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stochastic originalism: from stopping you at a state border to letting your state overthrow the USA [1]
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Date: 2022-07-10
It really is as simple as winning all the positions in 2022.
x ICYMI: "The U.S. Supreme Court's October 2021 term was one of the momentous in history. The only analogy I can think of is 1937 for its dramatic changes in constitutional law."
https://t.co/jnIkOuExHp #SCOTUS @BerkeleyLaw — ABA Journal (@ABAJournal) July 11, 2022
x A friend sent a copy of Zimmerman's "The Supreme Court gets F in history in rulings."
Felt like it helped save my sanity. Seems like, when not on Twitter, I'm the only one in SD who thinks as I do.
It may be from the Chicago Tribune, but it still helped!
https://t.co/VMAORfSJ5H — Zee (@Zee97052831) July 11, 2022
x It's not a joke. They all participated in a conspiracy to defraud ie obstruct Congress that was just accomplished so the statute of limitation has just started to run. @TheJusticeDept needs to play hardball and charge them all. Nothing in the Constitution prevents it.
https://t.co/yfzo61cGH0 — Tim Hogan 浩勤 (@TimInHonolulu) July 11, 2022
The Constitution does not set a specific size for the Supreme Court, and its current number of nine justices is just a 150-year-old practice.
"The Constitution is pretty brief. All it basically says is there shall be one Supreme Court," explained Joshua Braver, an expert in court-packing, a term used to define the practice of changing the size of the court.
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In its history, the size of the Supreme Court has been changed seven times. Most of these changes happened to make the court able to process many more cases as the court system changed, increasing the number of justices.
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Precedents prove that the size of the Supreme Court can be changed. But will it? The problem is not a technical one.
Biden has so far indicated that he opposes an expansion of the court.
"The first question is, do they [Democrats] have the votes? Do they have support? And the answer is no, they don't. They don't have the support at all," said Braver of those calling for an expansion of the court.
"The Democratic Party, unlike the Republican Party, is a diverse party. And because the electoral map is tilted against them, because Republicans have systematic advantages in the Electoral College, in the Senate, and even in the House of Representatives, Democrats have to appeal to moderate voters. And the thought at least, is that moderate voters are unlikely to like something like court-packing," said Braver. "If you're going to pull off something like court-packing, ideally, at least you need to have overwhelming electoral firepower."
www.newsweek.com/…
x "The Supreme Court has expanded or shrunk in size seven times throughout its history"
https://t.co/AiRU4R1k1T — Shannon Skinner (she/her) 🍎 (@Shansterable) July 10, 2022
x He did seem to realize that the Supreme Court was broken before many other leading Democrats.
https://t.co/NcRXc9vgfh — Alexander Gruchala (@BoGruchala) July 11, 2022
(2019)
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has talked about his plan to overhaul the high court since his first days as a candidate. In short, it calls for expanding the number of justices from nine to 15, with five affiliated with Democrats, five affiliated with Republicans, and five apolitical justices chosen by the first 10.
Although other Democratic candidates have called for Supreme Court reform — Beto O’Rourke has even called the same 15-justice plan “an idea we should explore” — no other candidate has made it central to his or her rationale for running and proposed presidential agenda. Buttigieg has said structural democratic reform would be his top priority, vowing to launch a commission on depoliticizing the Supreme Court on his first day as president.
Buttigieg hasn’t ruled out other possibilities for court reform, but says the 15-justice plan is “the one that I find most intriguing.” Supreme Court experts, though, have raised concerns about whether the proposal is constitutional, as well as whether it could backfire by reinforcing the perception that there are Republican and Democratic justices.
www.nbcnews.com/...
x At the risk of setting off another round of responses, yes, Hillary Clinton did campaign on protecting Roe. She did not, however, campaign on codifying it. So, while it was and is an important issue to her, it was still "Don't overturn Roe" in the 2016 election. — The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) July 10, 2022
x The Wisconsin Supreme Court vindicates the rule of law on ballot drop boxes—but not Donald Trump’s stolen election claims.
https://t.co/37xGsDq3zp — Conservative Mimi (@LyzzPickle) July 10, 2022
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