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. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    There were a number of cases that during FDR had to end up in the Supreme Court. As you perhaps recall it made Roosevelt very angry so he got the idea to pack the court.
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And you missed your own chance to educate me, Mr., Educator.
     
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    A disgusting claim.
     
  5. LangleyMan

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    States run by Democrats are legalizing weed. Who cares what they did or didn't do 83 years ago?
     
  6. Bluesguy

    Bluesguy Well-Known Member Donor

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    Florida has medical and Mississippi voting on it, Arkansas has medical, Oklahoma too, Idaho is legal everything as in Ohio. Do you know one of the first if not the first major national news magazine/newspaper/media to come out calling for decriminalization moving to legalization was National Review. It just did again January 2018 and in 2017 wrote

    Majority of Republicans Support Marijuana Legalization
    For the first time ever, a majority of Republicans support legalizing weed: 51 percent, a startling nine-point leap since just last year, according to Gallup. Overall support for legalized marijuana has hit 64 percent, an all-time, er, high....

    ....national review endorsed legalization back in 1996, 18 years before the editorial page of the New York Times did so, declaring, “The War on Drugs Is Lost.”
    https://www.nationalreview.com/corn...all-time-high-including-majority-republicans/

    It's not just a conservative/liberal, Democrat/Republican thingy.
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Who cares you bellow
    You mean Democrats do not support their own laws?
     
  8. LangleyMan

    LangleyMan Well-Known Member

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    And?
    Because liberals are leading the charge to legalize marijuana in 2020.
    Pffft. I'm not following you down that rabbit hole.
    All this information is readily available on the internet.
    Democrats use the tax revenue angle to sell legalization. I doubt they much care about the taxes.
     
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    Washington, Oregon, California legalized pot.
    Maybe we can end the insane "war on drugs."
     
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    The NRA was the important issue.
     
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    Oh, darn. :roll: :roll:
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Oh darn. :roll::roll:
     
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    In your own mind, are all drugs like Pot?

    Can you say with a straight face nobody has died due to the use of Heroin or Crack?
     
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    They're supposed to support 80-year-old laws? Egads. :rolleyes:
     
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    I know very well that in CA the reason the Pot law passed was promises made to tax the plant.

    Am I a liberal because I personally supported Pot use in CA?

    Am I a Liberal because I supported same sex unions?

    I do not recognize Democrats as =LIBERALS. Change my mind.
     
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    I'm just sure you have a point.
     
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    I would say it would be a start if they supported their own laws.
     
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    Comments like that make me very suspicious you actually taught school courses.
     
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    What I said.
    No.
    No.
    What's in it for me?
     
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    Absurd to suggest they should support 80-year-old laws.
     
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    Hohhhh-Kayyyyy... Up is down, backwards is forward.
     
  22. LangleyMan

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    Uh huh.
     
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    Nixon proved politicians have no business setting drug policy.

    Set up a panel of Docs from a variety of specialties, and have them set policy.
     
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    You are picking on the wrong past president.

    Look no further than Democrats. Dig deeper. They created the bulk of drug laws.
     
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    Show a minimum level of teaching skills. Do not tell me, persuade me.

    So far your uh huh is your best reply to my facts that it is Democrats that crafted the laws you now want revoked. What has Nancy done that you are aware of to revoke drug laws? You protest the drug laws are old. So is the ruling covering Abortion. Is this the standard you use on all matters or just those you can't explain well at all?
     

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