Congress must immediately begin working to restructure SCOTUS and add at least 5 more justices in November. If they don’t, I have news for you: things won’t be getting better.
Adding more justices won’t have any appreciable effect until Trump is out of office.
Supreme Court justices have to be nominated by the President, then ratified by the Senate. And anyone Trump nominates would just make the problem worse, not better.
If you create 5 new Supreme Court justice seats, the best case scenario is that those seats go unfilled until there’s a Dem in the White House, because the Dem-controlled Senate keeps refusing all of Trump’s nominations. The best case scenario there is that nothing immediately changes.
If you want to address the problems in the Supreme Court, impeachment and removal of problematic justices is a much better way to go. That can take effect and rebalance the Court immediately, without needing any cooperation from the President. A few of them already have public information that paints them as blatantly guilty of accepting bribes, which is reason enough for removal. Also, every single one of them that voted to abolish Roe v. Wade lied about their intentions of doing so in their Senate confirmation hearings, which were taken under oath. Lying under oath during a Senate hearing is also a perfectly valid cause for impeachment and removal.
The trouble is in getting enough votes in the Senate to convict and remove, after the House votes to impeach. Even the best case midterm scenario for the Dems doesn’t give them enough Senate seats to have that much of a supermajority on their own. Even in the best case, they’ll still have to get at least a few Republicans on their side in order to complete these impeachments and actually make a difference.
Congress must immediately begin working to restructure SCOTUS and add at least 5 more justices in November. If they don’t, I have news for you: things won’t be getting better.
Adding more justices won’t have any appreciable effect until Trump is out of office.
Supreme Court justices have to be nominated by the President, then ratified by the Senate. And anyone Trump nominates would just make the problem worse, not better.
If you create 5 new Supreme Court justice seats, the best case scenario is that those seats go unfilled until there’s a Dem in the White House, because the Dem-controlled Senate keeps refusing all of Trump’s nominations. The best case scenario there is that nothing immediately changes.
If you want to address the problems in the Supreme Court, impeachment and removal of problematic justices is a much better way to go. That can take effect and rebalance the Court immediately, without needing any cooperation from the President. A few of them already have public information that paints them as blatantly guilty of accepting bribes, which is reason enough for removal. Also, every single one of them that voted to abolish Roe v. Wade lied about their intentions of doing so in their Senate confirmation hearings, which were taken under oath. Lying under oath during a Senate hearing is also a perfectly valid cause for impeachment and removal.
The trouble is in getting enough votes in the Senate to convict and remove, after the House votes to impeach. Even the best case midterm scenario for the Dems doesn’t give them enough Senate seats to have that much of a supermajority on their own. Even in the best case, they’ll still have to get at least a few Republicans on their side in order to complete these impeachments and actually make a difference.