jimnyc
05-19-2019, 11:08 AM
This was briefly discussed in the past and will now come back with the elections.
Since Trump won and shifted the supreme court - now the Dems would like to move the goal posts and add more justices to the court so they can have a lead - aka packing the courts.
What WON'T they do in order to get votes?
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Boston Globe: Pete Buttigieg Wants to Pack the Courts
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has endorsed a plan crafted by one of his former Harvard classmates to reverse the conservative shift of the Supreme Court by packing it with five additional justices.
The policy was detailed in a Boston Globe profile on Saturday that explored how Buttigieg’s Harvard connections helped boost his political career (“Mayor Pete and the Order of the Kong: How Buttigieg’s Harvard pals helped spur his rise in politics“).
The profile highlighted Buttigieg’s policy toward the Supreme Court, which he first floated during a CNN town hall:
[Ganesh] Sitaraman, a constitutional law professor and longtime adviser to Senator Elizabeth Warren, inspired one of the few original policy proposals of Buttigieg’s candidacy thus far.
At the CNN town hall in March, Buttigieg floated his friend’s idea of transforming the Supreme Court by expanding the size of the court and directing the Republican-appointed justices and the Democrat-appointed justices to unanimously pick another five justices from the lower courts to join them. Sitaraman’s idea, which he published in the Yale Law Journal, is to depoliticize the court by forcing the court’s liberal and conservative members to agree on new judges. “If we want to save that institution, I think we better be ready to tune it up as well,” Buttigieg told voters in New Hampshire.
Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/05/19/boston-globe-pete-buttigieg-wants-to-pack-the-courts/
Since Trump won and shifted the supreme court - now the Dems would like to move the goal posts and add more justices to the court so they can have a lead - aka packing the courts.
What WON'T they do in order to get votes?
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Boston Globe: Pete Buttigieg Wants to Pack the Courts
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has endorsed a plan crafted by one of his former Harvard classmates to reverse the conservative shift of the Supreme Court by packing it with five additional justices.
The policy was detailed in a Boston Globe profile on Saturday that explored how Buttigieg’s Harvard connections helped boost his political career (“Mayor Pete and the Order of the Kong: How Buttigieg’s Harvard pals helped spur his rise in politics“).
The profile highlighted Buttigieg’s policy toward the Supreme Court, which he first floated during a CNN town hall:
[Ganesh] Sitaraman, a constitutional law professor and longtime adviser to Senator Elizabeth Warren, inspired one of the few original policy proposals of Buttigieg’s candidacy thus far.
At the CNN town hall in March, Buttigieg floated his friend’s idea of transforming the Supreme Court by expanding the size of the court and directing the Republican-appointed justices and the Democrat-appointed justices to unanimously pick another five justices from the lower courts to join them. Sitaraman’s idea, which he published in the Yale Law Journal, is to depoliticize the court by forcing the court’s liberal and conservative members to agree on new judges. “If we want to save that institution, I think we better be ready to tune it up as well,” Buttigieg told voters in New Hampshire.
Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/05/19/boston-globe-pete-buttigieg-wants-to-pack-the-courts/