How do you all feel about the possibility of Dems adding more justices to the supreme court if they win the WH and the Senate?
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All it is gonna do is come back to haunt you years down the road, just like what happened when Harry Reid changed the rules with that nuclear option for executive branch nominations back in 2013. Going from the super majority to just a majority has let the republicans put all these justices on these courts around the country.
If anything they need to push for a term limit on the court so these folks don't get this life time term. Barrett is 48 and could be on the court for the next 40 plus years.
The best way to make the Senate more winnable is by granting DC statehood
And Puerto Rico
True. They are just like Cubans in some stancesI don't trust P.R. to not get the Republican itch...
All it is gonna do is come back to haunt you years down the road, just like what happened when Harry Reid changed the rules with that nuclear option for executive branch nominations back in 2013. Going from the super majority to just a majority has let the republicans put all these justices on these courts around the country.
If anything they need to push for a term limit on the court so these folks don't get this life time term. Barrett is 48 and could be on the court for the next 40 plus years.
Granting DC statehood would put the locaion of the nation's capitol in a single state. That was the very reason, along with appeasing the South before and during Reconstruction, for moving the capitol out of New York state in the first place to a more centralized area of land donated by Virginia and Maryland. The nation's capitol should not be located in and subject to any particular jurisdiction. It should always be free and clear of that! What they should do IMO is grant voting rights to the DC delegate as a member of Congress, at the very least. Now as to PR, I could support granting rights of statehood, although the Republicans would throw a fit over the creation of statehood for a largely minority population.If Dems expand the Supreme Court (not "pack"), they'd damn well better be sure they can keep a Senate Majority longer than 2 years...
Otherwise the GOP Senate Majority Leader and GOP President will pay off ageing justices to retire just like they did with Kennedy.
The best way to make the Senate more winnable is by granting DC statehood
Granting DC statehood would put the locaion of the nation's capitol in a single state. That was the very reason, along with appeasing the South brfore and during Reconstruction, for moving the capitol out of New York state in the first place to a more centralized area of land donated by Virginia and Maryland. The nation's capitol should not be located in and subject to any particular jurisdiction. It should always be free and clear of that! What they should do IMO is grant voting rights to the DC delegate as a member of Congress, at the very least. Now as to PR, I could support granting rights of statehood, although the Republicans would throw a fit over the creation of statehood for a largely minority population.