Balancing the Supreme Court

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[Concart]

It's MERRICK, you low information dipshit.

No correction necessary the Constitution spells this out clearly enough for even you to understand. The President nominates, The Senate confirms. Period, end of story. The Constitution says nothing about a "balanced court".

And please stop lying about a "6-3" court. Roberts votes with you leftist scumbags. We now have a 5-4 SCOTUS. Sounds pretty "balanced" to me. In fact, it's the definition of balanced.

Thanks spelling nazi.

[Doc Dutch]

I'm still waiting for you to back up your claims so go fuck yourself

You already have proven it, but please, please, please keep claiming you haven't. I'm enjoying it.

[Doc Dutch]

Thanks spelling nazi.

That's another Lesion Nazi. That boy really needs a better hobby.

[Yakuda]

You already have proven it, but please, please, please keep claiming you haven't. I'm enjoying it.

Prove what you claim I said. Nobody gives a fuck what goes on inside that coconut you call a brain

[Yakuda]

That's another Lesion Nazi. That boy really needs a better hobby.

Youre just like your butt buddy concart nothing useful to add.

[Doc Dutch]

You do not have to amend the constitution to change the size of the court. So they certainly could do this.

Correct. What do they need? What's to stop a Republican Congress from doing the same in 2022 or 2024?

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

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.

nothing inappropriate has happened here. you're a sore loser.

[Doc Dutch]

Prove what you claim I said. Nobody gives a fuck what goes on inside that coconut you call a brain

QED

Youre just like your butt buddy concart nothing useful to add.

Then quit whining like a Beta male Incel and ignore me.

[Concart]

Correct. What do they need? What's to stop a Republican Congress from doing the same in 2022 or 2024?

Absolutely nothing. That said, with this current group of Republican Senators, they might do it anyway, whether Democrats did it or not. I just fail to see what rationale they would put forward.

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

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.

you're an idiot.

[Concart]

nothing inappropriate has happened here. you're a sore loser.

I disagree. Senate failed to do their constitutional duty. I guess you don't much care about the Constitution unless it supports your partisan view. I get it.

[Celticguy]

It's a political tool. "Will of the People". What they are refusing to admit is that the Constitution is the "Will of the People". They can't change the Electoral College, so they put on pink pussy hats, break out their cardboard signs and bitch about it....as is their right.

The problem is if anyone cares about their protests. I don't. It won't change anything. Better to focus on what can be changed as the Serenity prayer advises.

Agreed.
They are stuck on wanting what they want and grasping for rationalizations. Thats just too much "me" and not enough "we".

[archives]

With your only argument being, "It's not fair trump got to pick 3".

The argument is that if the Court becomes overtly partisan political it needs to be checked, and the easiest avenue to do that would be adding Justices, perfectly legal and not unconstitutional. Keep in mind that these last three Justices were approved with only a majority vote, the minority who have always had a say in such an important decision, purposely to avoid a partisan choice, was eliminated