PoliTalker (10-26-2020), ThatOwlWoman (10-27-2020)
Simple. Merritt Garland was legitimately nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court, but the Senate failed to even consider his nomination. In order to correct that, a seat should be added to the Supreme Court and Garland should be considered by the Senate for that open seat, or the person who filled that seat should be removed from the court. Since there is no reason to remove Gorsuch, we'll just have to add one more extra seat that will be appointed by President Biden. Done. No court packing necessary. The balance is restored, conservatives still have a 6-5 majority (it should actually be 5-4 at this point).
Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer should make this happen.
Discuss.
PoliTalker (10-26-2020), ThatOwlWoman (10-27-2020)
PoliTalker (10-26-2020), Tacomaman (10-26-2020)
Correct. Here is my justification. The Senate failed to do their constitutional duty and consider Garlands nomination. Therefore anything that subsequently occurred (i.e. the Gorsuch appointment) was fruit of the poison tree. Trump got a free pick. We make that up by giving Biden a free pick. And then we consider the Garland nomination. Barrett, as much as I hated the process, was nominated and confirmed following the constitutional process. So filling that seat was a legitimate exercise. But Garland/Gorsuch is not, and that should be corrected.
I disagree with that. I think it's important that we have a body that will thoughtfully evaluate laws passed (especially by STATE legislatures BTW) that may run afoul of the Constitution. A Democratic Congress isn't enough to prevent abridgement of Constitutional protections. They can do absolutely nothing about an archaic voter suppression law passed in Alabama. Someone has to call the balls and strikes. We just need a process that will appoint less partisan umpires.
Have any of yiu heard of the Gracchi brothers?
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PoliTalker (10-26-2020)
Weird that a political party that has only won one single national election since the 1980s, has nonetheless been able to dominate and shape the nature of the nation's highest Court
is there a constitutional guarantee of balance between political parties?.......I think the only balance the founders were concerned with was the balance between the legislative, executive and judicial branches.....
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
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