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pscot

(21,044 posts) Fri Nov 1, 2013, 08:24 PM Nov 2013

The Republicans are planning a putsch

Last edited Sat Nov 2, 2013, 11:53 AM - Edit history (1)

. This trash about Obama packing the DC Appeals court has to be smacked down with a big stick. The Nukular option along with some serious calling out. The repukes are staging a putsch to take over the courts.

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The Republicans are planning a putsch (Original Post) pscot Nov 2013 OP

They have been doing that for a looooong time...this is all part of what the Fundies have been up to VanillaRhapsody Nov 2013 #1

Makes me sick...we will eventually see children malnourished Tippy Nov 2013 #2

and yet the idea that POTUS could pack the supreme court is reviled. grasswire Nov 2013 #3

It isn't even actually packing starroute Nov 2013 #4

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)

1. They have been doing that for a looooong time...this is all part of what the Fundies have been up to

Reply to pscot (Original post)

Fri Nov 1, 2013, 08:32 PM

Nov 2013

The Fundies have been packing .....everything...every office down to dog catcher. Everyplace they could squeeze in a Fundy they do it. They are staging a putsch to take over the whole country...

Tippy

(4,610 posts)

2. Makes me sick...we will eventually see children malnourished

Reply to VanillaRhapsody (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 1, 2013, 08:35 PM

Nov 2013

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

3. and yet the idea that POTUS could pack the supreme court is reviled.

Reply to pscot (Original post)

Fri Nov 1, 2013, 10:45 PM

Nov 2013

POTUS has the power to appoint more justices. Perhaps that's the only remedy for the juggernaut Republicans have constructed through gerrymandering and election manipulation.

starroute

(12,977 posts)

4. It isn't even actually packing

Reply to pscot (Original post)

Fri Nov 1, 2013, 11:17 PM

Nov 2013

When Roosevelt tried to expand the Supreme Court to more than nine judges, that was a deliberate attempt to route around a conservative majority that was striking down his legislative accomplishments.

Nobody is trying to pack the 9th Circuit Court. It's three judges short of its normal quote. Obama is trying to bring it back up to par. End of story.

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