Is it time to restore the Supreme Court to legitimacy?

geezus Lou, step away from the keyboard. go outside and take a walk.

 

Congress has the constitutional power to expand the court. This Court needs to be reformed after 3 recent members of it basically lied to Congress and Americans.

Expand it and reform it (18-year term limit for example). The only way this can be done is Dem win a super majority or a big enough majority that they can do away with the filibuster.

 

I've been leery of refoming of the court but I think recent moves show that the court is clearly out of step with the majority of the country. I would support an 18 year term limit for Justices.

Just to note any changes still need to get over the Senate vote and it's doubtful changes to the court will even get to a 51 Senate majority in the current Senate. I know a lot of people hate hearing this but it still comes down to voting and winning elections.

 

Wow lol.

 

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Just FWIW.

 

The court should be expanded to 13 to match the number of federal circuit courts. Not because Trump got 3 picks, two of which were clearly unjust.

 

If you were to expand the court (there really should be more district and appeals courts so things don't take as long), the only non-partisan way to do it would be to pass the law now, but say the 2024 President picks 2 people, and the 2028 President picks 2 people. That leaves it up to the people to decide how the court expands.

 

To be fair it's not Lou's first account. I don't know on O's

 

Republicans did ruin the Supreme Court by blocking Obama from nominating a replacement about 11 months before the 2016election while rushing a pick for Trump a month before the 2020 election. Neither Gorsuch nor Barrett should be on the court. But they are now for life. No recourse.

 

I don’t think packing a court is how you legitimize it. Pretty much the opposite. If Republicans were talking about this, Democrats would be apoplectic.

 

I think the American experiment is over. At least post-World War II federalism. We are stuck with justices using originalist interpretations from a document from when blacks were considered chattel, Indians were savages to be conquered, and only land owning white men mattered. Slavery took a civil war, the Indians were pushed onto reservations, and the country needed amendments to let blacks and women vote while preserving the felon loophole.

We should get an amendment limiting a justice to 12 years.

 

I just don't think it's a good look for Democrats to be whiny ass b****es stomping the floors like petulant children every time they don't get their way.



that's what Trump is for

 

Triggered to the point of calling the good American people whiney ass b****es, you hate to see it.

 

You're a funny guy. Think game threads. I watch games and participate in game threads. Don't know what that other dude's problem is

 

People are genuinely upset about what is viewed by many as a human right, no longer being federally protected in this country.

I get you are in NYK and if say, your daughter ever needed that option she would have it, but a lot of us live in Texas where the lives of our loved ones can be deeply affected by this. People here are going to be upset, it's interesting that the reactions are what seem to mostly bother you here but to each his own.

I don't know who's the whinier ass b**** personally, the people b****ing or the people b****ing about people b****ing. The second might be worth double mcbitch ass points

 

I get that

 

nice addition

 

Do you lol


I always edit and add to my post btw, a bad habit when replying to quick fingers like yours


Os is really just furious about that no hitter we did against the Yankees yesterday, have some compassion fellas