09-19-2018, 03:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2018, 03:52 PM by David Horn.)
(09-18-2018, 11:44 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I suspect demographics will give the majority an increasing advantage, soon enough I hope to overturn this minority-rule system. That will be the challenge of the next 10 years as the 4th turning takes its course. It may require packing the Court, since Trump is putting up a wall to progress there which is as impressive as the wall he hopes to build to keep Mexicans out.
Packing the court has been a third-rail topic forever, because once it starts it will grow with each change of party control … or so conventional wisdom believes. I'm not so sure. Here we are in a period where the least legitimate President ever will nominate at least two Justices -- one to a seal that should have gone to his predecessor. And there is no logic to who and how many any President gets. Jimmy Carter got one. Richard Nixon got four.
Relying on luck of the draw should have balanced things this time, but it didn't. It's obviously no longer adequate to just wait until things work out. So yes, it's time to pack the court and push for a Constitutional Amendment that makes terms on the court a fixed time and a replacement regime that guarantees that each President gets to nominate and confirm the same number as his predecessor and successor.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.