BiPartisaN? Libtard socialiSTS anD Rinos? WheRe Is biLL baRR? diamoNd and SiLk?
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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
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The pay isn’t very good but the job satisfaction is off the charts
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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.
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Justice Kennedy disagrees with this assessment.
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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.
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What did I just say?
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Why do you think I said it.
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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?
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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?
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I don’t want to count all my chickens in one basket, but it sounds like this could mean the GOP has to shorten SCOTUS to FUKD.
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It is given six months from start to finish.
Sadly, I must tell you that people serving on the commission may be offered a croissant or two but not much more. Costs will be quite low and not subject to Republican approval.
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“The topics it will examine include the genesis of the reform debate; the Court’s role in the Constitutional system; the length of service and turnover of justices on the Court; the membership and size of the Court; and the Court’s case selection, rules, and practices,” the White House announcement said.
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I haven’t seen something so packed since Trump’s colon after that entire bucket of ‘Extra Crispy’.
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Don’t forget their personalized Defund the Supremes coffee mugs.
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At last I understand what that “Scream” emoji is for. 
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Six months - so by fourth quarter, we should have something. OK.
Funding - you know what they say about you get what you pay for… I guess there will be no jiggery pokery with funding, but then again, will that be the best outcome for a good and favorable report? I guess I just don’t want the thing to be ineffective.
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Clarence Thomas is 72.
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Fight for 21!
In 1869, when it went to nine, the US Population was 38.5 million. Now, it’s 335 Million.
That’d be terms of 20 years on, and one year as Chief on a rotating basis. Each President would appoint 1 or 2 new per year (Biden would start them all since 85 million people - the most in history - voted for him) in staggered terms.
That would now mean 21 Circuits - and the newest appointees (Trumpers) would need to back-fill some of those openings which would unfortunately dilute their influence in their current courts.
Oh, and everyone already on the Supreme Court for 21 years already gets transferred out to Circuits and Biden appoints their successor.
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Indeed!
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