Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

No he hasn't.  Court packing has a specific definition and has had that definition since FDR's time.  I don't want anyone to expand the Supreme Court's size if you insist on being pedantic.

As far as McConnell filling all those vacancies goes, someone famous once said "elections have consequences."  Filling vacancies is not court packing and you could hardly expect McConnell to nominate a bunch of liberal judges.  At the end of the day, Trump and McConnell have gotten a lot of judges confirmed, but it has not been an extraordinary amount, compared to previous administrations.

I think it is interesting that the Ds have historically put all of their eggs in the "President" basket.  Are D's actually monarchists at heart?

Jim  

Originally Posted by James Brown

Usually when one says "the ends justify the means" in a negative or pejorative sense he is talking about folks who ignore or break the rules to achieve their ends. 

In this instance McConnell and Trump were duly elected, and they confirmed judges by the rules.  No reason for you to like the outcome of course.

On the other hand, those who argue for court packing want to discard the rules and in my opinion destroy the best branch of the government to achieve a short-term political win.  If you are looking for a legitimate group to label as the "ends justify the means" crowd, look no further than the court packers.  

And yes, I am extremely happy to have thwarted the court packer crowd in this election, using traditional, legal and perfectly normal means.

Jim

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Pot meet Kettle.  You're one to talk.    

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

We hold pretty much the same opinion on this one.....

As for that absolute turd running against Loeffler, he is a dangerously far left radical.

Originally Posted by James Brown

These issues are important too.  Personally, I think that any changes should be cautious, well reasoned, and broadly supported.  This is another reason I am a big fan of divided government.

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Regarding Warnock.....he is a Jeremiah Wright fan. The "preacher" that is famous for stating "God Damn America" in his sermons and claiming that the U.S. government created AIDS to kill African Americans. Both of which Warnock has openly defended. So yeah.....he is a turd. He and Dr King are very different people and any association attempt between the two of them is superfluous as well as ridiculous.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

He did pardon Flynn, which was great to see.

He had a crazy judge overseeing the case who went completely rogue and although the DOJ ordered him to dismiss the case against Flynn, the nutjob Sullivan wouldn't do it.  So Flynn's lawyer asked the DC circuit for a writ of mandamus ordering Sullivan to dismiss the case.  They granted the writ against Sullivan and ordered him to dismiss it.  He still wouldn't.

Then Judge Sullivan himself asked for an En Banc decision in the case, to be decided by the 10 member panel on the circuit court, totally unheard of because he's not part of the case, yet he did.

This was simply an out of control psychotic judge hellbent on making sure that Flynn was put in jail.  This crazy judge made it personal.  

We don't live in a police state, yet, but if all Judges were like Sullivan, we definitely would. 

Now as to your other charge, if you knew what the word Fascist meant, you might use it correctly, but then you might actually have to know anything at all about world history to be familiar with what the word means.  

Since you don't, you're as confused and deranged as always.