The Left creatively explores ways to game any situation, then aggressively pushes to implement its plan and then pushes beyond where anyone thought it was going to go.
Bullying Justice Breyer off the bench and replacing him with a pro-pedophile and anti-constitution racist was Phase 1.
Here’s Phase 2.
Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring – Vox
Breyer initially insisted that he wasn’t going to retire and then he did. Sotomayor in particular may prove somewhat harder to bully, but I wouldn’t bet against an aggressive combined stick-and-carrot campaign.
There’s no particular urgency here as the Vox agenda piece notes. Neither Sotomayor nor Kagan are particularly old. Even assuming that a Republican wins in 2024, their seats are in no particular danger.
Even assuming a Republican wins and serves two terms, Sotomayor would be 78 and Kagan 72. The average life expectancy for justices is in the 80s. RBG, the great cautionary tale used to purge Breyer and now Sotomayor and Kagan, was 87.
None of that is the point.
There are a few pluses here for leftists.
1 Churning justices means that the new appointees would not only be younger and thus likely to last longer, but they’d be more leftist. Older leftist justices like RBG and Breyer were fine in their time but proved insufficiently woke. While the older conservatives on the court have been far more reliably conservative than Roberts or the newcomers under Trump, newer leftists are more politically reliable.
Much as term limits have tilted the city governments of places like New York City much farther to the Left so too, demographic court packing would make the leftist justices much more up-to-date. That is, they’d know women don’t exist and racism can only be practiced by white people.
2 Game theory has the Left behind on the Supreme Court. Packing the Court directly has proven to be challenging, but start churning justices and suddenly conservatives will have to react. There will be pressure on Thomas and Alito to retire and make way for younger justices. The grander constitutional project will fall apart and even a conservative majority will consist of little more than atomized judges with different philosophies who have trouble agreeing on most things.
3 With justices constantly being rotated, the Supreme Court will lose its heft. From the conservative perspective that may seem like a good thing, but lefties have a knack for taking over institutions, robbing them of meaning, but boosting their authority.
Getting a new set of justices past a Senate on a regular basis would be challenging. But if the Democrats can sweep in with a new administration and congress, and then swap out justices before the midterm payback kicks in, this could be a whole new game.
Mind-blowing, that those two aren’t far enough left.
The problem with leftists is there are no boundaries to the left, and there are no stable foundational values for the left, except to do anything and everything to seize power and hold it. So every step taken by leftists is merely a stepping stone to impose more leftist tyranny until there is no free world.
Their boundaries move. Motivated by hate and envy, they calculate the tactic du jour to destroy us and free themselves from all restraint or disapproval of their cupidity. They hate whatever will not affirm their wickedness. Simple.
Why not just appoint Federal Justices/Judges (all Judicial Officers) to terms of office? This is only a rhetorical question. I am not affirmatively advocating this, but I would be willing to consider it. I myself cannot say what an appropriate length for such a term of office should be. Twelve years? Shorter? Longer? Would reappointment after the conclusion of a term be allowed? Would reinvestigation and reconfirmation be required of such a re-appointee? I would like to point out that nothing is ideal–every approach seems to have its own problems–we do not live in an ideal world.
The lifetime appointment has value in our system. The problem is deeper than the life term. We have abandoned the Christian morality pervasive and almost assumed at our founding. We need a return to that morality and men in power who are governed by it.
Eliminating the life term will only move the Overton Window more quickly in our current zeitgeist.
The left doesn’t care for the constitution, the nation, or the laws to begin with.
In fact their main focus is to destroy them all.
They can say it all they want but reality is it will take a constitutional amendment to do. Good luck with that, they can not even get an amendment passed to give women the right to vote.
Even in one party states, personnel are purged and replaced by every new ruler. Thinking and loyalty have to be updated. The replacements get positions as payment for services. The act of removing previous position holders serves as an example and a threat.
They’ll certainly want to have Clarance Thomas removed he isn’t part of the NWO and the CFR and the International Criminal Court(ICC)that American Traitor/Draft Dodger/Rapists Bill Clinton singed America into in his last day in office his act of Treason against America and the American People