Balancing the Supreme Court

Concart said:
Yep, the purpose of the thread to was lay out a potential justification for expanding the court based on the premise that the Senate had failed in their Constitutional duty (we can agree to disagree on that, but I didn't pull the argument out of thin air). If this DOES happen it will be purely partisan. Biden was trying to give himself cover the other night in the 60 minutes interview, but what he was saying was bullshit. He will either push for this or he won't. Getting some academics to lay out an argument like mine is just an excuse for a partisan action. I won't pretend otherwise.
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Agreed; it's a Democrat meme in the last month of a Presidential election. Any bet that the argument mostly disappears after November 3rd?

Biden won't push for it because he knows, like Pelosi knew about the impeachment, that it is doomed to failure. Why? Because they have staffs that can add up votes in Congress.

They'd have a better chance of passing a gun ban since all they need is a simple Congressional majority, not a ratification of 38 states.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Agreed; it's a Democrat meme in the last month of a Presidential election. Any bet that the argument mostly disappears after November 3rd?

Biden won't push for it because he knows, like Pelosi knew about the impeachment, that it is doomed to failure. Why? Because they have staffs that can add up votes in Congress.

They'd have a better chance of passing a gun ban since all they need is a simple Congressional majority, not a ratification of 38 states.
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You do not have to amend the constitution to change the size of the court. So they certainly could do this.
 
Concart said:
Simple. Merritt Garland was legitimately nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court, but the Senate failed to even consider his nomination. In order to correct that, a seat should be added to the Supreme Court and Garland should be considered by the Senate for that open seat, or the person who filled that seat should be removed from the court. Since there is no reason to remove Gorsuch, we'll just have to add one more extra seat that will be appointed by President Biden. Done. No court packing necessary. The balance is restored, conservatives still have a 6-5 majority (it should actually be 5-4 at this point).

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer should make this happen.

Discuss.
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It's MERRICK, you low information dipshit.

No correction necessary the Constitution spells this out clearly enough for even you to understand. The President nominates, The Senate confirms. Period, end of story. The Constitution says nothing about a "balanced court".

And please stop lying about a "6-3" court. Roberts votes with you leftist scumbags. We now have a 5-4 SCOTUS. Sounds pretty "balanced" to me. In fact, it's the definition of balanced.
 
Cypress said:
Weird that a political party that has only won one single national election since the 1980s, has nonetheless been able to dominate and shape the nature of the nation's highest Court
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Weird that anyone cares about popular vote since it has never meant anything.
 
Celticguy said:
Weird that anyone cares about popular vote since it has never meant anything.
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It's a political tool. "Will of the People". What they are refusing to admit is that the Constitution is the "Will of the People". They can't change the Electoral College, so they put on pink pussy hats, break out their cardboard signs and bitch about it....as is their right.

The problem is if anyone cares about their protests. I don't. It won't change anything. Better to focus on what can be changed as the Serenity prayer advises.
 
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Blessings
 
countryboy said:
It's MERRICK, you low information dipshit.

No correction necessary the Constitution spells this out clearly enough for even you to understand. The President nominates, The Senate confirms. Period, end of story. The Constitution says nothing about a "balanced court".

And please stop lying about a "6-3" court. Roberts votes with you leftist scumbags. We now have a 5-4 SCOTUS. Sounds pretty "balanced" to me. In fact, it's the definition of balanced.
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Thanks spelling nazi.
 
Concart said:
Simple. Merritt Garland was legitimately nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court, but the Senate failed to even consider his nomination. In order to correct that, a seat should be added to the Supreme Court and Garland should be considered by the Senate for that open seat, or the person who filled that seat should be removed from the court. Since there is no reason to remove Gorsuch, we'll just have to add one more extra seat that will be appointed by President Biden. Done. No court packing necessary. The balance is restored, conservatives still have a 6-5 majority (it should actually be 5-4 at this point).

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer should make this happen.

Discuss.
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nothing inappropriate has happened here. you're a sore loser.
 
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