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The court has become to partisan...it's to the point where everyone knows exactly how the court will rule on any given issue...that's not good.
John Roberts is the only one that occasionally doesn't rule based on his political beliefs.
Here is the actual voting list, I'd suggest that there may be some perception bias going on and that the court is less political than the outside observers.
Mitch McConnell and Trump had a lot to do with this.
Within hours of Scalia’s death, McConnell made clear no Obama appointment would get a confirmation hearing just 9 months before an election. Yet he changed his mind about confirmation hearing after RGB’s death, less than 2 months before election.
The ridiculous confirmation hearing of Kavenaugh was political theatre payback.
Trump campaigned on his ability to appoint conservative justices.
Sorry no Obama NOI members or Robert Byrd types in the court
You from Zimbabwe or somewhere similar... ?? Your supposition is absolutely nuts.
Clarence Thomas criticizes judges for veering into politics
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday criticized some in the judiciary for veering into the role of legislators and politicians, saying it is not the role of judges to make policy or to base decisions on their personal feelings or religious beliefs.
It's not a lie. The SC is very far right wing compared to the majority of the country.
it is a lie. it was not packed. "Packed " means something.
What the court is, is a reflection of the electorate when the electorate elected presidents who nominated and had Senate ratification of Justices as seats became open.
It is a balled faced lie, designed to push the ignorant. This is about justifying actual PACKING the court where democrats create new seats so they can fill them with crazy leftists.
so it IS IN FACT A LIE TO SAY THE COURT HAS BEEN PACKED.
Mitch McConnell and Trump had a lot to do with this.
Within hours of Scalia’s death, McConnell made clear no Obama appointment would get a confirmation hearing just 9 months before an election. Yet he changed his mind about confirmation hearing after RGB’s death, less than 2 months before election.
The ridiculous confirmation hearing of Kavenaugh was political theatre payback.
Trump campaigned on his ability to appoint conservative justices.
What McConnell did was purely and utterly proper "Advice and Consent".
That is the role of the Senate. McConnell was the LEADER. Which means his party was in power in the Senate and by virtue of that situation, had the power to stop a president from filling an open seat. If the American people had wanted Obama to fill that seat, they would not have pushed the Senate to the right. Had there been confidence in Obama, the Senate would NOT have gone from a Super Majority Democrat, to a Majority Republican.
Blame Obama and his over reach for the the make up of the senate when Scalia died. Furthermore, had the democrats been in power in the Senate when RGB died, they would have held that seat hope. In PURELY CONSTITUTIONAL AUTORITY. But they weren't in power because the American people didn't want them making decisions like that.
The Supreme Court’s job approval has sunk to an all-time low, according to new polling taken after the court declined to block a deeply divisive Texas law banning most abortions.
Only 37 percent of registered voters said they approve of the court’s handling of its job, with 50 percent expressing disapproval in a survey released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, which has tracked the Supreme Court’s job approval since 2004. A little more than a year ago, the polling firm reported what was basically an inverse result: 52 percent of registered voters said they approved of the way the court was handling its job, 37 percent disapproved.
Well, if Texas' ignorant Fetal Heartbeat Bill or other similar legislation results in Roe v Wade being overturned, we will all soon find out exactly what it looks like.
The court leaves too many issues hanging. They need to settle some things instead of refusing to hear cases and letting things be settled by doing nothing.
Having supreme court justices trying to say the court is not political hacks sort of proves they are political hacks.
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