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****ing RBG calls adding seats "packing"

Posted on: October 22, 2020 at 10:35:38 CT

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"Nine seems to be a good number. It's been that way for a long time," she said, adding, "I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court."

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/24/744633713/justice-ginsburg-i-am-very-much-alive

Filling empty seats has never, ever been called "court packing". You are a ****ing retard.

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Biden lied and won't answer the SC packing issue - Sal MU

- 10/22 10:11:06

GOP has already packed the court as previously described. - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:26:17

GOP already packed the court: Not even remotely true and - BH O'bonga MU - 10/22 10:45:41

Well, if you use his made up definition of since they - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:47:09

He's being dishonest and doesn't particularly care what any - BH O'bonga MU - 10/22 10:58:27

Filling vacant seats is not packing the court (nm) - Sal MU

- 10/22 10:31:09

Refusing to fill vacant seats for two years despite the - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:36:00

RE: Refusing to fill vacant seats for two years despite the - BH O'bonga MU - 10/22 10:49:03

However, if you make up your own definition it works well - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:50:16

The other party does not have to agree to - Sal MU

- 10/22 10:45:28

For 2 years? - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:40:12

Yes. 2 years. Court packing also applies to lower courts - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:43:12

Not approving nominees you don't like is not packing - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:44:14

What was the vote on those nominees? Can you point - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:45:22

You don't need to advance a nomination you don't agree - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:46:24

This is awesome. Still retarded(nm) - dangertim MU

- 10/22 10:28:47

It is amazing what you can rationalize if you simply - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:29:46

Or if you refuse to acknowledge facts. Nm - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:30:48

****ing RBG calls adding seats "packing" - dangertim MU

- 10/22 10:35:38

Reducing the size of the court by refusing to fill - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:38:47

The Senate didn't refuse to fill seats they just refused to - sprintcar STL - 10/22 10:42:24

Really? What was the vote on those nominees? Nm - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:43:50

I almost feel back for Sparky for making such a fool of - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:43:33

You should take Will Rogers' advice. When you find - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:44:46

Talking to yourself is odd - typing to yourself more so(nm) - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:45:21

Then perhaps you should stop. Nm - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:46:28

No sped(nm) - DollarSigns MU - 10/22 10:41:00

He is precisely what the left needs if they are to stay - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:42:54

Sparklefacts=fiction(nm) - DollarSigns MU - 10/22 10:33:23

no, you made up a new definition - Sal MU

- 10/22 10:31:29

No. I just pointed out a different way to do it. You refuse - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:32:46

packing the courts has always meant adding seats - Sal MU

- 10/22 10:49:51

GOP already added seats...after they reduced the size of the - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:51:48

If those seats were still there, they didn't - Sal MU

- 10/22 10:57:26

Packing the court has always referred to adding to the - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:33:41

The Senate reduced the size of the court to 8 for over - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:40:30

So you are saying that a reduction of one, followed by - Outsider MU - 10/22 10:42:45

9 is larger than 8. That's math. Nm - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:52:47

But you started with 9. You now have nine. Expansion? (nm) - Outsider MU - 10/22 10:59:14

He keeps digging - quite amusingly(nm) - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:44:39

Oh, this board is loaded with hypocrites and liars like you - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:54:28

I don't know if the board is full of stupid people - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:55:47

Show me where they reduced the size of the court to - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:42:06

You have to give the Dems credit... - Outsider MU - 10/22 10:38:29

The modern dem voters truly don't think - they emote - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:39:53

You attempt to hide your hypocrisy with semantics. Nm - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:42:19

I will not say Sen. Graham was not highly hypocritical - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:48:07

Not just Graham. Grassley, McConnell, and just about - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 12:14:46

I was not inclined to believe it - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:32:43

But the dems are not talking about packing the court with - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:28:19

You are hypocritical. Just because McConnell has found a - SparkyStalcup MU - 10/22 10:29:59

He's using the numbers he has to fill vacant seats - Sal MU

- 10/22 10:32:02

Using the historical definition of the term he absolutely - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 10/22 10:31:54