Why pack the court when you have a senate that won’t even bother to conduct a confirmation hearing for your predecessor’s nominees?
Velocity:
wolfpup:
But perhaps you would be kind enough to explain to us what the “horrific long term consequences” are. Who has decreed that nine is the ideal number of justices for the highest court in the land, whose rulings are final? I would think that a larger number reduces the influence of any single justice who might be an ideological extremist or nutbar.
I’m not octopus , but once you pack the Court (in a way that consists of putting your own ideologues onto the bench, as opposed to say, half and half), you give your opponent every incentive to do the same down the road. You put 4 on the Court? I’ll put 10 when I get the chance next time. Or maybe even 50.
(Not “you” as in you personally, but in the concept in general)
Yes. And? Why should the Democrats be worried about this? It’s the choice between “GOP SCOTUS forever” and “sometimes a GOP SCOTUS, sometimes a Democratic SCOTUS”. I know which I’d choose.