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Old 01-11-2019, 05:21 PM   #151
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'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'
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Recipe for disaster:
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.

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Old 01-11-2019, 05:23 PM   #152
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It still doesn't work that way. Justice Breyer is not part of the Court of Appeals; he's ABOVE it, as a Supreme Court justice...
What? You didn´t read it properly:
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The Supreme Court refuses to consider the appeal and sends it to the federal appeals court.
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Old 01-11-2019, 05:23 PM   #153
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I dont know, but it could work no matter what:
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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Old 01-11-2019, 05:26 PM   #154
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What? You didn´t read it properly:
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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Old 01-11-2019, 05:27 PM   #155
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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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Recipe for disaster:
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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.
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Old 01-11-2019, 05:28 PM   #156
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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.
The reality of the case taken as an example shows us something different though.
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Old 01-11-2019, 05:28 PM   #157
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Recipe for disaster:
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.
How are you proposing to create space to appoint anyone? All nine justices are there for life, or until they are permanently disabled and unable to function, or until they are impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors."

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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Old 01-11-2019, 05:29 PM   #158
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The reality of the case taken as an example shows us another thing.
You had better explain that. I don't have any idea what youre talking about.
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Old 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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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.
I didn´t know. Thank you! Do you think they can work in an alliance or something?
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