Stuffing Supreme Court

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  1. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    But Trump does not.
     
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    Entire law libraries are about to plummet from the sky onto those dolts presuming no retribution. Maybe some judge will find a way to hold individuals responsible for legal fees and not Congress as a whole. Legal carnage will ensue. They're all millionaires. Let them live like us for a while.
     
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    I was going to use "enumerated" but was unsure if that precise usage applied to my context.

    Howzabout REQUIRED.

    Pesky Constitution. Just a piece of paper if it ain't goin' libs' way.
     
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    Really? You need to relax, big guy. Here!

     
  5. Lee Atwater

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    It has already been established that your position is in error.
     
  6. Gatewood

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    You mean like RBG was determined to do?
    Wishful thinking on their part, I suppose. But in truth it seems that very few of them ever really paid attention in Civics 101 courses.
     
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    In your mind "established" equates to .... what again?

    The Constitution requires the President to nominate. Precedent amply exists to show he's not inventing law.

    The Constitution was emended on length of time allowed for the Senate to take action. No matter what Trump does the Senate can ice the thing until after he's gone or until he starts breathing down their necks following what I contend will be his reelection.

    Even one Democrat voting for the nominee and with Pence riding shotgun that buckboard will thunder to victory and no horse need lose a shoe. That assumes Murkowski and Collins remain the treacherous hags they have always been.

    Should either repent, the Dem who sees the light won't be needed in a straight-up partisan vote. Trump will trot to triumph. Huzzah! America made great again.
     
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    You ought to see the regulations on falconry.
     
  9. quiller

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    I love it that God Himself called her home and prevented her from dying on Biden's watch.

    Maybe you personally aren't big on signs from above, but that one's a corker.
     
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    :eekeyes: Well, those damn things are killers, yes? Pluck eyes out of babies, veins out of grandmas, and, and....

    ...Sorry. De debbil made me say it..... I have GOT to stop watching Hammer films!
     
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    FDR didn't try it. He threatened to do it. That scared the court to rule into ruling in his favor.
     
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    Do you think the constitution requires 9 justices on the Supreme Court? Hell, the constitution doesn't even give the Supreme Court final say over the meaning of the constitution.
     
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    Then in the absence of contrary established law, the chief executive has that say, through executive orders.

    It's Trump's watch and Trump's legal requirement meaning Trump's nonpartisan DUTY to obey. Get the nomination out there. It won't be the only thing we'll argue about long into 2025 when Trump finally leaves, America stronger for the experience.

    Obama didn't end the Afghan war, folks. He botched mideast peace and sided with the muslims over Israel. Bowed to foreign tyrants. Really not very classy at all. Trump? He'll be like Reagan, appreciated decades later for what he did.

    Now we just help keep him doing it. And wait for Biden at the debates.
     
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    It's certainly screwed up the Dem Party's "2020 is ALL about Covid-19 and racism!" propaganda in which their politically loyal media outlets direct and control the narrative.
     
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    That would have collapsed anyway at the first debate. Biden's debilitation would control the media because too many people would see for themselves what clever editing or selective use of footage cannot conceal.

    Did it HELP break the focus? Abso-bloody-lutely. That and so few Biden sightings or campaign crowds. The enthusiam isn't there and COVID separation cannot be blamed. No real crowds are turning out. For Trump they are.
     
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    I don’t see anything in the constitution that stipulates the quantity of judges on the bench.
     
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    What I said had nothing to do with the number of justices on the supreme court.
     
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    I don't see anything at all unconstitutional. A bad idea, yeah. But nothing that violates the current Constitution.
     
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    Never said it did.
     
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    It has to clear both houses and be signed by the POTUS like any other law (or passed and the veto overriden). It won't happen though. The democrats threatening things just reminds people why they don't like them. They are playing to their base at the expense of swing voters with this pack the court, impeach the president crap.
     
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    Because there is nothing there doing that.
     
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    If Trump does this and loses the election and the Senate goes Dem?

    You bet there will be a court expansion

    They'd be hard pressed to not make DC AND PR states as well
     
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    And run the risk of Republican retaliation when they retake the Senate and presidency? Aren't you taking one hell of a risk?
     
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    PR generally votes against becoming a state. They like the 1 foot in and 1 foot out status. The Senate may end up in a 50/50 putting the VP as the deciding vote assuming they change the rules make to majority rules instead of the 60 vote rule
     
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    And Dems are already crafting legislation putting power back in the hands of Congress and curbing the Executive.
     

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