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SCOTUS decisions

Yeah, like triggering the nuclear option. That seems to have worked well.

Doesn't really matter, conservatives will just do it themselves anyway. Then will slap a Democrat's name on it that never actually did it and call it a rule to justify the power grab to the media.
 
Doesn't really matter, conservatives will just do it themselves anyway. Then will slap a Democrat's name on it that never actually did it and call it a rule to justify the power grab to the media.

Works for Junebug's rationalization.
 
remember all, junebug told us he used to be a democrat. anybody still believe that?
 
Ah yes... the time honored tradition of libs crying foul and demanding to change the rules on anything inconvenient to their progressive agenda.

Who needs states or that pesky Article V of the Constitution anyway?
 
So winning, then.

I’ll take your comments on the need to restore the legitimacy of the court with the appropriate serving of salt.

I think it’s time for the Libs to start owning the Pubs.
 
Ah yes... the time honored tradition of libs crying foul and demanding to change the rules on anything inconvenient to their progressive agenda.

Who needs states or that pesky Article V of the Constitution anyway?
The number of Supreme Court Justices and Senate parliamentary rules aren't specified in the Constitution.
 
I think it’s time for the Libs to start owning the Pubs.
Or at least return it to a balance that reflects the will of the people instead of letting it be hijacked by an Ultra right-wing conservative minority
 
Ah yes... the time honored tradition of libs crying foul and demanding to change the rules on anything inconvenient to their progressive agenda.

Who needs states or that pesky Article V of the Constitution anyway?

The Constitution doesn't say anything about the number of Supreme Court Justices.

If you take a look at who the GOP wanted on the Court, you see how regularly they put up jokes for the positions:

Clarence Thomas- intra-office sexual abuse, no real experience, opposed Affirmative Action when that was how he got into Yale Law and got his position
Robert Bork- only person in DOJ who would fire people for following the law during the Saturday Night Massacre- opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964-supported segregation in clubs
Harriet Meirs - was so unqualified she had to be replaced
Brett Kavanaugh - even the hint of multiple sexual assaults was OK with the GOP
Merrick Garland- McConnell didn't follow the history of the United States to block his appointment

There is basically nothing the Dems can do that would be out of line considering the past 30+ years of GOP perversion of the highest court in the land.
 
Not a fan of expanding the court, even though it could counter some GOP fuckery. That's not a step that the GOP couldn't simply unfix the next time that they take Congress and the Presidency, and it would have the overall effect of making the Judicial branch subservient to the other two branches, which is not a good thing in the long term. I'd rather take steps to stop McConnell or his successor holding seats open until he gets the president he wants.
 
The only way you stop a future McConnell would be a constitutional amendment which would never happen. Any law could be simply reversed by the next switch in power.
 
Not a fan of expanding the court, even though it could counter some GOP fuckery. That's not a step that the GOP couldn't simply unfix the next time that they take Congress and the Presidency, and it would have the overall effect of making the Judicial branch subservient to the other two branches, which is not a good thing in the long term. I'd rather take steps to stop McConnell or his successor holding seats open until he gets the president he wants.

the judiciary at all levels is already being set to supersede the other branches. if RBG gets replaced by Trump, conservatives could have a stranglehold over policy for a generation.
 
Good thing they’re doing it there, otherwise this judge may force them to raise their mistake to adulthood

They’re men. Republicans only hold women accountable for men’s sperm.
 
Just impeach kavanaugh. The volume of complaints against him that were dropped upon his confirmation, his temperament during the hearings, lying under oath.
 
Just impeach kavanaugh. The volume of complaints against him that were dropped upon his confirmation, his temperament during the hearings, lying under oath.

Legitimately asking... what were the lies under oath. I haven’t seen that reporting.
 
With Supreme Court Mired in Dark Money, Time for Large Dose of Transparency
by Sheldon Whitehouse
https://www.justsecurity.org/67591/...rk-money-time-for-large-dose-of-transparency/

In 1971, prominent corporate lawyer and future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a memo for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He said, “the American economic system” – which seems to mean the power of corporate America – “is under broad attack” from academics, the media, leftist politicians, and other progressives. Against the nefarious forces of the anti-war, civil rights and environmental movements, Powell wrote:

. . . independent and uncoordinated activity by individual corporations, as important as this is, will not be sufficient. Strength lies in organization, in careful long-range planning and implementation, in consistency of action over an indefinite period of years, in the scale of financing available only through joint effort, and in the political power available only through united action and national organizations.

Today, we see how much that campaign has delivered. Polluter lobbyists and lawyers lead the EPA. Industry front groups disabled our campaign finance system and now spend unlimited dark money in elections. The firearms industry holds the Republican Party firmly in its grip on firearms. It’s pandemic.

This armada of special-interest influence, carefully orchestrated and richly funded, has turned its attention to the courts. Indeed, the Powell Memo referenced the importance of “activist” courts to help the corporate cause. For decades, conservative ideological donors like the Kochs, big tobacco, fossil fuel, and corporate front groups like the Chamber and the National Association of Manufacturers, fought for control of the courts. Their payback has been rich.

Just one win has justified their effort: the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, when five Republican-appointed justices opened the floodgates for unlimited spending in elections. Unlimited spending instantly led to anonymous unlimited spending, and triggered what one newspaper called the “tsunami of slime” we have seen in recent elections. This year, “dark money” spending reported to the FEC exceeded $1 billion. In practice, Citizens United gave powerful influencers triple power: to spend in unlimited fashion; to hide their spending in dark money channels; and to wield that power to quietly threaten and cajole. And, a super deal: if the threats work, you don’t have to spend the money.

That’s the kind of result you can achieve from just five justices, so the campaign to capture the federal courts goes full steam ahead, and under Trump at breakneck pace.

The Washington Post revealed earlier this year a sprawling network of organizations that is funded by at least a quarter-billion dollars of largely anonymous money and is spearheaded by the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo. This network played a big role in the confirmations of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. One anonymous donor gave $17 million to the Leo-affiliated Judicial Crisis Network for political campaigns against Judge Merrick Garland and in favor of Gorsuch; then came another $17 million for the political campaign to prop up Kavanaugh, perhaps from the same donor.

That would mean someone spent $35 million to influence the composition of the Supreme Court. Presumably, they’d expect results.
 
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