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in2herbs

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16. If Biden expands the court -- or even establishes a new Supreme Court to replace the current USSC
Fri May 6, 2022, 12:43 AM
May 2022

I don't see a national abortion law being overturned.

The Constitution requires a Supreme Court but places the structure of the Supreme Court squarely under the control of Congress. “The Constitution barely mentions the judiciary’s structure beyond providing for a supreme court and any lower courts that Congress might wish to establish. It is silent on the Supreme Court’s size and frequency of sessions as well as judges’ qualifications and compensation.” https://www.senate.gov/legislative/landmark-legislation/judiciary-act-1789.htm

So abolish this USSC and form a new one, with term limits, ethics rules, and justices who shall be removed if they lied, in any form, during their confirmation hearing. And omission of information shall be considered a lie.

There are specialties in every profession. For instance, when building a new USSC create specialty departments. Why not have 3 justices that only hear environmental cases because that is their specialty. Another 3 justices would only hear corporate/business issues because that is their specialty. There could be specialty divisions for other issues, too, such as women & children, voting, civil rights, qualified and quasi immunity claims by law enforcement/government officials, etc. We could end up with 15 justices.

Alito and the others can retire and live under a rock.

More has to be done than just GOTV. A drastic change at the USSC has to be part of the equation to get people to vote.

I know it's a pipe dream cuz we don't have the votes to make changes right now, but that doesn't mean we can't start planting the seeds of change in voter's minds right now for when we do have the votes.


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