Despite rhetoric, GOP has supported packing state courts

[maxrandb]

https://apnews.com/article/legislature-arizona-iowa-separation-of-powers-us-supreme-court-31f4996a200be4622361603aabf92302

"Republican claims that Democrats would expand the U.S. Supreme Court to undercut the conservative majority if they win the presidency and control of Congress has a familiar ring.

It’s a tactic the GOP already has employed in recent years with state supreme courts when they have controlled all levers of state political power.

Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia have signed bills passed by GOP-dominated legislatures to expand the number of seats on their states’ respective high courts. In Iowa, the Republican governor gained greater leverage over the commission that names judicial nominees."

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It's time for Democrats to stop pussyfooting around about "court packing", point out the crap retrumplicans have been doing all over this country, and start taking action to "Unfuck the courts".

The fucking media needs to be ducking shunned.

This fucking article details how in EVERY fucking state where retrumplicans had complete control, THEY FUCKING ADDED SEATS to their Supreme Courts and other courts.

This fucking story is NOT new. Its NOT breaking!

And yet, the fucking media has the fucking gall to ask if "Dems are going to expand the court", as if its some kind of unprecedented fucking thing.

[Beartracks]

1. Conservatives are WAY over-represented in this country, and their impact on the courts...

... is WAY disproportional. They have most definitely and deliberately packed courts everywhere, and now have done so at the top, too.

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[maxrandb]

2. I'm not spending a fucking generation under fucking courts shaped by a FUCKING circus clown.

I want 5 Supremes added to the court within a fucking week of democrats taking power.

I want those 5 to be in their early 30s, in the mold of RGB, whose parents lived healthy lives well into their 90s.

I want all 5 new SC Nominees to appear before the judiciary, be approved out of committee, and confirmed by the Senate at the same FUCKING time.

Then, I want a number. If Donnie Dipshit got 200 judges on lower courts, I want Dems to add 200 + (200×whatever % Donnie Dipshit lost the popular vote by)

Then, I want to identify the most wingnuttiest court in the land (5th Circuit)? and just fucking eliminate the entire FUCKING court.

After that is all done, then we can begin unfucking the courts

[Beartracks]

3. I liked Bill Maher's idea to increase the size of the court but then also...

... give them all set, over-lapping terms, so that every four years, perhaps, two of them are up for retention. Do away with the lifetime nature of the appointment; do away with the Senate being a possible bottleneck (no hearing? they're automatically *in* after 2 months!); and do away with the dice-roll of having nominations by whomever just happens to be in the White House at the time of a vacancy.

It's ridiculous that court-packing by Republicans isn't called "packing," but trying to balance the courts *is* called court-packing. Um, no: that's court-balancing.

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[crickets]

4. K&R for the post and the discussion.

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. K&R