Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Bad idea when [FDR] tried to pack the court… If anything would make the court appear partisan it’d be…one side saying, ‘When we’re in power we’re going to enlarge the number of judges so we’ll have more ppl who will vote the way we want them to.’”
RBG: “Bad idea when [FDR] tried to pack the court… If anything would make the court appear partisan it’d be…one side saying, ‘When we’re in power we’re going to enlarge the number of judges so we’ll have more ppl who will vote the way we want them to.’”pic.twitter.com/e3vj0Mzo0K
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) September 19, 2020
You elect presidents, you don’t “install” them!
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reportedly went further than any other justice in voicing her displeasure that the Supreme Court had only eight justices following the death of Antonin Scalia in 2016 — an election year — calling it “not a good number.”
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Ginsburg’s resurfaced remark follows her passing late last week after she lost her the fight against her fifth bout with cancer. More
Both make sense because RBG wanted to preserve the norms. Now they want to do an end-around what she believed in to get power.
Twitter weighs in:
Today’s Democrats don’t know actual American history so they are unaware of Roosevelt’s attempt to pack the SCOTUS. Dems are only know the history they have rewritten.
— PJShan (@pjshan1) September 20, 2020
Dems think the advice/wish she allegedly uttered near death should be respected but don’t want to heed her well-considered advice here, stated while clearly lucid.
— Turtle (@trltrltrl) September 20, 2020
There is no line the Democrats won’t cross for power. They will disregard and disrespect RBG on this if they think it would serve their list for power
— ktouchs (@ktouchs) September 20, 2020
Once again, I’ll explain it for the people that have a short memory. Garland NEVER would have been confirmed because the republicans had the majority in the Senate. The GOP had the majority with 53 so it wouldn’t have mattered
— Dave Vek (@vek1217) September 20, 2020
RBG is right on this.
Packing the courts would come back and haunt the Democrats in the same way the filibuster rule has come back and bitten them in the proverbial butt.
— Barbie GC (@BarbieHitsBack) September 20, 2020
They’re all yammering on about her “dying wish” but they won’t give two shits about her saying this.
— KimmieH (@kimhr1961) September 20, 2020
Don't forget to Like Freedom Outpost on Facebook and Twitter, and follow our friends at RepublicanLegion.com.So, I expect all those Democrats bringing up her “dying wishes” will honor this wish. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Okay, okay, I couldn’t say this with a straight face.
— A Beautiful Black Sky (@PGtwentytwo) September 19, 2020
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