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McCormick Prof. of Jurisprudence, Princeton University + Bluegrass Banjo Picker + "Anathema to the Left" (quoting E. Green, The Atlantic). unWoke/uncancellable

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    1. Robert P. George‏ @McCormickProf 8 Oct 2020

      Robert P. George Retweeted Abigail Marone

      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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      Joe Biden: "You’ll know my opinion on court packing when the election is over" pic.twitter.com/YwCWrQiiDz
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    2. Robert P. George‏ @McCormickProf 8 Oct 2020

      2/ Courts have often erred, letting ideology intrude into their decisions. Judges have violated the Constitution by usurping the authority of other branches of government under the guise of enforcing constitutional principles. Courts have claimed powers not rightfully theirs.

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    3. Robert P. George‏ @McCormickProf 8 Oct 2020

      3/ Lincoln was right to reject judicial supremacy. He was on solid ground in standing up to the judicial usurpation of authority in the Dred Scott case. But Roosevelt was wrong to propose packing the Court. And the people who have today revived his misbegotten idea are wrong too.

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    4. Robert P. George‏ @McCormickProf 8 Oct 2020

      4/ For all their historical errors and faults, courts are nevertheless indispensable institutions in our constitutional system, and the independence of the judiciary is a sacrosanct principle. It is not that the number 9 is sacred or constitutionally required. It isn't. But ....

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      Robert P. George‏ @McCormickProf 8 Oct 2020

      5/ If the number of justices on the Court is to be increased (or decreased) that decision must not be motivated and shaped by ideological goals. Even Roosevelt understood that well enough to realize he had to lie about the real purposes of his court-packing plan. The plan failed.

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        2. Robert P. George‏ @McCormickProf 8 Oct 2020

          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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        3. Robert P. George‏ @McCormickProf 8 Oct 2020

          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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        4. Robert P. George‏ @McCormickProf 8 Oct 2020

          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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        2. CatrionaMDW‏ @CatrionaMDW 8 Oct 2020
          Replying to @Imbisstube @McCormickProf

          The 8 member court just deadlocked, which set no precedent.

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        2. ZaxxonGalaxian‏ @ZaxxonGalaxian 8 Oct 2020
          Replying to @McCormickProf

          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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        2. Matthew Shadle‏ @Matthew_Shadle 8 Oct 2020
          Replying to @McCormickProf

          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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