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2021-04-07 Home Front: Politix

Justice Breyer Warns Dems: 'Think Long And Hard" Before Trying Any SCOTUS Court-Packing'

[Hot Air] Welcome to Stephen Breyer’s TED Talk — or at least the Supreme Court justice’s very deliberate effort to school his fellow liberals. Breyer offered an ominous warning to Democrats plotting to "reform" the court, telling Harvard Law students that they should think "long and hard" before making any changes to the institution. Court-packing à la FDR would only exacerbate the politicization around it, and erode confidence in yet another American institution of government:

Politically driven change could diminish the trust Americans place in the court, Breyer said in the prepared text of a long speech he gave remotely Tuesday to Harvard Law School students, faculty and alumni.

His talk, Breyer said, "seeks to make those whose initial instincts may favor important structural (or other similar institutional) changes, such as forms of ’court-packing,’ think long and hard before embodying those changes in law." ...

He noted, for example, that despite the court’s conservative majority, the court in the past year refrained from getting involved in the 2020 election, delivered a victory to Louisiana abortion clinics and rejected former President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

Politico suggests that this might be some sort of farewell address. The same people who are pressing for "reform" of the Supreme Court have also been demanding that Breyer retire while Democrats control the Senate ... more or less. They are still sore over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s refusal to retire while Barack Obama had the authority to choose her successor rather than Donald Trump. At age 82 (83 in August), Breyer’s getting to the point where he might not be able to plan his exit if he doesn’t act soon to go out on his own terms.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-07 11:31|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Dems who.... "think long and hard" ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-07 11:36|| 2021-04-07 11:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Sheeet man.
Obamacare is a Tax.
Wise Latina.

Whatever claim to the third stool of government it had has evaporated the last 6 months. Not even the courtesy of a show trial.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-07 12:00|| 2021-04-07 12:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Politically driven change could diminish the trust Americans place in the court, Breyer said

Decade late and a few trillion short. I trust the courts to prop up the establishment and fuck the little people.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-04-07 14:14|| 2021-04-07 14:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Ya'all toss out that 14th Amendment thingy decades ago about equal standing before the law to allow reverse discrimination against the majority of the population. We are just reaping what you sowed. The court was never to be an end around to Article V amending.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-07 15:42|| 2021-04-07 15:42|| Front Page Top

#5 There really are days when I believe the Democrats /want/ a civil war. Why I don't know, cause they lose no matter what pretty much in every scenario.

Posted by Silentbrick 2021-04-07 19:31|| 2021-04-07 19:31|| Front Page Top

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