"What if there were five justices selected by Democrats," presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke explored at a recent Iowa campaign stop, "Five justices selected by Republicans, and those ten then pick five more justices independent of those who picked the first ten?".
Beto, meet FDR. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried something similar with the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, which would have added six new justices to the nine-justice U.S. Supreme Court.
You will remember that months ago he made a splash telling Democrats that when Republicans "Go low," Democrats should "Kick them."
Despite the obviousness of this group-interested power grab, "Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand ... would not rule out expanding the Supreme Court if elected president," Politico reported.
There is now, unmistakably, a conservative majority, with those five justices chosen by Republican presidents against four liberal justices chosen by Democrats.
The number of justices on the High Court has been set at nine for a century and a half.
We would then witness a Supreme Court whiplashed, tit-for-tat, between one partisan political master or the other.
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2019/03/24/meet-the-democrats-who-want-to-pack-the-supreme-court-n2543606
Beto, meet FDR. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried something similar with the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, which would have added six new justices to the nine-justice U.S. Supreme Court.
You will remember that months ago he made a splash telling Democrats that when Republicans "Go low," Democrats should "Kick them."
Despite the obviousness of this group-interested power grab, "Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand ... would not rule out expanding the Supreme Court if elected president," Politico reported.
There is now, unmistakably, a conservative majority, with those five justices chosen by Republican presidents against four liberal justices chosen by Democrats.
The number of justices on the High Court has been set at nine for a century and a half.
We would then witness a Supreme Court whiplashed, tit-for-tat, between one partisan political master or the other.
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2019/03/24/meet-the-democrats-who-want-to-pack-the-supreme-court-n2543606
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