{"id":36639,"date":"2019-05-31T09:47:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36639"},"modified":"2019-05-31T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:47:58","slug":"pack-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/31\/pack-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Pack the Court!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s assume that Democrats take the White House and hold their strong House Majority in 2020.\u00a0 Let’s further assume that we experience a miracle, and Democrats win a bare majority in the Senate. Will we have everything we need to undo the damage that Resident Trump and the Republican Reich have imposed on our nation?\u00a0 I think not.\u00a0 Bought Bitch Mitch and Trump have further infested SCROTUS (Republican Anti-Constitutional VD) with two new bogus Injustices: Whoresuch and Pervert Kava-Nazi.\u00a0 That gives the court five extreme right-wing ideologue extremists.\u00a0 Those are lifetime appointments.\u00a0 Just to balance the Court, we need to add two progressive Justices.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Republicans have been successfully leveraging the Supreme Court balance of power as a major campaign issue to ignite their base since the 1980s. For Democrats, the 2020 election may mark the first in modern times that they unite around the high court as a driving force in a presidential election.<\/p>\n

Democratic candidates are increasingly advocating “court packing,”<\/a> that is, upping the number of Supreme Court justices to balance the bench<\/strong> — or ensure a liberal majority. The idea is unlikely to succeed for historical and practical reasons but its resonance on the campaign trail reflects Democrats’ new emphasis on the judiciary during the Trump era.<\/p>\n

The issue emerges partly from lingering anger over the Republican-led Senate’s 2016 stall of President Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland, a fire stoked this week when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said if a Supreme Court vacancy occurred in 2020 election year, he would confirm a Trump nominee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McConnell’s comments were an audacious reversal of his 2016 election-year position blocking Garland for the vacancy caused by the sudden death that February of Justice Antonin Scalia. McConnell argued that the seat should be filled by whoever won the then-upcoming presidential election<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Also drawing Democratic attention to who sits in the nine black leather chairs at the high court has been the recent enactment in states of new abortion bans. The fate of those restrictions would eventually be decided by the Supreme Court, now featuring four liberals and, with Brett Kavanaugh replacing the retired Anthony Kennedy last year, five solid conservatives…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Washington Post produced this video<\/a> to clarify the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n