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Do you agree or disagree with RBG stance on “packing” Supreme Court?

Do you agree or disagree with RBG stance on “packing” Supreme Court?


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“Nine seems to be a good number and it’s been that way for a long time. I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea when Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court … [and] I am not at all in favor of that,” Ginsburg said.

 
I certainly agree with RBG's statement yet the Democrats are threatening to blow it all up if the Republicans get a nominee confirmed to replace RBG as soon as they take control of the Senate. So now we are not just threatened by the leftist Democrat voters on the street protesting and threatening people to conform or else, they will burn it all down. Now we have Democrat Congress critters threatening to do the very same thing.
 
“Nine seems to be a good number and it’s been that way for a long time. I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea when Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court … [and] I am not at all in favor of that,” Ginsburg said.


This is a fantastically silly idea, because it presumes that the Republicans will never again take the Presidency, the House and the Senate. So let us say, for example, the Democrats pass legislation increasing the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to thirteen sitting justices so that they can add four justices to the Supreme Court to tip the Court in their favor. Alright. Then there is nothing to stop Republicans from adding four justices of their own if and when they re-take the House, Senate and Presidency. There is certainly no good reason for them to refrain from doing so. And then when the pendulum swings, the Democrats can add another four, then the Republicans four (Hell, why not ten?), and so and so forth. Depending on the revisions, by the year 2100, the United States Supreme Court could feasibly have more justices than the Senate has Senators.

So instead of having a Court of ultimate appeal to render final rulings and verdicts, we will instead have a de facto House of Lords to decide what the laws of the land should ultimately be. Would that be a bad thing? Probably.
 
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Wait for whoever wins the elections president and.congress to take office

Or if the democrats win our Supreme Court will have 13 justices

Democrats have just as much right to that path as Republicans have to appoint a justice
 
“Nine seems to be a good number and it’s been that way for a long time. I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea when Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court … [and] I am not at all in favor of that,” Ginsburg said.

I am for reducing the court to 7...eliminate the last 2 seats taken. It returns it to the original framework.
 
Simple

Wait for whoever wins the elections president and.congress to take office

Or if the democrats win our Supreme Court will have 13 justices

Democrats have just as much right to that path as Republicans have to appoint a justice

The problem is that you seem to be suggesting Dems wouldn’t try to pack the court even if Trump and the Repubs held off and there is no reason to believe that.
 
The problem is that you seem to be suggesting Dems wouldn’t try to pack the court even if Trump and the Repubs held off and there is no reason to believe that.
If Trump holds off until the election is over and he wins, I am for him picking a nominee and that nominee being fully vetted. I am not for it happening, when voting has already commenced. Especially, considering the position of Republicans just a few years ago. If he wins then move forward..and that goes even if the Senate flips Democrat and he wins the election. He would be forced to find a more moderate justice and everyone wins.

When justices have been pushed through in a hurried way it has given us decisions that were horrific to our history...Dred Scott, Jim Crow laws being among a few of those coming from justices rammed through for political purposes. We need to choose our justices carefully not in a hurried fashion. I am for requiring a 60 vote requirement to confirm a justice...if you cannot get that...too bad...oh and no filibuster to bring the nominee before the Senate for vote...it is 60 or more or the justice is not confirmed...that will force the hands of both sides and a sitting president to do what is right for the country and not their political affliliation.
 
If Trump holds off until the election is over and he wins, I am for him picking a nominee and that nominee being fully vetted. I am not for it happening, when voting has already commenced. Especially, considering the position of Republicans just a few years ago. If he wins then move forward..and that goes even if the Senate flips Democrat and he wins the election. He would be forced to find a more moderate justice and everyone wins.

When justices have been pushed through in a hurried way it has given us decisions that were horrific to our history...Dred Scott, Jim Crow laws being among a few of those coming from justices rammed through for political purposes. We need to choose our justices carefully not in a hurried fashion. I am for requiring a 60 vote requirement to confirm a justice...if you cannot get that...too bad...oh and no filibuster to bring the nominee before the Senate for vote...it is 60 or more or the justice is not confirmed...that will force the hands of both sides and a sitting president to do what is right for the country and not their political affliliation.

You can’t convince me you’re interested in “moderate” choices when you support the Dems packing the Supreme Court if they don’t get their way. Have you ever argued for Dem restraint when they were in control?
 
You can’t convince me you’re interested in “moderate” choices when you support the Dems packing the Supreme Court if they don’t get their way. Have you ever argued for Dem restraint when they were in control.
where do I say I support packing the court? I said, I support reducing the court back to 7...which is an originalist idea btw. The court was established at 7. That isn't packing the court, that is returning it to the original configuration. I have always supported moderate choices. I was positive during the confirmation hearing of John Roberts as well as some others. I opposed the confirmation of Thomas...so, not sure how that makes me not a moderate...also a 60 vote requirement would stop the political footballing.
 
“Nine seems to be a good number and it’s been that way for a long time. I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea when Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court … [and] I am not at all in favor of that,” Ginsburg said.


I like how you asked "Do you agree or disagree" and then your answers are "yes" and "no". Do you agree or disagree? Yes.

lol

I take it you mean yes to mean you agree and no to mean you disagree.

I do agree with her that packing the court is a bad idea. I think you just open up an "arms race" of sorts. Particularly given our current partisan, hypocritical system dominated by the Republocrat Oligarchy. It's best not to open that can of worms.
 
“Nine seems to be a good number and it’s been that way for a long time. I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea when Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court … [and] I am not at all in favor of that,” Ginsburg said.


She gave that interview in July 2019.
A lot has changed, specifically Mitch McConnell's stunningly hypocritical reversal on a precedent setting stance that he himself created when he refused to allow even a hearing for a SCOTUS nominee citing the election year.

For you or anyone to bring up a posthumous interview as a justification for servicing McConnell's hypocrisy is a new Goebbelian low even for you.
 
She gave that interview in July 2019.
A lot has changed, specifically Mitch McConnell's stunningly hypocritical reversal on a precedent setting stance that he himself created when he refused to allow even a hearing for a SCOTUS nominee citing the election year.

For you or anyone to bring up a posthumous interview as a justification for servicing McConnell's hypocrisy is a new Goebbelian low even for you.

It was technically not posthumous. And the principle is the same: Once you start packing the Courts, the other side has no reason not to start packing the Courts when they take power. Then it is no longer about filling Court Seats. It is about which party has taken the Presidency, Senate and the House in order to expand the Court. The Democrats can add four seats in 2021. And when the Republicans eventually take Congress and the White House, their first order of business will be to add fourteen seats to the Supreme Court and fill them with Federalist Society justices. Then the Democrats will add twenty eight seats to the Supreme Court when they take power. We can end up having a Supreme Court bigger than the Senate. Hell, perhaps our Supreme Court will sit more justices than the House of Representatives. When political power is all that matters, why the Hell not?
 
I like how you asked "Do you agree or disagree" and then your answers are "yes" and "no". Do you agree or disagree? Yes.

lol

I take it you mean yes to mean you agree and no to mean you disagree.

I do agree with her that packing the court is a bad idea. I think you just open up an "arms race" of sorts. Particularly given our current partisan, hypocritical system dominated by the Republocrat Oligarchy. It's best not to open that can of worms.

Shoot. You’re right. I meant the question to be do you agree w/RBG’s stance.
 
When political power is all that matters, why the Hell not?

Tell that to Mitch. He's the one who thinks political power is all that matters and yet you're scolding the people who see no other option to stop his hypocrisy.
Nice.

By the way, the founder of the Federalist society now supports immediate impeachment of Donald Trump.
Isn't that interesting...
 
She gave that interview in July 2019.
A lot has changed, specifically Mitch McConnell's stunningly hypocritical reversal on a precedent setting stance that he himself created when he refused to allow even a hearing for a SCOTUS nominee citing the election year.

For you or anyone to bring up a posthumous interview as a justification for servicing McConnell's hypocrisy is a new Goebbelian low even for you.
Moscow Mitch is clearly a spineless partisan chump who lacks all integrity. But it would still be a bad idea to start the court-packing arms race.
 
I certainly agree with RBG's statement yet the Democrats are threatening to blow it all up if the Republicans get a nominee confirmed to replace RBG as soon as they take control of the Senate. So now we are not just threatened by the leftist Democrat voters on the street protesting and threatening people to conform or else, they will burn it all down. Now we have Democrat Congress critters threatening to do the very same thing.

When aren't the Democrats threatening the Republicans? Such tyrants!
 
Tell that to Mitch. He's the one who thinks political power is all that matters and yet you're scolding the people who see no other option to stop his hypocrisy.
Nice.

Nothing can stop Mitch McConnell's hypocrisy. And he is the most gifted Machiavellian politician we have had in decades. I have no doubt that he is very certain that the Republicans will lose the Senate in November. Further, the Supreme Court is solidly conservative right now with eight justices. Yet he wants to ram through an appointment in less than 50 days prior to the election.

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself: Why is McConnell doing this? Why is he waving a red flag in front of the Bull which is the Democratic Party and its base? Especially when there is clear talk about packing the Court? Is it because McConnell is truly just that short-sighted? Or is it because he has planned out moves further down the road and foresees turning the Supreme Court into the Republican House of Lords by expanding the number of justices to a high degree, shunting aside John Roberts?
 
Moscow Mitch is clearly a spineless partisan chump who lacks all integrity. But it would still be a bad idea to start the court-packing arms race.

Au Contraire. I submit to you that Mitch McConnell is about as spineless and myopic as Otto Von Bismarck. I think twenty years from now we will be reading books on political strategy using him as a case study of the greatest Machiavel in American history.
 
Nothing can stop Mitch McConnell's hypocrisy. And he is the most gifted Machiavellian politician we have had in decades. I have no doubt that he is very certain that the Republicans will lose the Senate in November. Further, the Supreme Court is solidly conservative right now with eight justices. Yet he wants to ram through an appointment in less than 50 days prior to the election.

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself: Why is McConnell doing this? Why is he waving a red flag in front of the Bull which is the Democratic Party and its base? Especially when there is clear talk about packing the Court? Is it because McConnell is truly just that short-sighted? Or is it because he has planned out moves further down the road and foresees turning the Supreme Court into the Republican House of Lords by expanding the number of justices to a high degree, shunting aside John Roberts?

It's because the Court has become neigh omnipotent and it's a life-time appointment. In the long run, control of the WH or Congress doesn't matter as much as control of SCOTUS. The R's and D's will flipflop control of Congress and the WH, but if they get young justices in, they can control the courts for decades.
 
“Nine seems to be a good number and it’s been that way for a long time. I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea when Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court … [and] I am not at all in favor of that,” Ginsburg said.


RBG wasn't for packing the courts with justices, so I voted yes.
 
Au Contraire. I submit to you that Mitch McConnell is about as spineless and myopic as Otto Von Bismarck. I think twenty years from now we will be reading books on political strategy using him as a case study of the greatest Machiavel in American history.

No, he's spineless. He tries to weasel control of the courts instead of standing by his words. Bismarck would wipe the floor with Moscow Mitch.
 
She gave that interview in July 2019.
A lot has changed, specifically Mitch McConnell's stunningly hypocritical reversal on a precedent setting stance that he himself created when he refused to allow even a hearing for a SCOTUS nominee citing the election year.

For you or anyone to bring up a posthumous interview as a justification for servicing McConnell's hypocrisy is a new Goebbelian low even for you.

What an odd think to be so pissy about. Quoting RBG in a relatively recent interview.
 
Nothing can stop Mitch McConnell's hypocrisy. And he is the most gifted Machiavellian politician we have had in decades. I have no doubt that he is very certain that the Republicans will lose the Senate in November. Further, the Supreme Court is solidly conservative right now with eight justices. Yet he wants to ram through an appointment in less than 50 days prior to the election.

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself: Why is McConnell doing this? Why is he waving a red flag in front of the Bull which is the Democratic Party and its base? Especially when there is clear talk about packing the Court? Is it because McConnell is truly just that short-sighted? Or is it because he has planned out moves further down the road and foresees turning the Supreme Court into the Republican House of Lords by expanding the number of justices to a high degree, shunting aside John Roberts?

All worthy of consideration and under normal circumstances I would agree that court packing is a poor choice.
So is shooting a person who is repeatedly pounding their boot into your front teeth, but sometimes one might only have that one choice to survive.

Newt Gingrich's plan for a permanent Republican majority cannot come true by votes alone but a packed SCOTUS filled with one party advocates can make it happen.
 
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