President Biden said himself he does NOT believe in packing the court as whoever won would just expand it again.
It does NOT matter anyway as Supreme court Justices are supposed to be APOLITICAL and they go by LAWS as dictated by the Constitution and not any Political beliefs, often they have to go against what they would like to do as it would be inconsitant with Laws of the Constitution.
Your incorrect assumption is that Biden is actually making presidential decisions. Someone else is pulling the strings...Susan Rice, Obama, "Dr" Jill, Hunter?
Congress is reluctant to expand the court unless the majority party believes the other party will never be in the majority. Otherwise, the first expansion (by, say, Democrats) would be to add 4 new justices to make a 7-6 majority. But the next time the other party is in charge (say, Republicans) 4 or more new justices would be added to recoup the majority on the court. By the time we get to 17 or more justices, who knows how the court would function. That's not to say the Democrats won't try it anyway.
(By the way) This could also happen with Congress. There is no constitutional provision limiting the number of members of Congress. Democrats are under-represented (because they control too many lopsided districts). If only those voters could be spread out over more districts, a greater proportion of Congress could be made Democrat. A similar argument holds for the way presidential electors are distributed among the states - going for a direct popular vote would unlock the potential of millions of excess Democrat votes in states like California and New York.
President Biden said himself he does NOT believe in packing the court as whoever won would just expand it again.
It does NOT matter anyway as Supreme court Justices are supposed to be APOLITICAL and they go by LAWS as dictated by the Constitution and not any Political beliefs, often they have to go against what they would like to do as it would be inconsitant with Laws of the Constitution.
Your incorrect assumption is that Biden is actually making presidential decisions. Someone else is pulling the strings...Susan Rice, Obama, "Dr" Jill, Hunter?
I am not Incorrect, Biden is THEE Man in Charge CURRENTLY, If we have a Nuclear War Biden decides who goes on the Doomsday Plane, President Biden will allow Jill And Hunter and other Family Members (Because they are Family) and Personal Friends on The Plane, and Biden would likely tell Susan Rice and Obama, sorry there is no room for you. Oh Yeah Biden also can Launch Nukes to start The Nuclear War, but he almost certainly wont. The People Voted in 2020 that Biden be THEE MAN to Lead and make The Important Decisions concerning The USA. And unnless he volunteers to step down he has that power until January 20th 2025 or 2029 if the people decide they want him as our leader for 4 more years. IT IS THEE RULE.
Anyway I saw Nancy Pelosi and Others say Biden's difficulty was because of a COLD, NEWSFLASH Colds go away in a few days. We have all had colds right. For Biden to have Dementia, Maybe it is Pugilistic Dementia from Biden's days as a Street Hardened Thug from the Streets Of Scranton, Pennsylvania fighting the Corn Pops of The World in Gang Fights everyday after school, Biden was NOT born with a Silver Spoon in his Mouth Biden was born with a Saturday Night Special aimed at his Temple and a Shining Switch Blade at his Throat, He not only survived he thrived being in life and death situations so many times, he will overcome this cold as well.
Congress is reluctant to expand the court unless the majority party believes the other party will never be in the majority. Otherwise, the first expansion (by, say, Democrats) would be to add 4 new justices to make a 7-6 majority. But the next time the other party is in charge (say, Republicans) 4 or more new justices would be added to recoup the majority on the court. By the time we get to 17 or more justices, who knows how the court would function. That's not to say the Democrats won't try it anyway.
(By the way) This could also happen with Congress. There is no constitutional provision limiting the number of members of Congress. Democrats are under-represented (because they control too many lopsided districts). If only those voters could be spread out over more districts, a greater proportion of Congress could be made Democrat. A similar argument holds for the way presidential electors are distributed among the states - going for a direct popular vote would unlock the potential of millions of excess Democrat votes in states like California and New York.
Democrats already declared it was "RACIST" to ask about citizenship on the US census. Why? So the 10 MILLION+ illegals they let in their open border can all be counted and used to gain more representation in congress.
Democrats are talking about adding 2 more states to the union. Why? So they can have 4 new senators from deep deep blue states that will rubber stamp any idiotic legislation they want.
Congress is reluctant to expand the court unless the majority party believes the other party will never be in the majority. Otherwise, the first expansion (by, say, Democrats) would be to add 4 new justices to make a 7-6 majority. But the next time the other party is in charge (say, Republicans) 4 or more new justices would be added to recoup the majority on the court. By the time we get to 17 or more justices, who knows how the court would function. That's not to say the Democrats won't try it anyway.
(By the way) This could also happen with Congress. There is no constitutional provision limiting the number of members of Congress. Democrats are under-represented (because they control too many lopsided districts). If only those voters could be spread out over more districts, a greater proportion of Congress could be made Democrat. A similar argument holds for the way presidential electors are distributed among the states - going for a direct popular vote would unlock the potential of millions of excess Democrat votes in states like California and New York.
Democrats already declared it was "RACIST" to ask about citizenship on the US census. Why? So the 10 MILLION+ illegals they let in their open border can all be counted and used to gain more representation in congress.
Democrats are talking about adding 2 more states to the union. Why? So they can have 4 new senators from deep deep blue states that will rubber stamp any idiotic legislation they want.
Don't forget lowering the voting age, trying to lower the voting age to SIXTEEN, and giving ex-felons the vote. I assume surferboy knows this, but they already are trying to make it a popular vote for president. You know, because the founders were totally not modern and stuff and weren't purposely trying to avoid certain pitfalls. All that matters to some of these people is that the immediate outcome they want happens. They don't care about the country's institutions.
Hmmm... Expanding the SC and packing it with liberals seems contrary to rule of law. Anyone concerned about liberals rush to throw out the US Constitution in their current panic?
Hmmm... Expanding the SC and packing it with liberals seems contrary to rule of law. Anyone concerned about liberals rush to throw out the US Constitution in their current panic?
The 6-3 conservative Supreme Court - liberals want to pack it since the current makeup doesn't favor them.
Dems winning the popular vote and losing the Electoral College - Liberals : do away with the Electoral College.
Liberals don't care about the Constitution - they just want more power for themselves.
While the Supreme Court was established by Article III of the U.S. Constitution, the size, structure and functioning of the Court was left to Congress to outline in a series of Judiciary Acts. Throughout U.S. history, there have been seven changes to the number of justices sitting on the Supreme Court, the last of which settled at nine justices in 1869 to reflect the nine circuit courts at the time. (There are now thirteen federal circuit courts.)
Remember when the Republicans ran against Biden in 2020, claiming he was going to "expand and pack the court" if he won and the Dems had the House and Senate? Well, the Dems didn't do that. They also didn't make Puerto Rico and Guam states, nor did they award Senators to D.C.
Funny how the Republicans scare the populace with things the Dems won't do (Death Panels, "kill your grandma" and "round up all the guns and take them away"), while failing to actually do the things they claim they WILL do themselves (build a wall that Mexico will pay for, "Repeal and Replace Obamacare").
Republicans did claim that the Democrats would expand the Supreme Court during the lead up to the 2020 because several high ranking Democrat politicians said that they wanted to expand the Supreme Court at that time. It wasn’t an absurd lie that Republican politicians made up. Biden even created a in 2021 to investigate how to expand the Supreme Court!
President Joe Biden announced the formation of a commission last week to study the court's structure, including the number of justices and their length of service.
Hmmm... Expanding the SC and packing it with liberals seems contrary to rule of law. Anyone concerned about liberals rush to throw out the US Constitution in their current panic?
The 6-3 conservative Supreme Court - liberals want to pack it since the current makeup doesn't favor them.
Dems winning the popular vote and losing the Electoral College - Liberals : do away with the Electoral College.
Liberals don't care about the Constitution - they just want more power for themselves.
Idiot conservatives like you are the problem.
Both things the Dems wanted because they align with DEMOCRACY. It’s not hard to understand.
How is giving the president unchecked power good? We all know Dem president respect the office and Republican don’t
That's actually funny. Because most legal commentators say that about the SCOTUS because of its right wing majority. Political activists for the right pretending to be judges.
Leftist legal commentators.
You are so deep in the cult you can't even realize it.
You're like a fish that thinks he isn't wet because he's never even been exposed to the opposite.
The idiot right-wing here - and they are always supremely dim - continue to score an own goal. By passionately approving of what the SCOTUS has done they show it is a partisan right-wing court. In a true democracy it would have no place.
According to the Supreme Court the President can do whatever he wants. He suggests he gets rid of the Supreme Court and throws Trump in prison where he belongs.
Liberals in spring 2024: we must respect the judicial process
Liberals today: we need to impeach the Supreme Court, burn the system down
Have you actually read the decision? It completely ignores all history and precedent
In fact the most scathing dissenting opinion comes form the Trump appointed conservative Barrett. She notes that the constitution explicity states the president can be charged for treason but this new ruling seems to imply that prosecutors could not do so.
Originalist scholars have been some of the loudest critics of this.
Also serious alarm needs to be raised that a private organization has hijacked the supreme court. The high up leadership of Fed Soc, especially Leonard Leo are shady AF and anyone who cares about democracy should be concerned about about shawdowy billionaires who's fortunes come from mystery pulling the string of our most powerful institutions. There's cleary corruption behind blatanly horrible decisions like this and it's spooky.
Also you don't know liberals if you're actually worried at all they'll do anything about this lol
You have a court in which one judge flies a Trump flag outside his home, another lives off donations from billionaires, and the head ensures a convicted criminal and insurrectionist has every chance of regaining power and who has pledged to be a "dictator". Welcome to your very own banana republic.
Hmmm... Expanding the SC and packing it with liberals seems contrary to rule of law. Anyone concerned about liberals rush to throw out the US Constitution in their current panic?
Clearly then you haven't actually read the US constitution which doesn't prescribe any number of justices. We've had as many as 10 and as little as 5 before.
You also probably don't know history that well. Lincoln did pack the court and FDR wanted to in the 1930s.
What's sad is that people like you will let partisanship utterly blind you. Barrett, a conservative, actually had the strongest dissenting opinion here. This opinion is contrary to the constitution itself and only ignorance can blind one from the clear corruption going on.
Americans have been so depoliticized they can't see their actual enemy in plain sight. Whatever happens this election you lose. It's a pick of croynism more favoring the likes of Bill Gates or croynism more favoring the likes of the Koch family. Our instituions have been stolen and SCOTUS is the most blatantly obvious example with, and I wish I was making this up because it is obsurd a billionaire with a dubious secretive fortune being the puppet master pulling the strings... Roberts is not doing this to help you or "conservatism", it's about consolidating pwoer for the Kochs and their ilk. That should terrify you
