1/ Unacceptable. "I'll tell you my position on packing the Supreme Court the day after the election." Nope. Jurists from Charles Evans Hughes to Ruth Bader Ginsburg have warned that court packing imperils the independence of the judiciary. They're right. This is a big deal.https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1314294951115722754 …
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6/ The reason that Roosevelt's court-packing plan failed is that everyone--Democrats as well as Republicans--knew that his ostensible purposes were a mask for ideological goals. People perceived the threat court-packing posed to the independence of the judiciary and stopped it.
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7/ Judicial nominations & confirmations have become far more politicized and contentious than they should be in large part because courts have become more powerful than they were meant to be in our constitutional system. Thus we have a constant struggle for control of the courts.
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8/ Judicial overreaching and usurpations helped create a situation in which control of the courts has become a key objective for ideological partisans on the competing sides. If judicial indpendence is, in the end, compromised, which I pray it will not be, judges share the blame.
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The 8 member court just deadlocked, which set no precedent.
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And Mitch McConnell blocked dozens of Obama’s nominees including a Supreme Court seat, in order to let Trump fill the courts. So spare us the bullshit. If Republicans fight dirty we’re not just going to roll over.
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Republicans were clear they were willing to de facto indefinitely reduce the number of justices to 8, 7, 6 etc if Clinton had been elected, and they’ve done the same thing with the lower courts. Expecting the Democrats to tie their hands behind their backs is itself ideological.
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