Democrats would abolish Supreme Court, elect judges, let United Nations decide | Washington Examiner
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Via: texan1211 • 3 years ago • 46 commentsBy: SecretsBedard (Washington Examiner)
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The recent decisions by the Supreme Court's conservative majority on abortion and guns appear to have pushed Democrats deeper into seeking radical changes that would shift the court back into liberal hands.
While, for many, simply packing the court with more left-wing judges was the answer before the recent decisions, a new survey found support for killing the court, electing judges, and even allowing the United Nations to have the final say.
A new Rasmussen Reports survey sponsored by the Heartland Institute, for example, found that 39% of Democrats would let the U.N. reverse Supreme Court decisions it viewed as human rights violations. The reversal of Roe vs. Wade could fall into that category.
Worse, a majority (53%) of Democrats would support legislation to "abolish" the court and turn it into an elected chamber with judges picked on ballots. Just 21% of Republicans agree with that proposal.
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Most Democratic Voters Want to 'Abolish' Supreme Court
Majority of Democratic voters say SCOTUS is fundamentally racist, fundamentally sexist, now favor establishment of a new "democratically elected Court with justices chosen by the American people directly." https://t.co/9r7pb4oibO
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) July 12, 2022
And 64% of Democrats support packing the court with 13 judges, up from the current nine. Just 19% of Republicans agreed.
Driving the liberal anger, according to the survey, is a feeling among Democrats that the Supreme Court is "racist" and "sexist," despite having two black people and four women sitting on it, all but Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett being liberals.
In the survey, 56% of Democrats said the court is a "fundamentally racist" institution. And 67% said it is a "fundamentally sexist" institution.
All that said, it is no surprise that Democrats generally don't like the court. According to Rasmussen's preview of its survey being released later Tuesday: "In the wake [of] a recent string of decisions strengthening the Second Amendment, reining in the power of the Environmental Protection Agency, and ending the constitutional right to an abortion, however, Democratic voters mostly disapprove of the Supreme Court. Only 33% of Democrats view the court favorably, while 63% have an unfavorable opinion of the court, including 40% of Democrats who have a Very Unfavorable view of the Supreme Court."
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So the WE takes some some random survey and are blowing it up to get you all riled up?
That's just a outright lie.
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The whole "article" is a joke.
Hyperpartisan bullshit is more like. I wish we could have real discussions here, but the whole place is left/right with very little in the center.
Was I talking to you? HINT: No I wasn't. Bugger off.
I'll be ignoring all comments from the Seeder then. Bye bye.
Agreed.
It always comes down to extremely conservative, low factual reporting and questionable sources with some posters.
Seems like Democrats are simply realizing that they may need to mirror conservatives who have clearly long believed the ends justify the means. Nearly every conservative justice swore in their confirmation hearings that Roe was settled law and that they would respect settle law and they would definitely not be "activist justices", yet here we are. And conservatives who support them don't care about their lies, they don't care about the slimy tactics used by McConnell to stop Garlands confirmation and secure ACB's confirmation. They don't care if it's breaking some unwritten rules or skirting the law if the ends justify the means. And the fact is stacking the court isn't illegal, it's just one of those unwritten rules in congress that Republicans cry and whine to high heaven if Democrats suggest using it yet it's clear Republicans wouldn't hesitate if they felt they needed to break that rule to give them a political win. Democrats are tired of fighting with both hands tied behind their backs while scum like Mitch McConnell or dishonest Donald slap them around "owning the libs" to the cheers of his deplorable sycophants.
I think it would be stupid to expect Republicans to "fight fair", so I support Democrats using whatever legal tactics they need to in order to move our nation forward away from the deplorable right wing conservative swamp that the Mango Mussolini inspired.
Lol If that were true., the Republicans could have packed the Court and overturned Roe decades ago. Shit, even Trump didn't pack the Court.
And yet again, the people who claim Trump "broke norms" and threatened democracy are more than happy to break every norm in the book to implement their desires.
I got a better idea. Let's keep the Constitution as is and keep the SCOTUS as is and keep the nominating process for judges the same and let them have lifetime terms as we do now and disband the United Nations and tell the current non US members that are not our allies to get the "F" out of the country.