RE: Expanding The Supreme Court
September 26, 2020 at 11:51 am
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2020 at 12:31 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 26, 2020 at 11:47 am)Brian37 Wrote:(September 26, 2020 at 11:41 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: If you hope no one wants that, then it will Most certainly come By the hands of the other side because they certainly don’t mind having it and using it.
You better want it and take it in your hands and prepare to use it.
"Turn the other cheek" is utopian. It is a good goal for sure. But at some points in history, when the other side isn't going to play by the rules, it is hard to refrain.
I would love nothing more than for Mitch and the GOP to hold off on appointing a SCOTUS now, based on their own standards. But they are not going to do that.
All I am asking, is how do we respond? Because they have proven they are not going to play by the rules.
If there are only two players and one side doesn;t play by the rules, and there are no referees. then you must tear up the rule book and go for brokes.
Showing the statute against murder to someone who has tried to murder you on several previous occasions will not lengthen your life.
Add 2 more new justices to supreme court For each one the Republicans seated since 2016, to ensure the three stolen by the republicans are totally nullified and the outcome of their stealing 3 seats is a nightmare for their cause.
Or, unseat all three and replace them.
Or, Merge court of appeals, or even district courts with the Supreme Court and make every sitting justice on these courts also a justice of the Supreme Court.
What is clear is if the theft of the 3 is allowed to stand, and trump is unimpeached and convicted, this is the end of multiparty democracy in the US and beginning of the banana republic with lots of nuclear weapons.
The objective is not to merely make crime not pay. If Crime merely doesn’t usually pay then there is nothing lost in keep committing crimes For the off chance. The objective is to make the criminal pay a price they can never afford so the incentive to play for the odds goes away.
You may say but what happens next when republicans.... the other goal is make sure there is not next time for the republicans.
If you want a sustainable multi party system, you need to find a way to kill the coalition behind Republican Party so others less malevolent Alternatives can have room to grow, and you want to eliminate incentive for another coalition after the republicans To resort to similar tricks in the future.
It is also perfectly fine if the Democratic Party is also destroyed in the process so long as more than one party not worse then democrats emerge from the wreckage. What this country will not survive, and what is not fine by every ideal with which we’ve sold ourselves to the world And our own people these past 2 centuries, is the survival of the current Republican Party.