RBG has passed away

Horace

where does court packing end? Is there an upper limit in the constitution? I should google it.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Horace said in RBG has passed away:

Is there an upper limit in the constitution?

There is not.

I suggest 350MM members.

Democracy, FTW!

Jolly

@Loki said in RBG has passed away:

@George-K said in RBG has passed away:

Those gushing over the hypocrisy card will soon discover that Biden is already on record as strongly opposing packing the court.

This is the guy who just lost his Senate primary, isn't he?

Axtremus

@George-K said in RBG has passed away:

@Horace said in RBG has passed away:

Is there an upper limit in the constitution?

There is not.

I suggest 350MM members.

Democracy, FTW!

[tangent] Before the Internet access is ubiquitous, there were logistical arguments to favor representative democracy over direct democracy; now it's down to our own shortcomings. [/tangent]

Copper

You want to nominate judges? Win the election - you get 4 years to nominate them - not 3.5 years, 4 years.

You want to block the nominations? Control the senate.

It's not that complicated.

Copper

@George-K said in RBG has passed away:

So if he doesn't hold a vote, then you won't attempt to pack the court.

Is that it?

You want to put that in writing?

Jolly

Well, supposedly Trump talked to Mitch. It's looking like Barrett or Lagoa...

jon-nyc

Seemed like he wanted to pick Barrett last time then remembered RBG would probably die on his watch so he put her aside.

jon-nyc

Nice little roundup here.

2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”
2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”
2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”
2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”
2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”
2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”
2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”
2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”
2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”
2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”
2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
Mitch McConnell, March 2016

LuFins Dad

More sound and fury signifying nothing.

jon-nyc

True, we all knew they were lying at the time. It’s just kind of funny to rub their noses in it.

Jolly

Ever since The Lying of the Senate invented borking and Dingy Harry changed the rules, it's dog eat dog.

Play by the rules and play to win.

Everything else doesn't matter much.

Loki

@jon-nyc said in RBG has passed away:

True, we all knew they were lying at the time. It’s just kind of funny to rub their noses in it.

Here is how Biden feels about packing the court, in case it ever comes up again, say Sept 29...

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/15/joe-biden-dismisses-supreme-court-packing-debate/

jon-nyc

Yep. As I’ve said for months now, this would be the real cost of pushing through a candidate in a lame duck session.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@jon-nyc said in RBG has passed away:

kind of funny to rub their noses in it.

Isn't it though....

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@George-K said in RBG has passed away:

Alexander? I dunno.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/09/20/heres-what-sen-lamar-alexander-said-about-trumps-scotus-vacancy-n2576546

"No one should be surprised that a Republican Senate majority would vote on a Republican President’s Supreme Court nomination, even during a presidential election year. The Constitution gives senators the power to do it," Sen. Alexander said in a statement.

"The voters who elected them expect it. Going back to George Washington, the Senate has confirmed many nominees to the Supreme Court during a presidential election year," Alexander continued. "It has refused to confirm several when the President and Senate majority were of different parties. Senator McConnell is only doing what Democrat leaders have said they would do if the shoe were on the other foot."