06-20-2022, 04:04 PM
(06-20-2022, 03:22 PM)hollodero Wrote: First, I have a somewhat technical question about that. Could a republican majority in the senate, pretty much a certainty after the midterms and quite possibly beyond, simply pull the nuclear option, expand the court to 13 judges and put 6 strict Trump loyalists in there. I'd think they could easily do that, but I'm not certain and the internet doesn't really answer that for me.
No. Justices are appointed by the President. The Senate cannot appoint a Justice.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
