07-03-2022, 12:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-03-2022, 03:15 AM by Eric the Green.)
How do I know Brett Kavanaugh is the man in the middle? Other experts identify him as this, and during this week filled with reactionary decisions, there was also one liberal-leaning decision and Biden victory when the Court overturned the immigrant remain in Mexico policy, and it was Kavanaugh who joined Roberts and the three liberals to make this decision.
Jason Greene said that we are the only country with such a small supreme court. This surprised me, because the politicians and pundits usually say we should not expand the Court because the next congress and administration might be Republican and add even more justices, and there'd be no end to this.
I disagree. This Supreme Court is a national disgrace and a national emergency. Their decisions are putting lives and the whole world at risk. The Republican Party that created this Court is an anomaly. There won't be another like it. If the Court is restored to a 7-6 moderate-to-liberal majority, and no longer consists of Republican Party hacks, it will make fair and just decisions and politicians will not support appointing 2 or 3 more reactionaries to give them a majority again. And if the current anomalous Republican Party is voted out nationwide, enough so that Republican senators can't join with the two DINOs in upholding the filibuster, the chances are that this Party will not return, because the schemes they are now carrying out to restrict and distort elections will be over, and the people will see sane government restored. A Court of 13 justices may lean a bit left or right in the future, but never again will it cause destruction and authoritarian rule. Especially if we also impose term limits on them. I would prefer this limit to be retroactive so we can dispense with Uncle Thomas, but we don't know if future reforms, if they happen, will go that far. Thomas may retire by then too.
I thought the threat of court packing and term limits might make the Court a bit more circumspect about making the sorts of extreme regressive decisions that they are now mostly making (except that one, above). So far, they don't feel the threat, and we don't know if they ever would in sufficient manner to shift their decisions.
Jason Greene said that we are the only country with such a small supreme court. This surprised me, because the politicians and pundits usually say we should not expand the Court because the next congress and administration might be Republican and add even more justices, and there'd be no end to this.
I disagree. This Supreme Court is a national disgrace and a national emergency. Their decisions are putting lives and the whole world at risk. The Republican Party that created this Court is an anomaly. There won't be another like it. If the Court is restored to a 7-6 moderate-to-liberal majority, and no longer consists of Republican Party hacks, it will make fair and just decisions and politicians will not support appointing 2 or 3 more reactionaries to give them a majority again. And if the current anomalous Republican Party is voted out nationwide, enough so that Republican senators can't join with the two DINOs in upholding the filibuster, the chances are that this Party will not return, because the schemes they are now carrying out to restrict and distort elections will be over, and the people will see sane government restored. A Court of 13 justices may lean a bit left or right in the future, but never again will it cause destruction and authoritarian rule. Especially if we also impose term limits on them. I would prefer this limit to be retroactive so we can dispense with Uncle Thomas, but we don't know if future reforms, if they happen, will go that far. Thomas may retire by then too.
I thought the threat of court packing and term limits might make the Court a bit more circumspect about making the sorts of extreme regressive decisions that they are now mostly making (except that one, above). So far, they don't feel the threat, and we don't know if they ever would in sufficient manner to shift their decisions.