Progressive power

Posted 5/6/21

Packing the court was rejected by Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a bad idea. We’re not going to allow the most radical liberal movement in American history to destroy the Rule of Law for partisan purposes.

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Progressive power

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Packing the court was rejected by Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a bad idea. We’re not going to allow the most radical liberal movement in American history to destroy the Rule of Law for partisan purposes.

Why do they want more Supreme Court justices? To make the court liberal so that when they fail at the ballot box they can get the Supreme Court to enact their agenda. That’s been a liberal dream for decades, and they’re willing to destroy the Rule of Law as we know it to achieve their goal.

I want the American people to know what the filibuster means to you. It’s a tool we have as Republicans to make sure that extreme ideas, like turning the Supreme Court from 9 to 13 justices can’t happen without Republican buy-in. It’s the check and balance on the desire to federalize the elections through HR1. It’s the end of making DC a state unless you can get some Republicans to agree that’s a good idea.

Conservatives care about the court. Our goal is to make sure that people on the court do not become legislators in a robe.

Their goal is to add to the court judges who will do Congress’s job: creating laws, not interpreting laws.

I’m asking Sen. Chuck Schumer to think about the consequences to the country and the court. And where does this end?

Will they break California into 3 states? Will there be 20 Supreme Court justices?

What have I learned in this whole process? How compliant the media is with this.

Mitch McConnell constantly says it’s neve reported that Justices Breyer and Ginsburg were against expanding the court because it destroys the court.

The Joe Biden who was progressive but reasonable needs to emerge because it’s hard for me to sit down and try to find a way to solve problems when his party is trying to destroy the country.

They’re going to try to make DC a state. The Constitution created the District of Columbia for a purpose: that the place we govern ourselves, nationally, one state won’t have an advantage over the others. If you’re worried about people in the District of Columbia being disenfranchised, they can participate in Maryland politics.

This is a power grab. Packing the court is a power grab. HR 1 is a power grab. The filibuster elimination is a power grab.

Lindsey Graham, Washington

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