A 54 percent majority of Americans oppose increasing the number of justices who sit on the bench in a way that would give the winner of the election more influence over the court’s makeup. About a third of Americans support adding justices, 32 percent, while 12 percent have no opinion.
About 6 in 10 Republicans and independents alike oppose increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court, while Democrats are relatively split, with 45 percent supporting this and 39 percent opposing it.
Only 32 percent support increasing the number of justices to the Supreme Court (39 percent oppose, 29 percent are unsure). Just 37 percent support abolishing the filibuster so that 40 senators cannot block legislation (23 percent oppose, 39 percent are unsure). And voters are divided 35 percent to 35 percent on whether it is a good or bad idea to expand the court “so that five justices are affiliated with the Republicans, five are affiliated with the Democrats, and five are apolitical and chosen by the other 10 justices.”
So if we are looking for the average here, a plurality of just under 50% are opposed to increasing the number of Justices, while only 32% in both polls are in favor of it, with a good portion of those in favor being Democrats. Either way, the plan is unpopular and is said to have considerable resistance within the Senate itself.
Doesn't mean that it couldn't happen. But the likelihood of it happening in the aftermath of the next election is not very high, just as there is less than a good chance that you will see the Senate abandon the filibuster. These things have a habit of coming back to bite the Party that starts down these paths, and everyone at this point in time realizes that if Trump ends up with three young conservatives on the USSC, that he has Harry Reid to thank.
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While I don't agree with it I suspect we will see the end of the filibuster in the future with both parties basically strangle holding all members. Not sure how that changes with a two party system anymore.
I do think that holding the court at 9 will win out. Justices are supposed to call balls and strikes. And the justices Trump is nominating do a fantastic job doing that, even when they disagree.
I see Ch UNtruth is reckoning with a Biden win, making it possible for the Dems to consider retaliatory action against the Repugs for going against what a majority of Americans want:
Namely, that the next Justice should be decided by the winner of this election.
House dems will introduce a bill next week 4hay would limit scotus justices to max 18 years and limit presidents to max 2 scotus nominations per term.
Sounds reasonable. How does THAT poll?
Give us a prediction, Ch.
You are a brilliant polls analyst, as you have pointed out in the past.
What will the final electoral vote be?
Biden 353 (where it is right now with no toss ups) is surely too high, as the race will tighten, so where do you put Biden's victory amount when it eventually comes?
You are always proud of how right you say you have been in the past, so where do you predict the numbers will finally stand?
Herschel Walker accuses Democrats of denouncing violence 'yet you don't really mean it''We need law and order right now in the United States of America,' former Heisman
Obama/Biden = Arab Spring
Trump = Abraham Accords
"The Peace is the Prize" The President of the United States Donald Trump cares
The USSC is going to be improved with her confirmation.
A white, Conservative and Christian.
The Lost of 2016 by Hillary Continues to pay dividends.
We are waiting for Ch's prediction.
She is an extremist and Scott won't read it.
If she is approved by the Senate, any woman who is impregnated by her father, her brother, or any other family member, or is raped, she will be forced to carry the child until she gives birth.
Even pro life women, should not accept her nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/amy-coney-barrett-extremist/
Even rape and incest!
Even rape and incest!
You could rape your daughter and she would have to give birth!
I have to post it again because it matters!
If she is approved by the Senate, any woman who is impregnated by her father, her brother, or any other family member, or is raped, she will be forced to carry the child until she gives birth.
Even pro life women, should not accept her nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/amy-coney-barrett-extremist/
Even rape and incest!
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Herschel Walker accuses Democrats
How many more times are you going to spam this same BS post....along with she's great?????? Does repeating things help your shitty memory????? BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I have to post it again because it matters!
you've never posted anything that matters alky.
ever.
holy shit this is hilarious..
(Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of the right-wing Proud Boys group were expected in Portland, Oregon on Saturday as police prepared for clashes in a city that has become the epicenter of sometimes deadly political violence in the run up to the Nov. 3 election.
Governor Kate Brown on Friday declared a weekend state of emergency for Oregon’s biggest city, saying “white supremacist groups” were travelling from out of state to attend an event the Proud Boys say was organized to “end domestic terrorism.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-portland/proud-boys-rally-has-portland-in-state-of-emergency-idUSKBN26H0I8
Yeah rat white supremacists like you and CH are a real stitch !!!!!!! Sad there are so many but fear not....they and the GOP are dying off slowly!!!!
Today is my Uncle’s funeral. I just want to share this memory of him today:
My Uncle Theodore M Murphy passed away on 17 September 2020, in Chesapeake, VA. He was almost 95 years old. The main reason I’m posting here is that he made history, during WW2 he served in the Pacific as a Marine. African Americans were not allowed to join the Marine Corps at the start of the war, he was one of the first 1200 African Americans to go through Montford Point, NC in 1942. He saw action on Saipan, Peleliu, and Guadalcanal. When I was a kid, I asked him once about all the pockmarks on his face, and he told me that they were from grenade fragments and hot sand at Peleliu. I had no idea what or where Peleliu was. I believe he was part of the 16th Marine Field Depot (Segregated). He also told me the story of how he became a aircraft mechanic. He worked on Grumman Aircraft until he retired in 1982 from the NAS Oceana Dam Neck Annex in Virginia. He was the first African American aircraft mechanic I ever knew. He has a great human being and role model. I have been blessed to have positive influences throughout my life and he definitely was one of them.
You want a civil war
I didn't think that CH was a racist person but since the impeached President was sworn in, he has betrayed America.
i don't see the proud boys setting cities on fire and shooting cops.
but i do see the left doing that shit.
and no alky, i don't want civil war. however, if YOU asshats insist upon starting one, i guaran-fucking-tee you that my team will win it.
as someone tweeted recently - my people sit 20 feet up in a fucking tree, freezing our ass off for 10 hours straight in the hope of getting to shoot something. and we do this for FUN.
like i've been telling you - don't start none, won't be none. but if you insist we will oblige.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I didn't think that CH was a racist person but since the impeached President was sworn in, he has betrayed America.
says the asshat who calls black people 'negroes' on twitter.
smooth move alky. smooth move.
Even pro life women should not accept her nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, where all men and women are created equal. Women would have to carry a child to birth, even if it was rape or incest!
She would ban birth control pills!
I remember when birth control pills were available, the Catholic Church banned them, and because she is an extremist, if a case against birth control pills to the Supreme Court, she would ban them.
We have the freedom of religion, but it cannot be imposed by the law!
Mooselimbs and beaners Olinsky are racist comments about black men and women
what's racist about 0linsky, Agolf?
the NY Times publishes so MUCH fake news, one of their idiot reporters actually FELL for fake news -
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/09/25/she-thinks-its-real-nyt-journo-robin-pogrebin-falls-for-babylon-bee-story-on-nba-rbg-and-omg-were-officially-dead-now/
Senator, this is the time for you to step forward and demand that the President has to resign! You remember when Barry Goldwater went to the White House and told him to resign. You can save the American dream!
I tweeted this to Senator Romney.
Gotcha you said Mooselimbs and beaners
You admitted being a racist rodent bastard!
yup. you got me alky. there you go. there's your victory for the day. your reason for being.
The President and the first lady can't recite Pledge of Allegiance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=ewsuE-3abRQ
You just admitted being a racist rodent bastard
Obviously some people here are very anti-Christian and specifically ant-Catholic. I think "bigot" is the word used to describe those who exhibit this behavior.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s expected nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Americans United also prepared this report detailing Barrett’s troubling record on church-state separation.
“Americans United opposes the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett because her record demonstrates hostility toward church-state separation – the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom for all. The promise of the First Amendment is that the government, including our courts, will treat us all equally, regardless of our religious beliefs or whether we are nonreligious. In America, we are all free to believe or not as we choose, as long as we don’t harm others.
“Barrett does not respect this ‘do no harm’ principle. Her writings and professional affiliations with legal-advocacy groups leading the effort to weaponize religious freedom indicate that she believes religious freedom can be used as a sword to harm others, rather than as the shield the Constitution intended it to be. She has shown that she would allow claims of religious freedom to be misused to harm women, LGBTQ people, religious minorities, the nonreligious and others.
“Some will point to Barrett's religious views and personal affiliations as reasons to oppose her. But a nominee's religious beliefs are not relevant; her position on church-state separation is.
“If Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, that separation is at risk. The right to love whom you choose, the right to make decisions about your reproductive and other health care, the religious-freedom rights of students and families in our public schools, the right to decide whether your money will fund religious practices, the right to be treated the same under the law regardless of your religious or nonreligious beliefs – all are at stake. We need our courts to protect the religious freedom and rights of everyone – not just of a privileged minority.
“Since the election is already underway, the American people must be allowed to decide whether they want the next Supreme Court justice to carry on Justice Ginsburg’s legacy of defending our nation’s founding principle of religious freedom – and the vulnerable people it protects. The Senate should not consider Justice Ginsburg’s successor until after the people have spoken and the next president is inaugurated.”
Americans United’s report, “The Nomination Of Amy Coney Barrett: What’s At Stake? The Separation Of Church And State,” is available here.
Americans United is a religious freedom advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, AU educates Americans about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding religious freedom. Learn more at www.au.org.
What ever troll you are
I'm 100% in favor of the freedom of religion. But her record shows that she is not in favor of the freedom of religion separation from her legal judgments.
“Americans United opposes the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett because her record demonstrates hostility toward church-state separation – the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom for all.
what's always so interesting about these claims is the complete lack of actual examples which should accompany them.
we get it - the first and only most holy blessed sacrament of liberalism - the right to stab a live newborn child in the back of the head with a pair of forceps - is paramount.
this dogma lives loudly within the left.
But her record shows that she is not in favor of the freedom of religion separation from her legal judgments.
please provide some examples.
Big on separation of church and state but not so big on the free exercise thereof when it runs countered to their agenda. These people hide their hostility towards religion in general and Christianity in particular in the cloak of the 1st amendment.
If they had their way they would make secular atheism the state religion and ban all others. Just like communist countries do.
Why don't any of the news networks point out that it would be impossible for a foreign country to print "millions of ballots" and flood them to scammers who would fill them out and submit them. Every county in the country, and in some cases different cities, municipalities, towns and voting districts within those counties all have different ballots. There is no "master ballot" for President and Vice President. The ballots cover everything from the President down to county, municipal and school district officials. We know Trump lies, but why doesn't someone point out the fallacy of printing and distributing phony ballots? Good Grief!
I'm 100% in favor of the freedom of religion. But her record shows that she is not in favor of the freedom of religion separation from her legal judgments.
Positions on abortion
Democrats are terrified that Trump’s replacement for Ginsburg would overturn Roe v. Wade (1973), the case in which the Supreme Court reinterpreted the Constitution, effectively amending the Constitution to include a right to abortion. Roe is bad law and should be overturned, but it is extremely important that the Court do so in a wise way. States should be able to make their own laws restricting abortion.
Barrett, a Roman Catholic, has expressed the Catholic doctrine that life begins at conception. However, she made it extremely clear that judges should rule based on the law, not their own personal religious or philosophical convictions.
Barrett has only served on the 7th Circuit for three years, but has a limited record on abortion cases.
In 2018, the court considered a challenge to an Indiana law requiring the burning or cremation of fetal remains after an abortion. The court denied a rehearing of the case and Barrett joined a dissent written by Judge Frank Easterbrook. Easterbrook addressed a separate provision of the law that had been struck down but was not at issue in the rehearing. The law banned abortions based on the race, sex, or disability of the unborn baby. Easterbrook said he doubted that the Constitution bars states from enacting laws to prevent prospective parents from [u]sing abortion as a way to promote eugenic goals.”
Ultimately, the Supreme Court reversed the 7th Circuit’s opinion on the fetal remains law, upholding the state’s interest in mandating the proper disposal of aborted baby bodies. The justices did not weigh in on the non-discrimination policy, however.
Last year, Barrett joined a dissent when the 7th Circuit denied a rehearing in a case concerning another Indiana law. The court ruled that a law required young women to notify their parents before obtaining an abortion was unconstitutional. When the court refused to rehear the case, Barrett joined a dissent arguing that “[p]reventing a state statute from taking effect is a judicial act of extraordinary gravity in our federal structure.”
The Supreme Court later sent that case back to the lower courts in light of the ruling in June Medical Services v. Russo, which struck down a Louisiana law that requires abortionists to obtain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
Interestingly, Barrett’s abortion rulings have not always favored the pro-life side. Last year, she joined an opinion that upheld a Chicago ordinance barring pro-life sidewalk counselors from approaching women entering an abortion clinic. While Barrett likely sympathized with the sidewalk counselors, she upheld the law restraining them — putting the law ahead of her personal beliefs.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/09/25/5-things-to-know-about-amy-coney-barrett-n966406
“Some judges approach the Constitution saying, ‘There are some constitutional commitments that we’re not going to back down from because the Constitution enshrines them. But with respect to those that the Constitution does not speak, we’re going to leave it to democratic majorities to work out.’ Others see the Constitution as having a more amorphous and evolving content and speaking to evolving values and majority—evolving values in ways that democratic majorities don’t have the freedom to make choices,” the judge explained.
Barrett went on to cite Scalia, who “used to say that a judge who likes every result that she reaches is not a very good judge. In fact, she’s a very bad judge. The law simply does not align with a judge’s political preference or personal preference in every case.”
But her record shows that she is not in favor of the freedom of religion separation from her legal judgments.
examples please.
Nobody is saying that they want to ban religion!
Jim Sathe
still worshipping that fucking toolbox alky?
LOL.
If she is approved by the Senate, any woman who is impregnated by her father, her brother, or any other family member, or is raped, she will be forced to carry the child until she gives birth.
Even pro life women, should not accept her nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/amy-coney-barrett-extremist/
Jim Sathe is my brother!
We are still waiting for Ch to answer this request made at 8:55 am:
____________
Give us a prediction, Ch.
You are a brilliant polls analyst, as you have pointed out in the past.
What will the final electoral vote be?
Biden 353 (where it is right now with no toss ups) is surely too high, as the race will tighten in the final days, so where do you put Biden's victory amount when it eventually does come?
You are always proud of how right you say you have been in the past, so where do you predict the electoral vote numbers will finally stand?
We are still waiting...
record shows that she is not in favor of the freedom of religion separation from her legal judgments.
My record shows that I am in favor of the freedom of religion and that my Christianity never gets in the way of my constitutional requirements.
If she is approved by the Senate, any woman who is impregnated by her father, her brother,
Yes women of America....welcome to trump world of the middle ages!!!!! Congratulations to cramps and the goat fucker advocating women live as the man says she should!!!! I am sure that philosophy will echo in the US suburbs with women who vote!!!!!!!
Nobody is saying that they want to ban religion!
The freedom from religion folks do. They have actually filed suit to remove Christian cross grave markers in the military cemeteries the federal government maintains.
If they have there way, every vestige of religion will be remove from public life. We are already seeing Democrats using the COVID-19 scare to ban religious services.
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