And it is the Presidentās responsibility to nominate justices, so if the majority party just nullifies every single nominee until they can secure the presidency, we shouldnāt pretend that they arenāt obstructing the operation of government to try to seize power.
All of this ābut the government actually works this one specific wayā argument isnāt much of a real argument when the issue is that bad faith actors are exploiting and weaponizing the way our government works in order to destroy it and to turn it into a dictatorship.
Dems had majority in the house and senate. If they managed to get all dems to agree (which is not guaranteed) in the Senate on the appointee) then in all likelihood they would be able to increase the size with congress
Theyād have to have a supermajority in both, which is an impossibility with current gerrymandering. Really, I think the Judicial branch needs a serious overhaul from the bottom up. 9 unelected lifetime appointees getting to decide what the law means for over 300 million people is ridiculously easy to exploit, which weāre seeing now.
They would have to do the nuclear option and crush the filibuster. I agree with you though on the lifetime appointees thing. They really should have terms and elections
One thing that people seem to be missing is that the President cannot add SCOTUS vacancies. Only Congress can.
And it is the Presidentās responsibility to nominate justices, so if the majority party just nullifies every single nominee until they can secure the presidency, we shouldnāt pretend that they arenāt obstructing the operation of government to try to seize power.
All of this ābut the government actually works this one specific wayā argument isnāt much of a real argument when the issue is that bad faith actors are exploiting and weaponizing the way our government works in order to destroy it and to turn it into a dictatorship.
Dems had majority in the house and senate. If they managed to get all dems to agree (which is not guaranteed) in the Senate on the appointee) then in all likelihood they would be able to increase the size with congress
Theyād have to have a supermajority in both, which is an impossibility with current gerrymandering. Really, I think the Judicial branch needs a serious overhaul from the bottom up. 9 unelected lifetime appointees getting to decide what the law means for over 300 million people is ridiculously easy to exploit, which weāre seeing now.
They would have to do the nuclear option and crush the filibuster. I agree with you though on the lifetime appointees thing. They really should have terms and elections