A leaked video appears to show Republican officials at a meeting held by an anti-abortion group pushing for women to be prosecuted for having abortions.
The president is not a dictator. It doesn’t work like that.
Also, do you really think presidents should just be able to change the size of SCOTUS whenever they want to? What if Trump gets in and decides to shrink it to only the conservatives?
I know enough about our legislature to know that they would not approve 100 SCOTUS justices. I’m not sure why you think they would allow any president to do that unless they were a rubber stamp legislature, which they are not.
Why would the Senate even let one extra justice through?
You would need 51% of them to do that. Which would necessarily either include Manchin and Sinema or two Republicans. If you honestly believe either of those scenarios would result in even increasing the size of SCOTUS to 10 justices, you really don’t understand the U.S. government.
he could have started nominating to expand the court
The president is not a dictator. It doesn’t work like that.
Also, do you really think presidents should just be able to change the size of SCOTUS whenever they want to? What if Trump gets in and decides to shrink it to only the conservatives?
he can nominate 100 people today and make the Senate turn down every one
Which they would. So what would that accomplish?
you don’t know that
I know enough about our legislature to know that they would not approve 100 SCOTUS justices. I’m not sure why you think they would allow any president to do that unless they were a rubber stamp legislature, which they are not.
they don’t need to approve 100 but letting 6 or 7 through is possible
Why would the Senate even let one extra justice through?
You would need 51% of them to do that. Which would necessarily either include Manchin and Sinema or two Republicans. If you honestly believe either of those scenarios would result in even increasing the size of SCOTUS to 10 justices, you really don’t understand the U.S. government.
of 100 candidates having to go through all the consent hearings, I think they would come to an agreement about a few