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Home Front: Politix
BREAKING NEWS: Nancy Pelosi and senior Dems kill their own party's bid to pack the Supreme Court with four more liberal judges by saying they WON'T support House bill
2021-04-15
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi effectively killed Democrats' proposal to expand the Supreme Court by four seats

  • House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler will announce details of the bill Thursday

  • Pelosi said: 'I support the president's commission to study such a proposal'

  • Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin also said Thursday he's not ready to back the proposal

  • The Supreme Court now leans conservative, with Trump appointing three

  • Republicans warned during the election that Democrats would try and change it

  • Biden in 2005 said packing the court with more liberal judges was 'power grab'

Posted by:Skidmark

#13  
laughter heard...come join in the laughter!
Posted by: Lumpy Poodle3626   2021-04-15 23:39  

#12  ^ that's kimchi theater
Posted by: Hupotch Prince of the Hemps6429   2021-04-15 17:47  

#11  ... or this is a head fake, and they'll do some bullshit 'modifications' to the bill to satisfy the alleged moderates and push something substantially similar for a floor vote in six weeks.

If I want kabuki theater, gimme some K-pop chicks in hot, slutty clothes.
Posted by: Raj   2021-04-15 17:34  

#10  Trial balloon. It didn't fly.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-04-15 15:59  

#9  So, four more liberal SCOTUS judges isn't enough and they are holding out for six?
Posted by: Glenmore   2021-04-15 15:54  

#8  Isn't there a Parliamentary Rule that only allows people who voted *Against* to add "Corrections" to a prior bill? So this would be a "Robert's Rules of Order" tactic.
Posted by: magpie   2021-04-15 15:47  

#7  To Combat Right-Wing 'Assault' on Democracy, New Bill Would Add Four Seats to Supreme Court


You want 'democracy'? That would be making all the seats open for election say 10 years with a single second term for another 10. You think those who vote for things like gay marriage would have been around for the second?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-04-15 15:28  

#6  Literally nothing these buffoons say or do can be taken at face value.

They don't truly believe even half of what they post or posture or toot or tweet. It's just a game for them, one with very lucrative side hustles attached
Posted by: Angeng Platypus7186   2021-04-15 14:49  

#5  Yeah. File under "head fake..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-04-15 14:43  

#4  There's always room for jello and always time for kabuki.
Posted by: Cesare   2021-04-15 14:42  

#3  dang! was "Bettin'-on-the-Bee" ...down $1
Posted by: Warthog   2021-04-15 14:33  

#2  This is how its being reported on Reddit:

"To Combat Right-Wing 'Assault' on Democracy, New Bill Would Add Four Seats to Supreme Court | 'This bill marks a new era where Democrats finally stop conceding the Supreme Court to Republicans.'"
Posted by: Angstrom   2021-04-15 14:16  

#1  So,,, they introduced it to placate their far left nutcases but couldn't support it?
Posted by: 3dc   2021-04-15 14:02  

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