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We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. "At least," as one man said, "there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
Erwin N. Griswold
Taxes: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension.
Anonymous
His plan to expand SCOTUS to 15 justices was rejected. His ability to stack the court with New Deal sympathizers obviously did not fail. He was the only 4 term President so he was given an extra ability to appoint more justices than any other President would have been able to. He appointed 8 of the 9!
Last edited by devil21; 05-22-2018 at 12:36 PM. Reason: 9 not 12, duh
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul
"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
I wish somebody had rolled Roosevelt down the stairs.
So what? Taft was only a one-term President, and he appointed 5 justices. The point is that every President tries to appoint people who share his views. But many times it backfires -- Teddy Roosevelt, for example, appointed Oliver Wendell Holmes because he thought he would be a strong supporter of the antitrust laws. It turned out otherwise. Some justices turn out to be more liberal (Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren, Gerald Ford appointed John Paul Stevens, and Bush senior appointed David Souter) while some become more conservative (FDR appointed Felix Frankfurter).
In a 1984 speech Former Chief Justice William Rehnquist pointed out that while there's nothing wrong with "court-packing", it doesn't always work. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.44db60245f5d
We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. "At least," as one man said, "there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
Erwin N. Griswold
Taxes: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension.
Anonymous
You can say that about any type of job or anyplace where you recruit someone. The difference is that in this case(no pun) the people your hiring can't be fired and while there are a few busts(the Ryan Leafs of Supreme Court picks) most of the time the justices go with the views of the president picking them. If they are going to try to pack the court with socialist we should try to stop them instead of leave it chance that the picks backfire.
Leaving the interpretation of what the CONstitution meant to nine clowns in gowns was just another asinine aspect of it. Should have stuck with the Articles.
The Creature from Jekyll Island:
We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!
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