“If they win, that is exactly what will happen, and it only takes a majority vote and the signature of the President,” they wrote, pointing to a comment from Harris, who reportedly has said she is “open” to a conversation about increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court.
Oh god no, not a majority vote.
Yes, Barr. Having conservatives on our highest court, have undermined the meaning of American justice, and thus removing them and keeping them out is a good long term solution, intended by term limits and oversight.
Had they behaved and acted like the reasoned juris doctors that they are trained to be, then they wouldn't have brought this on themselves.
“Stare Decisis? Sounds like some bitch mumbo jumbo talk!” - Uncle Thomas
I'm not sure if I've ever seen that much projection in a single article before.
Essentially every single thing that he accuses the left of planning to do is actually something that the right has already done, and is in fact one of the reasons that reform is necessary.
The most frustrating part of it is that it's not simply that he self-evidently has no integrity and no principles, but that he's a short-sighted moron. Like every useful idiot in every authoritarian coup ever, he's defending the autocrats simply because their actions currently align with his shallow self-interest, and is completely oblivious to the fact that they could just as easily (and sooner or later will) oppose his interests, and by then, in part specifically because of his shallow stupidity, it'll be too late to do anything about it.
Bill Barr is not the least bit stupid nor short-sighted. He is not a useful idiot. He knows exactly what he is: a member of and functionary for the capitalist class, and he knows exactly what he’s doing: fighting a class war against the working class. Autocrats’ interests always have and always will align with the interests of the capitalist class.
I would really like to see our supreme court filled with neutral people. Someone that will side with the law, not religion, not party lines. It's really what we should have but clowns are going to clown.
That's the way judges are supposed to be, just not how it works in reality.
In theory that's how it works already. In practice, there is currently no disadvantage to appointing partisan judges and no system in which to objectively measure partisanship of a candidate. What that means is that there will always be partisan parties appointing partisan judges and there will always be candidates who claimed to be neutral who will be either accused of or proven to be partisan anyway.
In the current system true neutrality on the bench does not exist
Pretty easy to find out if they're religious though. Getting rid of that would help quite a bit. A system to hold them accountable for being asshats would be great too.
It would purge corruption, so... yes.
It's journalistic malpractice to write an entire piece on expanding the court quoting Bill Barr without even once mentioning the corruption that got us here.
Conservatism is a poison on society. Whats the problem?
I read Bill Burr and was confused.
This will never pass though.
every accusation is a confession
So out of curiosity from outside the US - why hasn't it been done before? I.e. during Biden's original term as a president, or perhaps in his VP term with Obama?