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[Skittles]

1. and

with her, the Supreme Court will have FIVE members put there by presidents who did not win the popular vote

is that democracy?

HELL FUCKING NO

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. It's called packing, cramming, stuffing the court.l . . . nt

[Skittles]

3. ABSOLUTELY CORRECT

[2naSalit]

4. K&R

[sandensea]

5. 1890s? 1690s!

[paleotn]

7. Yea, I wonder if Barrett-nut thinks she can bring back hanging for witches?

[sandensea]

11. Witches would probably be safer than Democrats, if she had her way

[Boogiemack]

6. I hope Joe takes the rope they are giving him and fixes not only the SCOTUS but

all the appellate courts.

[LymphocyteLover]

8. Clearly not-- and major reforms are fucking due

fuck the GOP to hell

[Mr. Evil]

9. Proof positive that Murkowski and all other rupublicans have no spine.

After Biden's overwhelming victory his first act should be to instruct congress to expand the supreme court. Then, they should impose term limits on the supreme court. Then, they should tell all that claim to be republican to go fuck themselves.

[dware]

15. Expanding the SC is doable,

term limits isn't without a Constitutional Amendment, which requires 2/3rds of the Congress and 3/4ths of the states to ratify, which means any 13 states can kill the amendment.

[TheRickles]

16. That's not correct.

Lifetime terms are not specified in the constitution, only that the justices "shall hold their offices during good behavior". Under this language, they could be transferred to an appellate court role after an SC term that was limited to, say, 18 years. Much good info on the constitutional issues can be here: https://fixthecourt.com/fix/term-limits/

[dware]

19. That's not true either.

https://medium.com/@hmichaelharvey/can-congress-limit-life-terms-of-supreme-court-justices-without-amending-constitution-5ee1d18be420

This analysis is a proper construction of a portion of Article 1, Section 8. However, this section does not grant Congress the power to eliminate life tenure under Article III, Section 1 for Supreme Court Justices, that is, I contend, without amending the Constitution.

The Constitution does prescribe a method to terminate the lifetime appointment of a Supreme Court Justice. That method is impeachment.

Article III of the US Constitution created the Supreme Court and gave Justices and other federal judges a lifetime appointment. Section 1 states in part, “… The Judges, both of the Supreme Court and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good behavior…”

You might want to read the whole article.

[TheRickles]

20. An interesting read - thanks for the link.

As with so many legal and political issues, many interpretations are possible. And if the final interpretation is up to the SC, then this'll be a tough row to hoe.

[dware]

21. You're very welcome,

and I do agree, it would be up to the SC and I highly doubt they would go against their own interests.

Great talking to you, have a peaceful Sunday.

[DENVERPOPS]

23. All the RepubliCON politicians

dare not cross the party, or their "Golden Parachute" will go away upon retirement. If they don't carry the parties water the entire time they are in office, they don't get one of those cushy lifetime appointments from some Republican Corporation or Academic Institution.
It's a revolving door for all of them........

[Midnight Writer]

10. You're the lawyer, Laurence Tribe. What, legally, do you advise us to do?

I don't see any way to stop this.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. The extreme right warpage renders it now the SCROTUS.

[Illumination]

13. Republicans really don't seem to care about what Americans think. They just want to cram

their ideas down our throats & tell us how much we will LOVE IT!...

[PatrickforO]

14. No it is not.

Nor is the Electoral College.

Nor is the fact that Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota each have two US Senators - a Senator in Wyoming represents only about 500,000 people, while a Senator in California represents around 20 million, and one in Colorado represents about 2.7 million.

That is an imbalance we need to rectify.

[TheRickles]

17. Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, plus Montana

Have the same total population as Los Angeles, yet they have TEN Senators in Congress.

[RainCaster]

18. There is so much election ratfuckery going on

All the GOP tricks must be banned:
Photo id's
Purging
Border "adjustments"
Mail-in limits
Vote box limits

Quite realistically, there are so many different tricks being used across the country, that the best thing to do is a comprehensive federal bill.

[czarjak]

22. Cheating is winning. Period.