The 28th Amendment to "reform" the SCOTUS

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Should we Amended the Constitution to set the size of the Supreme Court?

  1. No,leave it as it is with the ability of Congress and the President to change it at will.

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  2. “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine Justices.”

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  3. Add "Justices shall serve no later than their 78th birthday ”

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  4. and Add "And be subject to Senate confirmation every 15 years"

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  1. LangleyMan

    LangleyMan Well-Known Member

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    Because you would be compelled to personally attack @Ronstar?

    The very conservative SCOTUS in the early 1930s let almost all the New Deal to stand, making Roosevelt's court packing charade a nonstarter. So, why did SCOTUS let Roosevelt have his way? Because all it takes to change the number of Justices is simple legislation and a Presidential signature. Clearly, the Judiciary is the weakest branch of government, a truth SCOTUS understands and treads lightly.
     
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    In fairness IIRC, one of the conservatives on the court died and another changed the way he was voting ("a change in time that saved nine")
     
  3. LangleyMan

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    Maybe it's time the Senate decides everything by majority vote.
     
  4. LangleyMan

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    This Mitch...?

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    Indeed it was. Roosevelt could have groomed a successor.
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    if the Democrats had done this to Bush, you guys would have been crying "treason!!!!"
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He should have groomed Truman who FDR kept in the dark.
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It is normal as it turns out. Same as it is normal that Trump nominated Barrett and the Senate approved her. And she is on the Bench now or eligible to be there.
     
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    Democrats borked Robert Bork.
     
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    Biden did that to little girls.
     
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    That is what the House does.
     
  14. Ronstar

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    Trump seems to have a incest pedo relationship with his daughter.

    its sick
     
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    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/hist...hed-with-the-supreme-court-and-lost-78497994/

    And the Perkins battery case?

     
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    Men must slap their daughters for even telling dad how much they love them.
    Biden however gets to molest other men's daughters with no problems at all.
     
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    I disagree. If a SCOTUS five-vote majority has no effective redress, we cease to have a representative democratic republic.
    Elections are the remedy for court stacking. The remedy for an ideological SCOTUS would be almost unreachable with your approach.
    Your proposed amendment shouldn't see the light of day.
    Agreed. It's difficult to get enough experience to be nominated and confirmed before you're 35-years-old.
    How would you know?
     
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    WARNING TO POSTERS

    Do not receive your history lessons from the ^^^^^^^^^^ poster.

    During the next year, these five judges, occasionally in concert with others, especially Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, struck down more significant acts of Congress—including the two foundation stones, the NRA and the AAA, of Roosevelt’s program—than at any other time in the nation’s history, before or since. In May 1935, the court destroyed FDR’s plan for industrial recovery when, in a unanimous decision involving a kosher poultry business in Brooklyn, it shot down the blue eagle. Little more than seven months later, in a 6 to 3 ruling, it annihilated his farm program by determining that the Agricultural Adjustment Act was unconstitutional. Most of the federal government’s authority over the economy derived from a clause in the Constitution empowering Congress to regulate interstate commerce, but the court construed the clause so narrowly that in another case that next spring, it ruled that not even so vast an industry as coal mining fell within the commerce power.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/hist...hed-with-the-supreme-court-and-lost-78497994/
     
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    Isn't it funny how the guilt or innocence of sexual assault allegations is completely related to their political party?

    Kavanaugh and Trump? Obviously innocent
    Biden? Obviously guilty

    Of course, if you were a democrat, your opinion would be the exact opposite.
     
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    Propaganda Alert!

    Liberals are legalizing marijuana while many conservatives want to continue waging the insane war on pot.
     
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    Where is that? Democrat senators passed the prohibition amendment banning Americans from drinking alcohol beverages. This was to enormous protest. Are we seeing enormous protest over the pot laws found in the various states? Democrats also owned the House.

    If you want to examine the source of marijuana laws, look no further than the Democrats.

    propaganda alert: Democrats are not LIBERALS

     
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    If they truly wanted not to have Kavanaugh, they had other earlier bites of the apple. And so far as a Justice on the SCOTUS, he seems to be delivering very well reasoned decisions.

    Biden is different in the sense it is other men's children he has the habit of putting his hands on.
    Trump and his adult daughter are affectionate. To Democrats unless done to a child, not your own either, it is a sin to be affectionate with your own daughter.
     
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    The point flew over your head. I'm not talking about his weird level of intimacy with his daughter; I'm talking about the 45 women who claim he assaulted them.
     
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    DEMOCRATS ARE NOT LIBERALS

    Democrats banned Marijuana. Let's hope that they change their minds as has Cory Booker. See if he can get his law passed.

    FDR passed the anti Marijuana law in 1937.

    https://www.history.com/news/why-the-u-s-made-marijuana-illegal

     
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    So you think Trump is convicted of assaulting 45 women? PS, as was proven in the Clinton Jones case, presidents still can be forced to court over things like Sex crimes.

    I was discussing the fact Kavanaugh who was named by a poster was subjected to scrutiny other earlier times and nothing bad was presented about him earlier. The woman who is past middle age suddenly recalls some kid from high school? And you believed her?

    There are ways for YOU to present points to avoid your accusations points flew over their heads!

    It is called making the case clearly. That works well for me.
     

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