Is the President allowed to appoint a Supreme Court Justice during an election year?

[antiquity]

Wouldn't be a hoot if Trump and congress voted to allow up to 13 judges to the Supreme Court just as the democrats have threaten and all of them were Constitutional conservatives?

 

[WorldWatcher]

Wouldn't be a hoot if Trump and congress voted to allow up to 13 judges to the Supreme Court just as the democrats have threaten and all of them were Constitutional conservatives?

I think it would be a hoot to watch the GOP try to pack the court.

WW

 

[The Brad Dad]

The President is not the Boss of the Senate.

That was before the GOP devolved into a cult.

 

[The Brad Dad]

Wouldn't be a hoot if Trump and congress voted to allow up to 13 judges to the Supreme Court just as the democrats have threaten and all of them were Constitutional conservatives?

That's fine. Just write an EO replacing any of Trump's chosen justices.

 

[antiquity]

I think it would be a hoot to watch the GOP try to pack the court.

WW

From who? The republican control the house, senate and the presidency so if they wanted to pack the court who would stop them.
Not saying they should be but just put something out there the democrats have talked about for years.
The democrat have talked about it packing the SC court every time the SC rulings doesn't go in their way of thinking.
And you can't deny that....

 

[cpwill]

Okay, and if the Democrats pulled the same stuff as McConnell did to get a majority on the Supreme, do you think the majority of conservatives here would be fine with it?

I think several of the right wingers would switch sides, as partisans of all stripes do on this issue and others having to do with constraints on Presidential power based on whether or not "their guy" currently sits in the White House.

Remember back when it was the Left urging Biden to ignore the Supreme Court on forgiving Student Loans? What do you think they will do when/if Trump decides to ignore a SCOTUS decision on a policy preference of his?

You might as well say the US Constitution is just the Weimar Constitution if it has such obvious flaws in it.

There are a few in the Constitution I would address - but we are not yet the Wiemar Constitution. Our problem is not our governing structure, but a combination of our institutions' repeated refusals to protect their own legitimacy and our people not caring if their Super Special Avatar violates the Constitution.

 

[cpwill]

In our case, one might add. its the worst system, until it disappears.

As will all our systems. Not a government yet has proven immortal, and most Democracies commit suicide.

 

[The Brad Dad]

From who? The republican control the house, senate and the presidency so if they wanted to pack the court who would stop them.
Not saying they should be but just put something out there the democrats have talked about for years.
The democrat have talked about it packing the SC court every time the SC rulings doesn't go in their way of thinking.
And you can't deny that....

It’s not about rulings going anyone’s way. This court is compromised and does not serve the constitution any longer. They’re just a GOP legislative workaround to legislation the GOP can’t win with votes. Then you add the fact that alto is compromised and Thomas is corrupt. This SC has to go.

 

[Gimmesometruth]

Is the President allowed to appoint a Supreme Court Justice during an election year?

That is reserved for white "republican" potus's.

 

[Mika-El]

Is the President allowed to appoint a Supreme Court Justice during an election year? Because Republicans seem to flip flop on this issue based solely on naked opportunism:

McConnell’s fabricated history to justify a 2020 Supreme Court vote | Brookings

The historical record doesn't support the justifications the Senate GOP have proffered for blocking, and now permitting, election-year Supreme Court appointments, as shown by this case-by-case analysis of how nominations in election years have played out with both unified and divided government.

www.brookings.edu

Yes. The Republicans tried to argue there was a practice not to. That was b.s.

McConnell’s fabricated history to justify a 2020 Supreme Court vote | Brookings

The historical record doesn't support the justifications the Senate GOP have proffered for blocking, and now permitting, election-year Supreme Court appointments, as shown by this case-by-case analysis of how nominations in election years have played out with both unified and divided government.

www.brookings.edu

Supreme Court justice confirmations in election years are common — despite Dem complaints

“That’s their job,” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg responded when asked in 2016 if the Senate had an obligation to act on President Barack Obama’s nomination of U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says...

www.lee.senate.gov

Supreme Court vacancies in presidential election years

In the wake of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, questions have arisen about whether there is a standard practice of not nominating and confirming Supreme Court Justices during a […]

www.scotusblog.com

 

[Gimmesometruth]

most Democracies commit suicide.

Thats such a weird thing to say. I look at interwar Germany, the Weimar govt didn't "commit suicide", it was torn apart in its very young life by internal near-civil war strife. Then an extremist rightwinger took over as a totalitarian after running as a populist.

Why do "conservatives" like yourself create images of liberals killing themselves instead of seeing that reactionaries usually cause the destruction?