Not sure what a white house can do about this SC decision if it comes out as in the draft....stomp the podium and mumble shit maybe
Close. How about if, shocker mid terms give Dems a greater majority so that they can alter number of SC Justices to 11 or 13 or 15 and then ram (like McConnell has done and will do again given a chance) nothing but flaming Libs to the bench. Not likely though, but stranger things have happened. Like tRump beating Shillary.
Do you think I want government that gets upset over a case and decides to destroy the SC and our government over it by packing the court with flaming libs simply because the dems lost to trump in 2016 and are bitter? remember the Miss law did not ban abortions, only after 15 weeks.
The court has been packed by Mitch the past few years, manipulating the SC's membership for partisan ends through outrageous violations of norms. Changing the numbers is the common understanding in the US but not actually what court packing is. The dem's mistake, they are bad at labels, was they should have been calling it what it is for years now.
You're saying.... It's murder in one state , but it might not be murder in another state....right? Why the right-wing is having a complete meltdown over the Supreme Court's leaked anti-abortion draft "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," Alito reportedly wrote in his opinion. "We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled." On Monday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a vehement anti-abortion advocate, called the court's alleged draft "a heck of an opinion." "Voluminously researched, tightly argued, and morally powerful," he tweeted.
So much wisdom... 'So much leaking in our world': Trump rambles about bombshell Alito draft In an interview with David Brody for CBN released on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump reacted to the news that the Supreme Court already has a draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would fully overturn Roe v. Wade. "Well, we don't know exactly if that's true, because it was certainly something that they're working on it would imagine, I don't think anyone made it up," said Trump. "It sounded like him. He's a great man. By the way. He's a tremendous guy. But as a justice, he's just fantastic. And, and you have some, some great ones up there now. But we have to find out what that means. And somebody's going to do something about it. Are they going to try and change it? Is it real, nobody really knows." "And they don't know who leaked it," Trump continued. "I will say the leak was a terrible thing. You're just not used to that for the Supreme Court. We see it so much leaking in our world, in your world in my world. And although not so much. Now, it's very interesting. You know, you try and cover those leaks, but you've never seen it, or they've rarely seen it. In the Supreme Court. It was very shocking, I think. I think it was very bad thing for the court."
If they won the election in 2016 then they could have nominated 2 justices to shape the court. Dems just thought it was the "horror" or trump but it was GOP control for SC appointments. Mitch did what I would have expected Chuck to do in similar situation...
How Samuel Alito Is Like Donald Trump https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/samuel-alito-and-donald-trump-end-roe.html
In 2017 Mitch lowered the threshold from 60 to 51 for the SC. Prior to this the dems did change the rules for lower courts as Mitch was hard blocking all nominees and pretty much all other business of the Obama admin but they left the SC process alone in deference to it's role. Not the case with Mitch who absolutely packed the SC with far more extreme partisans he couldn't get through otherwise.