Anyone who knows the Democrats ‘ “reform” plan is just a cynical ploy to vilify both the jury and the Constitution. It’s difficult to argue anything.
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Ask yourself this: Did any Democrat support the government’s court-packing system if they believed Republicans would earn both Buildings and the president? Of course no. It’s Calvinball all the way along.
And , it is a court-packing system. a constitutional one. One imagines the name” court-packing” has n’t polled very well with the government, so President Joe Biden– or whoever’s running the White House these times– signed off on a secret program. An 18-year term limit for justices did, quite easily, turn a 6-3 originalist majority into a 6-3 “living and breathing document” majority that would overturn some new decisions, and rubber stamp a slew of governmental abuses.
Given that there are virtually no chances of the reform bundle being passed, one might say it’s all just an election gimmick. That’s not the place. The Supreme Court’s refusal to veer from partisan demands has become the norm because of the Left’s general consensus that it is both illegal and corrupt.
After all, none of the Left’s concerns are grounded in anything resembling a constitutional explanation. The court’s full case revolves around the feckless notion that it is failing because it rejects Democrats ‘ political principles. They do n’t even care that the law is neutral, let alone the law itself. The modern communist has no limiting beliefs and is moral.
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Vice President Kamala Harris claims that packing the Supreme Court is needed because” the Supreme Court is facing a distinct crisis of confidence.” Is there?
First off, we find ourselves here because of decades-long strikes on the organization. Rich liberal activist groups started putting together fake scandals and laundering them using fake newsroom tricks.
The media is then connect the term “plagued by drive scandals”, or some such bullshit, to every mention of the court. If there is any crisis of confidence, it’s because the Left concocted one.
Even still, Gallup finds that 30 % of Americans have a “great deal/quite a lot” of confidence in the Supreme Court. In the last two years, the figure has slightly increased. Another 31 % say they have” some” confidence in SCOTUS.
So, let’s set aside that pesky Article 3 of the Constitution for a moment. If polling is the excuse for stripping the independence of a branch of government, why would we allow Congress, with its 9 % confidence rating, to do it?
A code of judicial conduct is already in place by justices. None of them have engaged in unethical behavior on the bench that directly benefited a third party, much less themselves. Justices have no reason to believe that they have abandoned their long-held legal theories for any reason, whether for vacation or for whatever reason.
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Additionally, it’s important to keep in mind that Democrats created a number of brand-new standards to disparage Clarence Thomas. The majority of the judicial committee members, including Peter Welch, Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Dick Durbin, have engaged in self-indulgence in order to delegitimize the court.
Perhaps SCOTUS should be writing ethics regulations for Congress, from what I’m seeing.
Democrats want to establish an ethics code to make it easier for partisans to slander justices in yet another congressional show trial and false investigations if they have access to the newest garbage released by the media.
Sorry, the Supreme Court is an equal branch of government. Chuck Schumer is free to threaten justices, but they still do n’t answer to him.
” What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a breach”, Biden says.
The president, whose family became wealthy peddling a shady influence racket, has a 26 % confidence rating with Gallup.
The media, deservingly, is near the bottom of the list. In reality, Americans have more faith in the Supreme Court than they do state-run nonprofits, unions, big businesses, banks, or the criminal justice system.
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The president is correct to point out that the court has historically upheld the Constitution. Even then, majority concurrences are quite diverse. The idea that textualists walk in a lockstep with the left is a complete fantasy, as the previous session demonstrated.
The high court should be shielded from the whims and opulent pressures of political debate by Lifetime appointments for justice. The Supreme Court’s performance in its role is exactly what bothers the Left the most. The process would turn into a more obscene partisan mess if we had no idea when confirmation votes would take place. That, again, is exactly what the anti-norm leftist desires.
Indeed, the Democrats ‘ plan to pack the Supreme Court, the last properly functioning institution in D. C., is an attack on the constitutional order.
