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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 342: Biden: His Time
cerna_zelva 11/09/20 1:23:49 PM #275:	xp1337 posted... I mean, they effectively have done this by other means already. They blocked Obama from filling judicial vacancies, leaving over a hundred empty seats and just letting those courts go on short-staffed until they got a Republican president and could then pack them themselves. 5/9 of the SCOTUS justices were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote. shit's broken already Court expansion is really only a band-aid and not a permanent solution but something needs to be done. The correct approach is to close the loopholes that let one party unilaterally block appointments like that. Perhaps by setting a time limit for senate to confirm appointments before defaulting to the presidential nominee <cite>cerna_zelva posted [p:946951253] in Politics C... [t:79094907]...</cite> <quote>xp1337 posted... </cite> <quote>I mean, they effectively have done this by other means already. They blocked Obama from filling judicial vacancies, leaving over a hundred empty seats and just letting those courts go on short-staffed until they got a Republican president and could then pack them themselves. 5/9 of the SCOTUS justices were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote. shit's broken already Court expansion is really only a band-aid and not a permanent solution but something needs to be done.</quote>The correct approach is to close the loopholes that let one party unilaterally block appointments like that. Perhaps by setting a time limit for senate to confirm appointments before defaulting to the presidential nominee </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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