10-27-2020, 01:18 PM
(10-27-2020, 01:16 PM)GMDino Wrote: It is interesting, perhaps only to me, that in this case the right's defense of the Senate blocking Obama's nomination and rushing though Trump's nomination is that...they legally could.
Which is 100% true.
They did not break any laws nor did they do anything the constitution said they could not.
(Side note: The handling was still hypocritical by the GOP as they were the ones in charge both time and played the system both times, IMHO.)
Yet in the next breath they are saying expanding the court is "wrong" because....reasons?
There is nothing legally or constitutionally stopping the Democrats (or the GOP) from expanding/packing the Supreme Court.
Pretty much. Both are violations of norms, but not illegal.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"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
"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
