04-04-2017, 01:48 AM
(04-03-2017, 07:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I absolutely hate what Congress has become. There was a time not too long ago that if the nominee was free of controversy he or she was nominated regardless if you agreed with their views.
That's part of the problem. That "rubber stamp" bipartisan agreement is what has led to politicization of the court, and ultimately the current situation. The SCOTUS would be entirely non-partisan if the Senate had been doing its job the last 40-50 years.
If neither party agreed to a politically biased judge, the court would not have bias and this would not be an issue. The ideal SCOTUS, IMO, is 2-5-2.
The far more concerning issue is the continued erosion of the Senate as a bipartisan legislature. That's the only check we have on the majority party. Budget reconciliation is almost as abhorrent as the nuclear option. If McConnell goes down this path, it's only a matter of time until the Senate becomes more or less a rubber stamp of the House.
But even signaling this is under consideration has probably already done the damage. The Senate is the last firewall to stupid and irresponsible majority rule. No one has done more damage to Democracy than Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell.
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