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Adding extra justices to the bench in order to control the outcome of cases would destroy the entire branch of government by removing their check on the legislative branch.
If you set the precedent that you can just add justices to courts every time you need a certain ruling, why wouldn't you do that to every court so that there would be no de facto oversight at all? Once you start down that road, it'll be too late by the time you realize what a terrible place it leads to.
Agree.
In 2014 Obama packed the DC Circuit court to defeat challenges to his ACA. This was made possible by Harry Reid removing the Senate filibuster for judicial nominees. Obama hand-packed Pillard, Millet, Wilkins.
These types of Democrat tactics have long term consequences. It destabilized our governmental structure.
Ilhan Omar says "we have the Senate, the House, and the Presidency, we should stop negotiating and end the filibuster". This is Muammar Quaddafi type thinking. Omar is not well educated, she does not understand the government structure designed by the Founding Fathers. And she's not the only Democrat pushing for a banana republic style power grab.
Adding extra justices to the bench in order to control the outcome of cases would destroy the entire branch of government by removing their check on the legislative branch.
If you set the precedent that you can just add justices to courts every time you need a certain ruling, why wouldn't you do that to every court so that there would be no de facto oversight at all? Once you start down that road, it'll be too late by the time you realize what a terrible place it leads to.
In my post I mentioned this and wondered if that was what you are referencing. And as I noted there, I disagree with it. But that does not impact the actual structure of the system and is only applicable to the Supreme Court, which hears a tiny, tiny number of appeals. I was wonderign if there was something other than this impacting courts generally that I may have missed. I'm glad to hear there apparently isn't.
This is why it was so important to bet MORE repub nominated judges on the courts.
"The appellate judge who wrote the majority opinion is Amul Thapar. He made history when, in 2008, he became the first-ever South Asian judge appointed to the U.S. federal bench after being selected by then-President George W. Bush."
President Trump put over 200 NEW judges on the courts.
The dem control over the courts is dead for now, and I believe we will see a LOT MORE of the dems non-Constitutional "junk" overturned.
The nutty 9th Circus likely would have ruled the other way.
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"[Daniel] Bress’s confirmation gives [President] Trump his seventh judge on the 9th Circuit, altering the historically liberal bench." #MAGA#KAG#TrumpPence2020
Adding extra justices to the bench in order to control the outcome of cases would destroy the entire branch of government by removing their check on the legislative branch.
If you set the precedent that you can just add justices to courts every time you need a certain ruling, why wouldn't you do that to every court so that there would be no de facto oversight at all? Once you start down that road, it'll be too late by the time you realize what a terrible place it leads to.
"Adding extra justices to the bench"
FDR tried it and LOST. Even though by the end of his presidency, EVERY judge on the SC was one of HIS nominees.
Which is why so many of his Socialist programs got passed.
When biden was Senator it was brought up and joe talked AGAINST it.
NOW, he is for it!
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