Respectfully, i disagree:
repugnicans have tens of Billions in tax breaks to offer their oligarchic masters and donors
Period
They donât want to go down this road. Republicans seem to believe that they have the divine right to be in charge. Thatâs scary, because they will pull stunts like this when they donât get their way. Remember when Republicans kept talking about Obama as if he was going to single-handedly destroy Democracy? They are working in lockstep to destroy it.
Actually your comment could be broadened to say that âjudges must toe the ruling party lineâ, which, of course, is not their job.
So Pat Toomey is concerned about Judicial activismâŚ
Uh PatâŚhow about Senatorial activism on your partâŚ
Siding with Mitch McConnell in stealing a Supreme Court nomination from the Obama administrationâŚ
And almost single handedly working to gut the Export Import bank by blue slipping four Senate Banking Committee nominations to fill vacancies on the Bankâs board.
The Bank board lacks the quorum needed to approve loan guarantees for US export projects. The problem has existed from the start of the Trump administration. The majority of the Senate has strongly supported the Bank. Toomeyâs blockage is holding up what is now conservatively estimated to be well over 30 Billion dollars of US exports and the jobs that go with them and the director nominations were approved by the committee almost unanimously.
If he keeps up his opposition, the Bank, which is self funded by user fees and commissions, could soon collapse. Over sixty other nations worldwide have export finance agencies like the bank and aggressively use them to generate domestic exports, especially China which has been pushing infrastructure and development projects worldwide, particularly in Africa.
Tell us again how the GOP is all about jobs PatâŚ
I think the next point is that PA judges are elected. With a new map drawn, it doesnât seem like they could stack the court even if they pull this bs stunt off.
Thatâs the rub. The gerrymandered, Repub majority legislature is threatening to impeach direct-elected state supreme court judges because they possibly would eliminate some of Repubs in office due to gerrymander.
Their reasoning? Itâs unconstitutional.
Too funny.
To the right-wing there are no rules, no standards, no shame any more.
It is all out war all the time against anything that stands in the way of right-wing power.
It is a different approach: impeach the judges who made the correct call. I donât know how they appoint judges to the PA Supreme Court, but if the Democratic governor gets to appoint, I donât see where this gets the GOPâexcept more publicity as a party that canât win unless it cheats big time.
You begin to see what the founders were complaining about.
to impeach convict PA state Supreme Court Justices
If the republicans were indeed successful in removing the Justices (each in a separate proceeding) Governor Wolff (D) would then appoint replacements to serve until the next election -pending senate confirmation. During all of this upheaval the current decision of the court, and hence the new congressional map, will stand. There is no win here for PA republicans except to stir up their base.
Well actually, nearly all the statewide offices are held by Democrats because they donât have to contend with the gerrymandering issue. All the legislative offices have been horribly skewed for years through the GOPâs machinations.
But in the meantime the decision stands. Impeaching the judges wonât change that.
So has anyone brought a similar suit about the state legislatureâs districts? The analysis would obviously have to be bigger, but the state constitution would still apply.
Itâs not about quotas.
Itâs about getting government out of our lives. Just draw some damn squares. Stop getting all âartsyâ with your districts, conservatives.
Districts shouldnât have to change that much. Right?
Thanks to Facebook and other big data, itâs now also quite easy to draw squares that will disenfranchise people. Gummint is always going to be in the part of our lives thatâs about electing a gummint.
BUT, would the SCOTUS weigh and rule whether or not there is any difference between the Republican Party and Organized Crime (?) and then nullify any successful effort to oust the Democratic PA jurors.
i.e. - itâs defacto Organized Crime.
Who owns those bastards?
Koch?
Tea Party?
AFP?