Following up on a promise President Joe Biden made during the 2020 campaign, the White House announced Friday the creation of a presidential commission to analyze the arguments “for and against Supreme Court reform, including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals.”
Slogan to not use:
DEFUND THE SUPREME COURT!
This is why I come to TPM first. The snark game is epic
Matt Gaetz is an attorney, and he’ll soon have plenty of free time.
Easy for you to say. You’re a professional.
Excellent. Put the SC members on notice to think long and hard before they decide to play politics.
Not going to let him live that down, are you?
(There was a lot more to what he said, especially if we include context!)
Congress should bribe them all into retirement. I’m completely serious about that. $25 million pension for the first justice to tender their resignation (Breyer, obviously), $20 million for the second (probably Alito or Thomas), $15 million for the third (this is where I think Roberts would cash out), and a floor of $10 million for the rest. I bet you’d get all of them except Kagan and Justice Handmaid’s Tale…
Thinking is hard after an all-night bender with Squi.
You’ve suggested this before, and in general I love the idea, but do you really want to start a bidding war between the tax-payer and our right-wing oligarchs?
BiPartisaN? Libtard socialiSTS anD Rinos? WheRe Is biLL baRR? diamoNd and SiLk?
Or just defund all their clerks, so they have to actually write and research the cases themselves, not hang out at cocktail parties and just sign off on what their clerks wrote.
Barf would be gone in a New York Minute.
Defund the Help! @cervantes
The pay isn’t very good but the job satisfaction is off the charts
The oligarchs can’t bribe them directly the way Congress can. And I don’t really care who pays them what after they’re retired.
Justice Kennedy disagrees with this assessment.
Biden is naming some three-dozen legal minds to serve on the commission
What is a three-dozen legal mind?
Anyway:
The commission will be co-chaired by Bob Bauer, an Obama White House counsel who also led an Obama-era presidential elections commission and then served as a top Biden campaign lawyer.
Bob’s an excellent choice. Intellectual honesty is pretty much his middle name.
As for these:
Also joining the commission are prominent civil rights attorneys, including Sherrilyn Ifill […] The more right-leaning members include Jack Goldsmith, who served in top roles in the George W. Bush Justice Department
We recently discussed Ms. Ifill very briefly.
And Jack Goldsmith is … not too, too awful, for a Republican.
What did I just say?
Why do you think I said it.
I’m happy about this - I didn’t read this as carefully as I probably should have, but I have to wonder how long this commission will take in its deliberations.
The commission won’t exist after the Biden administration ends, unless another Dem is elected POTUS, so there is a bit of a limitation.
Now, one more question - where does the funding of this commission originate? Can the GQP Senators deny funding, possibly?
Wouldn’t that mean that well-connected graduates from places like Liberty University School of Law would have to compete for clerkships and associate positions with…people who aren’t, you know…specially selected?