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11 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
What this weekend has proven to me is...many, many liberals don't have a clue what court packing is...they just use it as a catch all for "Anything we don't like regarding judges".
I have a lot of problems with the judiciary:
1. They overstep their bounds.
2. Lifetime appts are just...bad.
3. National orders from local federal judges.
4. Not giving judges a full vote on the senate floor (true for Garland, true for Obama judges...and true for Bush judges).
But none of these things...none of them...are 'court packing'.

NONE OF THEM.

Court packing is something that autocratic demagogues do. It is something that happens in banana republics, and third world failed states.
There are totally logical legitimate arguments about what GOP and McConnell have done.

As there are about what Democrats did before that.

But Dems seem unable to make those arguments.
And again...show me a SINGLE DEMOCRAT that supported this initiative.

Biden, Obama, Reid, Schumer...they certainly didn't.

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12 Oct
So, from my friend @haroldpollack and Lindsey Leninger. Good piece, I recommend.

I do have...comments (don't I always?).

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11 Oct
Since:
1. Definitions no longer matter...
2. We aren't using our brains at all...

I am going to proclaim that David Souter stole a seat for liberals from conservatives, and therefore, the Sotomayor seat is illegitimate.
The best part:

The nine senators voting against Souter included Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. These senators, along with seven others, painted Souter as a right-winger in the mold of Robert Bork.

Wall Street Journal opinion piece called Souter a "liberal jurist"...
"... and said Rudman took "pride in recounting how he sold Mr. Souter to gullible John Sununu as a confirmable conservative. They both sold the judge to Bush, who wanted above all else to avoid a confirmation battle."

wsj.com/articles/SB951…
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11 Oct
One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's wishes is that nobody in America would ever, ever consider packing the Supreme Court... And she had the courage to say that.

Today's Democrats and Republicans don't deserve people like RBG and Scalia.

@JoeBiden @KamalaHarris
npr.org/2019/07/24/744…
"Nine seems to be a good number. It's been that way for a long time," she said, adding, "I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court."
"Several Democratic candidates have indicated an openness, if they were to win the presidency, to adding to the number of justices on the Supreme Court to reduce the power of the current conservative majority. Some would also like to enact term limits for Supreme Court justices."
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Pradheep J. Shanker Profile picture
11 Oct
If having a seat open, and having the President appoint someone, and then the Senate confirm or deny...is court packing...

Oy vey.
Literally anyone that says that appointing someone when a seat is OPEN, and then have the Senate confirm or reject, is COURT PACKING...

...is someone that should never be trusted on any issue ever, because they are willing to lie and twist facts to their own needs anytime.
There IS a case to be made against this, but it is NOT COURT PACKING.

It is NORM BREAKING.

There is a legitimate argument that civility demands norms, and breaking norms undermines civility. And a system without civility will eventually fall apart.
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11 Oct
I think we are really seeing different waves. The first wave was NY/NJ. The second was this summer with AZ/CA/TX/FL getting hit. Right now the epicenter is the northern central region, with WI, IL, OH. TX, CA, FL have lot of cases through out.
This is another way to visualize it.
And another...
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11 Oct
Facts are not Bouie's strong suit...he picks a narrative, and then uses his extensive talents to lie about it.
Bouie acts as if installing left wing judges hasn't been critical to the liberal agenda since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first election...

...in 1932.

We are talking almost NINE DECADES.
He also brings up the gambit about the DC circuit court, which never, ever had any chance of happening.

Instead, Dems are bringing up court packing and the filibuster...which both could EASILY happen. Who is the bigger threat then?
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