Enlarging the Supreme Court is the only answer to the right's judicial radicalism
Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.
There is only one good thing that can come from the power-mad Republican rush to jam Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court before Election Day: Of a sudden, as the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, Americans in the tens of millions now know that our country faces a crisis of democracy triggered by the right wings quest for unchecked judicial dominance.
Barretts testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and President Trumps comments before nominating her, brought home just how dangerously disrespectful of democratic norms the enlarged conservative majority on the court threatens to be.
Her silence on the most basic issues of republican self-rule tells us to be ready for the worst. She wouldnt say if voter intimidation is illegal, even though it plainly is. She wouldnt say if a president has the power to postpone an election, even though he doesnt.
She wouldnt even say that a president should commit himself to a peaceful transfer of power, telling Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) that to the extent that this is a political controversy right now, as a judge I want to stay out of it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-high-cost-of-confirming-amy-coney-barrett/2020/10/24/8d5a236a-156f-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html
Atticus
(15,124 posts)dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Kill the filibuster and expand the court
First, WIN
Hanzzy72
(51 posts)It needs to be the first thing done once we take back the white house and the senate.
StClone
(11,683 posts)Jim__
(14,075 posts)The have effectively destroyed the accepted role of the Court. The Democrats have to respond in kind, otherwise, the Court just becomes a permanent weapon in Republican hands.
Hopefully, after the Democrats respond in kind, there can be some negotiated agreement restoring the legitimate role of the Court.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth