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In reply to the discussion: Should Dems now call on Gorsuch to resign? [View all]Xolodno
(7,359 posts)Much as I want him gone...and pisses me off that seat was stolen from Obama, the answer is no. Once you open the door for the court to be packed...we have no institution that is immune to politics. Even if it means the next 20 years will slant against our direction. Thomas Jefferson and FDR tried to overcome this and failed....and right fully so. Were going to see a conservative court for awhile, just accept it and learn to work around it.
You want to reform how judges are appointed? Then reform the Senate.....and that is easier than packing the SC.
And lets be honest, the recent conservative judges have surprised us....to the dismay of the rabid right. True they haven't been supportive of every liberal idea, but they have been loathe to reverse decisions of previous courts. Of course the recent abortion laws by some states will put them to the test. But I have to think, they are already looking at this and deciding to pass the hot potato. To reverse that, will almost certainly make the SC fully political...and for the first time, susceptible of the SC to be packed and they lose all influence. They are lifetime appointee's and thus not going anywhere. So they can wait out political winds, if they screw that up, they lose and gain power by election cycles...pretty sure they don't want to change that.