Dems Latest Scheme: ‘Balance’ Supreme Court by Adding Two Liberal Judges

More precisely, I corrected the inaccuracies of your quotes.
Now, can tell me where, exactly, what I said is wrong, or do you need that link I offered?

 

Doesn't matter - unbelievably, the Democrats are neither stupid enough nor petty enough to head down that rabbit hole.

 

Yes as Schumer had said during Bush43 when he declared no nominee would be considered with 19 months of the 2000 election. Should there have been double standard for Obama?

 

Well, if that's what Dems are going to do, we might as well add two more now.

These hearings confirmed that the traditional JFK/Hubert Humphrey Democrat party, as once envisioned by a Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, or Jim Webb, is long kaput. In its place is being birthed a hard-left progressive movement that absorbs the ideologies and methodologies of its base and that now incorporates all sorts, from Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist hipsters to Black Lives Matters, Antifa, and Occupy Wall Street protestors.

The new progressives recently have come to believe that they gain traction by the theater of disrupting senate hearings, cornering senators in elevators, stalking them on the way to work, doxing their opponents on the Internet, and during the hearings throwing out the concept of due process. Any means is deemed permissible to enact visions of social justice, given legislative and executive power is lost for now — and as if proverbially ordinary Americans who watched the televised circus might applaud the performers.

Diane Feinstein, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and the Democratic fossils on the Senate Judiciary Committee may in their golden years try to lumber onto the departing progressive train, but their septuagenarian and octogenarian creaky efforts to get on board grow sad. Joe Biden was reduced to threatening to beat Trump up behind the locker room. Diane Feinstein staged a clumsy eleventh-hour ambush of the hearings that proved pure bathos. Even leftists such as Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren fear that they are suddenly pseudo- revolutionaries, compared with the new, far more radical Jacobins, who in cyclical French Revolutionary style call for massive repeals of all student debt, free tuition, packing the Supreme Court, Medicare for all, a specified end to fossil fuels, quotas based on identity politics, and an abolishment of Immigration and Custom Enforcement. No one quite knows how far this cannibalistic cycle will go.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...n-fight-casualties-left-never-trumpers-metoo/

 

Not the left of course, but interesting idea.

I wonder if it might be enough to energize at least some parts of the Dem's shattered base.

 

I didn’t say it was a good plan lol

 

seems to me those independents are more to the center in general ergo democrats are doing the exact same thing as republicans but currently seem to fail at it

 

The GOP did nothing to Obama's appointees, that the Dems didn't start with Bush's. Moreover if you look at the amount of Judges approved pre-nuclear and post...not much difference. Secondly, who cares? The Dems took the nuclear option, Justices or Judges don't matter...the GOP just finished the job. Garland nomination was simply the GOP following the Biden Rule

The GOP simply followed the rules outlined by the Dems.

 

Didn't say you did the question was entirely rhetorical

 

Doesn't seem to matter. The Dems are worthless too, but at least they are not openly anti-individual rights like the GOP is nowadays.

 

They did change them. How can you not know this? Pay attention.

 

Free speech is an individual right the lefties hate.

 

This is what happens when you attempt to stack the court with partisan ideologues - the other side tries to balance it back out. The court is now stacked conservatively instead of the way it was intended.

 

Only yesterday, it was CNN staff lamenting that North Dakota has the same number of senators as California... the New Democratic Party are unhinged. Literally the unmaking of our little republic is what is being advocated by them. Advocating the packing of the SCOTUS, the destruction of the Senate... these but hurt liberals are attacking the very things that were designed to keep their brand of idiocy from abusing the nation.

 

You can change the number of justices but for now, it would still be Trump's pick. Change the number - I dare you. I double dog dare you.

 

The liberals were the ones who have consistently tried to stack the court. Ever notice how every single judge seen as the "swing vote" for the past several decades was appointed by a republican? That's because the 4 liberals always vote in perfect unison for the liberal position.

Now that you're getting beaten at you own game, you're whining about how unfair the rules are in the game you invented.

 

Well you certainly got your stage name correct, but it looks like it stopped at that

 

There is a single justice that is usually the swing vote the remaining 8 typically vote with their party. If it wasn’t biased their votes would be a surprise on just about every case.

It isn’t my game, I have been beaten at nothing - I hate partisanship. I wish the court was independent and voted based on the law, their conscious and what was best for America.

America is the one that has been beaten

 

How can you stack it when you don't know how a justice is going to vote? Must a leftie judge take an oath to always vote as a leftist block head? The first time a liberal judge sides with conservative judges, you'll be screaming for impeachment and claim the court is out of balance.

 

That's what conservative judges do. It's liberals who try to legislate from the bench.

 

What did Dems do to Reagan's choice Bork?

 

In a speech in 1992, Biden said,
"In my view, politics has played far too large a role in the Reagan-Bush nominations to date. One can only imagine that role becoming overarching if a choice were made this year, assuming a justice announced tomorrow that he or she was stepping down.

"Should a justice resign this summer and the president move to name a successor, actions that will occur just days before the Democratic Presidential Convention and weeks before the Republican Convention meets, a process that is already in doubt in the minds of many will become distrusted by all. Senate consideration of a nominee under these circumstances is not fair to the president, to the nominee, or to the Senate itself.

"Mr. President, where the nation should be treated to a consideration of constitutional philosophy, all it will get in such circumstances is a partisan bickering and political posturing from both parties and from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. As a result, it is my view that if a Supreme Court Justice resigns tomorrow, or within the next several weeks, or resigns at the end of the summer, President Bush should consider following the practice of a majority of his predecessors and not — and not — name a nominee until after the November election is completed."

Biden said if Bush were to nominate someone anyway, "the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is over."

Sorry, it is called the Biden Rule. So, Democrats started it, and Republicans are continuing it. Write Biden a letter and thank him. It is about time that Republicans turn Democrats' dirty tricks back on them.

 

But that's the only one. And, I'd argue that's extreme leftists not democrats in general.

With the republicans, pro life is an actual platform. Anti individual liberty. Anti marijuana. Anti collective bargaining. They literally are against you having the right to become a collective if you want.

The Republican party has lost its soul to big interests, not limited to those that wish to legislate faith morality.

 

Who was getting paid half a mil for a lousy speech by Goldman Sachs?

 

They did with Alito