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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Mar 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

      Also thishttps://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/848989509048041475 …

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      Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
      Fortas filibuster was 55% GOP, 44% Dem. Estrada filibuster in 2003 - led by Schumer & Reid - was the first party-line judicial filibuster. https://twitter.com/jadler1969/status/848869611315572737 …
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Mar 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Chris Cornish

      We had 4 rounds of ideological Court-packing between 1807 & 1869. Directly related to that, we had a Civil War triggered in good part by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision. Let's not do that again.https://twitter.com/CornishNJ/status/1107658330619695109 …

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      Chris Cornish @CornishNJ
      Replying to @baseballcrank @benshapiro
      Hasn’t it been done several times before? We’re all still here.
      27 replies 65 retweets 216 likes
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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Mar 2019

      6. Let's review here the history of the expansions of the Court in that period, some of which were more ideologically loaded than others. The Supreme Court was originally 6 Justices (even number - not ideal!). For both practical & ideological reasons, it was expanded to 7 in 1807

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Mar 2019

      7. Jefferson's effort to alter the trajectory of the Marshall Court was not notably successful. John Marshall was too good at winning new Justices over to his way of thinking. The Court stayed at 7 for 30 years.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Mar 2019

      8. Judicial confirmation fights restarted in earnest in 1828, when the Senate blocked outgoing POTUS John Quincy Adams from filling a seat, leaving it for Andrew Jackson, then in 1835 when the Senate tabled Jackson's nomination of his Attorney General, Roger Taney.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Mar 2019

      9. Later that year, Jackson got Taney through as Chief Justice - the role in which he would write Dred Scott. Democrats added two Justices so Jackson could make additional nominations on the way out the door to reshape the Court.

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Mar 2019

      10. This was an explicitly ideological project (the pro-slavery element of Jacksonianism was not the forefront issue yet in 1837, but it was an element). Jackson filled 1 of the 2 slots with Justice Catron, who joined Taney in Dred Scott.

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Mar 2019

      11. Jackson's effort to fill both seats - both were nominated & confirmed the last day of his term - was thwarted when South Carolina's William Smith declined to serve. Van Buren made a recess appointment (McKinley).

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Mar 2019

      12. McKinley's successor, Justice John Campbell, was appointed by another Democrat, Franklin Pierce. Campbell also joined Dred Scott, later resigned the Court to join the Confederacy.

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    10. Craig Ogawa‏ @craigaroo 18 Mar 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Incredible display of intellectual dishonesty even for you. 12 tweets, pearl-clutching, on the the horrible things Ds have done and NOT TWO WORDS ON "MERRICK GARLAND"

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Mar 2019
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      I have written many words on that and linked that herehttps://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1107656429350109184 …

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      Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
      I've written on the judicial nomination wars before, for those interested in the history. But this would be a drastic new step of enormous danger to the foundations of our system. https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/03/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-nominee-rejections-politics-has-lot-do-it/ … https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/it-doesnt-matter-garland-didnt-get-hearing/ … https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mclaughlin-supreme-court-vacancies-election-20180711-story.html … https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-nomination-senate-should-vote-before-midterms/ …
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        1. Craig Ogawa‏ @craigaroo 18 Mar 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Then I give you credit for that. But it's not enough. What McConnell and senate Rs did on the Garland nomination was an injustice crying out for remedy. And packing the courts is just as Constitutional (or more) as guys like you argue denying Pres O a Court pick was

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