addressed as well.
I think expanding the court could blow up with support if Dems talked about it more. Hell, no Republican ever gave two farts about Greenland until Trump wanted to take it over and now they all act like it's been their dream since forever.
Once you talk about something enough in the media, it becomes normalized, especially if you can make a case for it. Suddenly people rethink their assumptions—hey, maybe black people should be allowed to use the sane schools as whites! Maybe gay people should be able to marry! Maybe the Court is so far off the deep end it only makes sense to dilute its power with 20 new justices!
One thing to eliminate is the sense of personal power and mission that SCOTUS judges have. I would do it as follows: SCOTUS is made up of 15 randomly selected circuit judges serving in three classes of five, so that five are replaced every X years. Each case is heard by a random selection of 7 from the 15. Removing the possibility of a personal program should reorient them to the law. Also: it should be a hard, fixed litmus test for any Democratic support for any judge nominee that the nominee forswear ever countenancing originalism as a valid method of construing the constitution. The elimination of originalism from public life should be on the platform.
"Let me be clear," stated with faux gravitas, is empty calorie rhetoric. It's akin to "I want you to listen to me," Bill Clinton's prelude to "I did not. have. sex with that woman." Theatrical bullshit
Well the problem is, because elected Democrats have to be attached to reality, their proposals have to exist in the realm of achievability. They can't—for example—loudly proclaim that they can just take over the territory of allies, or come up with grandiose schemes.
Of course there is the other issue with the Supreme Court, of course...and the judicial system. And it's that there's wide deference to the champions of the unreconstructed in it. This is now twice we've seen that the plain language of the 14th Amendment does not apply to the regime we're subjected to.
Why pursue incremental half measures? Congress can abolish the Supreme Court by repealing the Judiciary Act of 1789, which created the Supreme Court. Article 3 of the constitution only calls for a supreme (lower case) court. The US Courts of Appeal can optimally and democratically fulfill that role. Vote accordingly.
I’d like to see justices feet put the fire for outright lying over what they supported. Women and marginalized people in the country have been irreparably harmed by being willing to go back to “simpler times. When women were women (the lesser sex) and men were men”. When the Black folks knew their place. A court should not go backwards. The justices should not be able to undo rights so hard fought. And rights that are key to a more just and fair society and reflection of what is moral and humane.
Topic adjacent, because it concerns Mitch McConnell, who, more than anyone else, created the monster that is this Supreme Court. Well, only 67% of it is a monster, as Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson are normal human beings, but the other 6, who are cons, are indeed monsters. Since 67% is greater than 33%, that makes this court monstrous. Back to Turtle McConnell - no one has stated which hospital he's at, which is odd. They say he's still in DC, which must have more than one hospital. Also odd - what's his diagnosis? Why won't they say? Now, cons claim to have spoken to McConnell (not with, so if he's brain dead as some claim, yeah, they could speak TO him). Some are saying that whatever the truth is about McConnell, the cons are keeping up the pretense that he's alive and his brain is functioning, until August 8, so that there won't be a special election to fill out his term that ends in January. There is no dignity with these people.
The problem with our 33% is by being there and playing along like it’s a legitimate court, they help preserve the illusion that SCOTUS is something more than a GOP super Senate.
It would be nice if the general public would pay attention to any of this. But I fear it's just us political junkies that are even aware of the problems with the judiciary.
I take the usual Dem response of using generalities to be their way of retaining flexibility. But I like the idea of just adding 100 justices to fuck up this Court that has gotten out of hand. My more radical approach is just to announce you’ve decided the Court is no longer legitimate and you will now be treating it as a merely advisory body. No more judicial review. Sorry Alito, but you broke it. The only real power the Court ever had was this sense from the other government bodies that it was the final say on the law. SCOTUS gave up any right to say on the law by leaning into corruption for the sake of Trump. It’s insane now to treat the Court as anything other than contempt.
It’s over, folks, another institution that was imperfect but ultimately sullied by Trump.
Expanding the court is fine, but it doesn't get to the heart of the issue-the corruption of the process of nominating and confirming judges, which is about all the senate does these days. Anthony Kennedy resigned with the explicit promise his successor would be Brett Kavanaugh. That has to be addressed as well.
A joke...?
Democratic leaders were being taken from the work camps to their execution.
One says, "By golly, I highly object to this! This is unconstitutional! I'm going to write a strongly worded letter to President Trump!"
The other says, "Whoa, whoa, there. That would be far too radical. Let's make a committee to discuss writing a strongly worded letter."
A third says, "Fools! We need a focus group to see if we should form a committee."
They argue amongst themselves for a bit until the guards shot them.
I think expanding the court could blow up with support if Dems talked about it more. Hell, no Republican ever gave two farts about Greenland until Trump wanted to take it over and now they all act like it's been their dream since forever.
Once you talk about something enough in the media, it becomes normalized, especially if you can make a case for it. Suddenly people rethink their assumptions—hey, maybe black people should be allowed to use the sane schools as whites! Maybe gay people should be able to marry! Maybe the Court is so far off the deep end it only makes sense to dilute its power with 20 new justices!
One thing to eliminate is the sense of personal power and mission that SCOTUS judges have. I would do it as follows: SCOTUS is made up of 15 randomly selected circuit judges serving in three classes of five, so that five are replaced every X years. Each case is heard by a random selection of 7 from the 15. Removing the possibility of a personal program should reorient them to the law. Also: it should be a hard, fixed litmus test for any Democratic support for any judge nominee that the nominee forswear ever countenancing originalism as a valid method of construing the constitution. The elimination of originalism from public life should be on the platform.
"Let me be clear," stated with faux gravitas, is empty calorie rhetoric. It's akin to "I want you to listen to me," Bill Clinton's prelude to "I did not. have. sex with that woman." Theatrical bullshit
Well the problem is, because elected Democrats have to be attached to reality, their proposals have to exist in the realm of achievability. They can't—for example—loudly proclaim that they can just take over the territory of allies, or come up with grandiose schemes.
Of course there is the other issue with the Supreme Court, of course...and the judicial system. And it's that there's wide deference to the champions of the unreconstructed in it. This is now twice we've seen that the plain language of the 14th Amendment does not apply to the regime we're subjected to.
Why pursue incremental half measures? Congress can abolish the Supreme Court by repealing the Judiciary Act of 1789, which created the Supreme Court. Article 3 of the constitution only calls for a supreme (lower case) court. The US Courts of Appeal can optimally and democratically fulfill that role. Vote accordingly.
I’d like to see justices feet put the fire for outright lying over what they supported. Women and marginalized people in the country have been irreparably harmed by being willing to go back to “simpler times. When women were women (the lesser sex) and men were men”. When the Black folks knew their place. A court should not go backwards. The justices should not be able to undo rights so hard fought. And rights that are key to a more just and fair society and reflection of what is moral and humane.
Topic adjacent, because it concerns Mitch McConnell, who, more than anyone else, created the monster that is this Supreme Court. Well, only 67% of it is a monster, as Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson are normal human beings, but the other 6, who are cons, are indeed monsters. Since 67% is greater than 33%, that makes this court monstrous. Back to Turtle McConnell - no one has stated which hospital he's at, which is odd. They say he's still in DC, which must have more than one hospital. Also odd - what's his diagnosis? Why won't they say? Now, cons claim to have spoken to McConnell (not with, so if he's brain dead as some claim, yeah, they could speak TO him). Some are saying that whatever the truth is about McConnell, the cons are keeping up the pretense that he's alive and his brain is functioning, until August 8, so that there won't be a special election to fill out his term that ends in January. There is no dignity with these people.
The problem with our 33% is by being there and playing along like it’s a legitimate court, they help preserve the illusion that SCOTUS is something more than a GOP super Senate.
Republicans have given Americans no other choice.
It would be nice if the general public would pay attention to any of this. But I fear it's just us political junkies that are even aware of the problems with the judiciary.
I take the usual Dem response of using generalities to be their way of retaining flexibility. But I like the idea of just adding 100 justices to fuck up this Court that has gotten out of hand. My more radical approach is just to announce you’ve decided the Court is no longer legitimate and you will now be treating it as a merely advisory body. No more judicial review. Sorry Alito, but you broke it. The only real power the Court ever had was this sense from the other government bodies that it was the final say on the law. SCOTUS gave up any right to say on the law by leaning into corruption for the sake of Trump. It’s insane now to treat the Court as anything other than contempt.
It’s over, folks, another institution that was imperfect but ultimately sullied by Trump.