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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell just explained that this a "project"
This project ... is the most important thing that the Senate and an administration of like mind which we ended up having could do for the country, McConnell said. Putting strict constructionists, relatively young, on the courts for lifetime appointments is the best way to have a long-term positive impact on America. And today is a seminal moment in that effort.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/06/kavanaugh-confirmation-mcconnell-877474
Baitball Blogger
(46,750 posts)Supreme Court.
Let's see, where was Scalia at in his reasoning before he died? Oh, yes, that it was okay to discriminate against people of color.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)with this very goal in mind. All of it, the gerrymandering, the stacking the courts, the voter restrictions, and the outright cheating...all part of their plan since there was no honest way for a small minority of people to gain control of the government given the old rules (so they are making new ones).
mitch96
(13,919 posts)Even to the point of loosing the house and senate, they wanted a conservative court for a long time. Congress swings right and left but the court stays the same for a long time...
Now my question is WHY..... what are those guys cooking up??
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dalton99a
(81,543 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,588 posts)"Activist judges" are those who decide in a way contrary to the way the Right Wing wants.
TNLib
(1,819 posts)I've always thought of that as a bunch of bunk and nonsense.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Although, it might be tough to get him to hand over his power.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Also completely nuke the filibuster.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)underpants
(182,848 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)A massive and painful heart attack would be wonderful.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)i despise him.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)JudyM
(29,251 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Yes, Indeed.
bdamomma
(63,913 posts)he hates women. I think he would be very happy to curtail/end women's voting or am I just overly paranoid.
Ace Rothstein
(3,177 posts)dalton99a
(81,543 posts)CrispyQ
(36,487 posts)woodsprite
(11,917 posts)Maybe these guys drink the blood of the young whose futures they screw over.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)I would piss my pants before I pissed on him to put out the fire.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)andym
(5,445 posts)Block Obama's lower court appointments
Annoy Reid into using the nuclear option to remove 60-vote threshold for lower courts (mistake by Reid?)
Stonewall Merrick Garland for almost a year.
With Trump in hand, use nuclear option to remove 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court Justices (using Reid as excuse)
Appoint Gorsuch with 54 votes
Get Kennedy to retire.
Appoint Kavanaugh with 50 (51 potential votes).
The goal: overturn Roe V Wade, civil rights expansions
underpants
(182,848 posts)If I'm not mistaken.
leftieNanner
(15,137 posts)for federal judgeships all over the country.
CrispyQ
(36,487 posts)so he & his putrid offspring never have to go to jail for the crimes they've committed. If the rest of the GOP agenda is enacted as well, so be it, but Trump is after expanded pardon power.
anarch
(6,535 posts)And (unless term limits are done away with--certainly a possibility, since that wasn't in the original constitution) probably also the executive branch, and demographics are not looking good for the odds of the straight white Christian Male maintaining hegemony amongst the voting population going forward...packing the judicial branch with ideologues of their stripe is their last chance to hold on to real power in the future.
As I've seen pointed out, one of the main attractions of the "constructionist" interpretation is that the Constitution was written by white male landowners, and meant to protect their interests as such, and during a period when slavery was a major factor in their economy. Before any amendments, the document doesn't really explicitly address civil rights. Obviously what it turns into is simply picking the parts of the original document that suit your interests.
Anyway, I think that's "the project." Entrenching white male privilege and perpetuating our current wealth structure, at the bottom of it.
Johonny
(20,864 posts)he'll die without ever doing anything positive for the American people and he knows it. He gives not a shit for any of us. Never has, never will.
In It to Win It
(8,267 posts)How exactly did we let them claim these ridiculous loaded terms like "constructionist", "patriot", and "constitutionalist"?
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)They have no bearing on reality.
Maintaining the white male dominance is the real goal, but its not a good selling slogan.
CrispyQ
(36,487 posts)One pundit put it this way: The dems are good at policy but suck at politics.
ck4829
(35,078 posts)Right?
0rganism
(23,960 posts)sure would be nice to see some Democratic leaders and strategists emerge from this inferno.
Fla Dem
(23,711 posts)But we have to also have the House and Senate. The President can request an increase in the number of SC Justices, but that would then have to be approved by Congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States