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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf we win and they force someone onto SCOTUS we pack the Court
If we lose America deserves it.
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)It takes a two thirds vote for removal. We won't have sixty seven votes.
RockRaven
(14,958 posts)Doesn't accomplish anything directly, of course.
trueblue2007
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fierywoman
(7,683 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Expand the Appeals Courts by 45%, they are badly overworked now, expansion would speed up Justice.
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)RockRaven
(14,958 posts)financial/ethics and disciplinary practices.
IMO expanding SCOTUS is just the tip of the needed iceberg.
dalton99a
(81,451 posts)gulliver
(13,180 posts)We outnumber them. We need to win this one for RBG and ourselves. We're the majority. We decide.
Amishman
(5,555 posts)if we do it, when the republicans eventually take back power (and it will happen some day), they will pack it again and take it back over.
It means whenever a party controls congress and the white house, they get to take over the courts too. It makes one party rule even more dangerous. I think they could do even more harm with that power than we can do good.
The threat of packing the court should be enough to ensure moderate behavior out of them overall. We have seen many crossover cases with Roberts, and also with Gorsuch.
This is awful for RBG's legacy, but I think the danger is being overstated in our grief.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)Trump picks the next Supreme Court Justice anyway. Not only would the Court remain in conservative hands potentially for decade, not only would a woman's right to choose be overturned, and efforts to prevent voter suppression be quashed etc., but the clear majority American people will lose all faith in the Judicial branch of government, especially if Trump loses decisively, which I expect him to. It that firm electoral repudiation of Trump and all he stands for is then followed by Trump reshaping the Supreme Court personally, THAT would be packing the Court, especially after what happened to Garland.
Yavin4
(35,437 posts)And if it doesn't? What then? What are you going to do when Trump names Bill Barr to the SCOTUS? And the senate confirms him.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)The Hell with them we need to do what we have to do.