Bigdog (04-16-2021), Doc Dutch (04-16-2021), Matt Dillon (04-16-2021)
In a 2019 interview with NPR, Ginsburg addressed the idea that has gained momentum among Democrats in recent years.
"I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges," Ginsburg said. "I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court."
DEMOCRATS TO PROPOSE LEGISLATION EXPANDING THE SUPREME COURT
Roosevelt's plan, she recalled, was for a president to be able to add a justice for every one on the court who stayed beyond the age of 70, which would have allowed him to immediately add six, bringing the roster to 15.
Ginsburg had noted that with no set number in the Constitution, the court has had as few as five and as many as 10 justices.
Ginsburg explained that expanding the Supreme Court so a president could load the bench with like-minded jurists would politicize the high court and erode its independence."Nine seems to be a good number, and it’s been that way for a long time," she observed.
GOP REPS ANNOUNCE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO KEEP SUPREME COURT AT 9 'BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE'
"If anything would make the court appear partisan it would be that," she said. "One side saying when we’re in power we’re going to enlarge the number of judges so we’ll have more people who will vote the way we want them to. So I am not at all in favor of that solution to what I see as a temporary situation."
Justice Stephen Breyer, one of the current liberals on the Supreme Court, also argued against court-packing when addressing Harvard Law School earlier this month.
"What I’m trying to do is to make those whose instincts may favor important structural change or other similar institutional changes such as forms of court-packing to think long and hard before they embody those changes in law," Breyer said.
Breyer cautioned that such a move could damage the public's trust in the court., which "is guided by legal principle, not politics."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fla...-court-packing
Bigdog (04-16-2021), Doc Dutch (04-16-2021), Matt Dillon (04-16-2021)
Bigdog (04-16-2021)
Biden is using the commission as a stalking horse before he supports packing
Bigdog (04-16-2021)
This isn't going anywhere. Pelosi won't bring it up.
"Pelosi has "no plans" to bring bill expanding Supreme Court to House floor"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme...i-house-floor/
Matt Dillon (04-16-2021)
Jack (04-15-2021)
besides, who gives a fuck what Ginsburg thinks about anything
you were all about "respecting Ginsburg" wishes when she was recently dead. such a hypocrite
Honor Her Wish': Trump Met With Boos As He Pays Respects To Ruth Bader Ginsburg
https://www.npr.org/sections/death-o...ts-to-ginsburg
Demonstrators standing across the street from the court booed Trump as he emerged from the building and then began chanting at him to honor Ginsburg's dying wish that she not be replaced "until a new president is installed."
BLUEXITA Modest Proposal For Separating Blue States From Red
Dear Red-State Trump Voter,
Let’s face it, guys: We’re done.
It is a tragedy that so much of the work that so many men and women toiled at for so long to make this a better country, and a better world, has been thrown away, leaving us all in such needless peril.
This is why our separation in all but name is necessary.
https://newrepublic.com/article/1409...mp-red-america
Bigdog (04-16-2021)
So what. She was not a politician. It is not her field. Trump has put a ton of corporate right-wing Christian fanatics in court seats across the nation. Not him exactly, he did what the far-right Federalist society demanded. Because the opportunity and desire to pack the courts were there, Mcconnell went full bore.
So the Dems should just let it go? Mcconnell prevented Obama from seating lots of federal judges and a couple of Supremes. The Dems should just lay down? Bullshit. The Dems have respected the rules and history while the repugs laughed. Let's make the reds pay.
Jack (04-15-2021)
Nancy knows if the House votes on a SCOTUS bill now it would nullify Biden's commission studying a SCOTUS expansion, totally conflict with WH actions
but the Biden commission will recommend it, she's playing these dolts like a cheap violin
Jack (04-15-2021)
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hojo speaks ... "who is ginsberg?"
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