The left have a plan. They say the amount of judges on the Supreme Court is not laid out in the constitution. So, if they ever regain the house and white house they will simply add-on enough seats to the bench in order to regain a majority (after packing it with progressives.)
That’s quite a plan. And then when the right regains the house and the white house they could do the same, and so on and so on, until there are over a 100 Supreme Court justices.
So, as a counter-measure to this potential lunacy, and since we currently hold all three branches of the government, we should pass a law that states the Supreme Court will be comprised of nine jurists, and that’s it.
The Daily Caller has the story.
It’s been tried by a Democrat before, FDR couldn’t even get that done. Ill educated moronic Democrats.
Didn’t FDR try something like that? How well did that work out for the dems?
Or, they could come up with proposals for new laws that would benefit citizens of the country and improve their prospects for a better future. Then they could run on those great ideas and be elected to office in such numbers that they could then pass the wonder legislation and sign it into law.
Or they could just try to cheat their way back into power, like they always do.
This has got to be the dumbest thing I have read all day.
FDR is all I have to say.
It would need to be a constitutional amendment.
Man, this civil war option is looking more attractive all the time.
How about a law that they follow the Constitution AS Written or be removed from the bench. NO activism.
Great little campaign issue they got there!
Run with it.
since the Left doesn’t actually believe in upholding the law, what they should be advocating is abolishing the Supreme Court.
Isn’t there an old adage, “A camel is a horse made by 100 Supreme Court justices” . . . or something?
SCOTUS should always have at least one more member than the Senate and the House of Representatives, combined. Whoever makes the Law should have the most people to actually do the job.
The next time the Left takes power, they will follow the nuevo bolivariano script and call a constitutional convention — after they have rigged the outcome. Works every time.
The Left prefers to co-opt institutions, rather than eliminate them. They enjoy bit of Kabuki.
I really expected Obama and his minions to have done it to keep him in power. I suppose his controllers were convinced Hillary would win, and they had to placate the Clintonites in the Party.
Never assume. Correa assumed in Ecuador. Lula assumed in Brazil. Fernandez assumed in Argentina. The Left has a good playbook, but people don’t always react predictably.
Was looking at the argument. Got all the proggtard tropes
Prevent rule by straw man (alt right)
Need to reflect the mores of the time
Musn’t be “shackled” to the weight of the past
Dont you love how these shitheads work “shackled” into everything (e.g., shackled to the kitchen)
Or congress could change the number to 11 right now and give Trump the chance to pack on 2 more conservatives.
” …we should pass a law that states the Supreme Court will be comprised of nine jurists, and that’s it.”
Yeah, that’s the ticket! We all know how them laws stop illegal behavior.
Maybe we ought to pass a law making murder illegal. We seem to have a nationwide problem with that little thing. By this reasoning, it’s all it would take to bring it to a halt.
I tried that in 1937 you goobers.
It didn’t work then, it won’t work now.
I wanted 15 judges for “better efficiency” (wink-wink).
https://www.history.com/news/franklin-roosevelt-tried-packing-supreme-court
Hmmm. “FDR tried packing supreme court”
Gotta’ admit, I love out of context quotes.
“FDR supports Lucy Mercer”