Released Supreme Court Commission discussion materials upsets the left
Joe Biden set up a commission to review the US Supreme Court with the view of making updates. One of the things expected from this commission was the potential to add justices. The released discussion materials, from the commission, does not suggest that the left will get this wish. They feel that if more progressive judges are added to the court, balance and integrity would be restored to our judicial system.
From Fox News:
“We have said since the Commission’s beginning that for the Commission to provide a meaningful contribution to restoring the legitimacy of our judiciary, it needs to advance a specific list of Supreme Court reforms that can be acted upon in the near term,” American Constitution Society President Russ Feingold said in a statement. “The discussion materials released today unfortunately fail to match the urgency of the situation and do not lay out a solution to the legitimacy crisis before us.”
The American Constitution Society is the left-leaning counterpart to the libertarian and conservative Federalist Society. Feingold added that the commission should have pushed for several options “to remedy the Right’s packing of the Court,” among other things.
Feingold said the lack of support for such proposals will result in the Supreme Court “continuing to strip away our constitutional rights and undermine our democratic legitimacy as a country.”
The term court-packing was coined when former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed adding several justices to the Supreme Court because he was frustrated with the results of the court’s rulings. Many Democrats are proposing that same thing now. In some cases, Democrats also use the term court-packing to refer to political hardball tactics used by Republicans during standard judicial confirmations without actually expanding the number of justices — as Feingold did in his statement.
The White House has emphasized that the documents the commission released Thursday were only discussion materials, not even a draft of a final report. The commission still has some time to produce its final document. It is also notably tasked not with making recommendations but with summarizing the debate around court reform and some potential actions Congress or the White House could take on the issue.
Fox News has the article here.
Category: Liberals suck
Dems, “ If SCOTUS rules the way we want, it’s functioning exactly how it should. However, if SCOTUS rules any other way, we need to pack the court, remove anyone not to the left of Saul Alinsky and threaten all of the justices m.
Packing SCOTUS is a “bonehead idea” and a “terrible, terrible mistake.”
At least that’s what Senator Joe opined back in 1983.
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To be fair, you can’t expect Joe to remember what he said 38 years ago. He don’t remember that he pissed his pants 38 minutes ago.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t adding Justices to the Court require an Amendment to the Constitution? And isn’t the function of the SCOTUS to interpret the Constitution?
For the demonrats, old ideas are new again? Guess their next step is modifying the 13th Amendment to include enslaving all of “We, The People”.
Nope. Number of SCOTUS justices is set by Congress. It’s the same with all the federal courts actually, which is why there are some district courts of appeals with dozens of judges.
Yep, FDR tried pulling the same stunt…
And it did not work.
The ninja family are one of the few who detested FDR, the Kennedys (Joe Kennedy, JFK, RFK, a Murderer name Ted Kennedy..) and are starting to NOT care for the Bush Family..
So… which constitutional rights were stripped away by the current court?
Asking for a friend.
Apparently, all women and all members of the LGBTQ etcetera were stripped of their rights by the eebil orange man. However… no one has ever actually enunciated which particular rights were lost. We just have to accept it at face value.
None were lost, but the court keeps finding new ones made from whole cloth.
Such as abortion.
The Right to Party, established in the landmark case of Beastie Boys vs. New York (1987.)
That was Sotomayor not Kavanaugh that wrote the opinion striking that one. She was always a big stick in the mud.
Brett was always about the party and rocking on.