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It's rules for me but not for thee. This would be funny if it weren't so insane - and these guys weren't so completely hypocritically serious. Virtually every accomplishment that the Democrats can actually point to in the last forty years have been won in the Court - but when the inevitable change to a conservative court comes, well, NOW legislating from the bench is a bad thing!
And there's the issue of senators - of the MINORITY PARTY - threatening a completely separate branch of government. My guess is McConnell won't want to seek censure - but that's exactly what should happen. They are WAY over the line.
Reality, these guys aren't Roosevelt. Roberts might be influenced, however - which is why they did it. Being Chief Justice isn't a cake walk - and sometimes it's difficult to tell if you are extending a hand or bending over backwards - but he's been just wishy washy enough that these guys think they can get to him. If they succeed - well, 2020 isn't likely to go to the Democrats (it's kinda like betting on Secretariat - but way too early to know if he's gonna have colic and get scratched) and Ginsburg isn't going to get younger in the next five years. If all three of the eldest justices left for whatever reason... oooohhh.... two of those are liberal...
By 2024 would there be the public sentiment to allow a court packing scheme or something similar? Dubious. So even if the 2024 president were Democrat he'd be up against a conservative court that would be in the process of dismantling 60 years of judicial crap.
Which is part of why the Democrats are so desperate - desperate enough for minority senators to pull a crap move like this. Obamacare, gay marriage, abortion, - heck, do they even HAVE an accomplishment in the last two decades that WASN'T granted by the Court? The whole thing is a house of cards - a LOT of it hanging off the unconstitutional 1964 Civil Rights Act and the rest off of some seriously flawed legal decisions.
So, 2020 is looking more do or die for the Democrats - a second Trump term could be disastrous for their entire agenda over the last six decades. With a 2020 Democrat, they can pack the Court - maybe. At the very least they have a shot at forestalling a much greater conservative majority - and if they get very lucky, gaining a liberal majority (really unlikely, but Ginsburg could work until she's 100 and Thomas could decide golf is a better use of his time - yeah, really unlikely, unfortunately in both cases).
They literally threatened a co-equal branch of government when they aren't even the majority party and don't have the presidency - these guys are dangerously nuts!
It's rules for me but not for thee. This would be funny if it weren't so insane - and these guys weren't so completely hypocritically serious. Virtually every accomplishment that the Democrats can actually point to in the last forty years have been won in the Court - but when the inevitable change to a conservative court comes, well, NOW legislating from the bench is a bad thing!
And there's the issue of senators - of the MINORITY PARTY - threatening a completely separate branch of government. My guess is McConnell won't want to seek censure - but that's exactly what should happen. They are WAY over the line.
Reality, these guys aren't Roosevelt. Roberts might be influenced, however - which is why they did it. Being Chief Justice isn't a cake walk - and sometimes it's difficult to tell if you are extending a hand or bending over backwards - but he's been just wishy washy enough that these guys think they can get to him. If they succeed - well, 2020 isn't likely to go to the Democrats (it's kinda like betting on Secretariat - but way too early to know if he's gonna have colic and get scratched) and Ginsburg isn't going to get younger in the next five years. If all three of the eldest justices left for whatever reason... oooohhh.... two of those are liberal...
By 2024 would there be the public sentiment to allow a court packing scheme or something similar? Dubious. So even if the 2024 president were Democrat he'd be up against a conservative court that would be in the process of dismantling 60 years of judicial crap.
Which is part of why the Democrats are so desperate - desperate enough for minority senators to pull a crap move like this. Obamacare, gay marriage, abortion, - heck, do they even HAVE an accomplishment in the last two decades that WASN'T granted by the Court? The whole thing is a house of cards - a LOT of it hanging off the unconstitutional 1964 Civil Rights Act and the rest off of some seriously flawed legal decisions.
So, 2020 is looking more do or die for the Democrats - a second Trump term could be disastrous for their entire agenda over the last six decades. With a 2020 Democrat, they can pack the Court - maybe. At the very least they have a shot at forestalling a much greater conservative majority - and if they get very lucky, gaining a liberal majority (really unlikely, but Ginsburg could work until she's 100 and Thomas could decide golf is a better use of his time - yeah, really unlikely, unfortunately in both cases).
They literally threatened a co-equal branch of government when they aren't even the majority party and don't have the presidency - these guys are dangerously nuts!
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