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Follow the Judiciary Act of 1801 to reduce the Court's size to five members. Take the president of the court out of the equation. Make two free appointments in 2017 and 2018. Suddenly three fifths of the supreme court are already puppets in your pockets. Last edited by Alonsua; 01-11-2019 at 05:25 PM. |
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01-11-2019, 05:23 PM | #153 |
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By the time three judges have died, you will have a huge share of the population convinced they are being murdered and someone is covering it up. And that's going to damage the legitimacy of the new party; they may disagree with verdicts, but I think killing judges will be seen as a direct attack on the rule of law. And Americans are obsessed with legality.
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01-11-2019, 05:26 PM | #154 |
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What you said about the Supreme Court sending something to the federal appeals court is just nonsense in terms of American judicial processes. A case does not get to the Supreme Court in the first place unless it has already gone to an appeals court. So the appeals court has already given a verdict, and when the Supreme Court refuses to hear the case, all that happens is that the already given verdict remains in place; there is no basis for the appeals court taking any further action.
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What do you mean by "president of the court"? That term is not used in the United States, at least not for the Supreme Court.
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01-11-2019, 05:29 PM | #158 |
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You had better explain that. I don't have any idea what youre talking about.
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01-11-2019, 05:32 PM | #159 |
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One other thing, Alonsua. You postulate that the new party gets 70% of the vote in an election, and elects 70% of Congress. That can work for the House. But in the Senate, only 1/3 of the senators are up for election in any given year. If 70% of them are the new party, that's 23, which isn't anywhere near a majority, and I think it can be counted on that the established parties will team up to block anything coming from the new party in the House. Even in the second election, two years later, you will only get up to 46 senators, still not a majority. So if your new party is going to try to enact anything radical, they will have to sustain support for it for over four years—or conceal anything provocative in their agenda for the same span of time, and then enact it by surprise.
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