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lees1975

(7,189 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 03:11 PM Apr 2024

Time to pack the court.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/04/its-time-to-pack-supreme-court.html

The political nature of the Supreme Court is telling us that the time has come for the Democrats in the Senate to pack the court with justices who are committed to the rule of law. Impeachment and removal of corrupt and incompetent justices like Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Neal Gorsuch is the best way to go, but with the sharp partisan wall that now exists in Congress, getting a two thirds majority would require Republicans voting with integrity instead of by their politically driven opinion, and there aren't enough Republicans with integrity left, if any at all, for that to happen.

So, packing the court with more justices, by amending the Judiciary act, is the only recourse.

This is also a place where the President can make some strides in gaining support among progressives in his own party. There's not a better way to ensure progressive influence for a generation to come than to nominate judges for the federal bench committed to that particular perspective.
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Time to pack the court. (Original Post) lees1975 Apr 2024 OP
We will never pack the court as long as we call it "pack the court." Patterson Apr 2024 #1
This is ForgedCrank Apr 2024 #2

ForgedCrank

(3,120 posts)
2. This is
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 04:29 PM
Apr 2024

not the right way to do things.
We win on principals and policy, not work-arounds and games.
There are already too many judges on this court. My only beef with the system is that they should be limited to 4 year terms, and it should not be easy to appoint one with a simple majority, that was a huge mistake in itself and should have never been done. Playing those games always backfires, and this one did very quickly.

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