Yep, that's my point, While we don't want to lose the Court, it would make a bigger difference to our every day lives to have the lower courts packed, and it would be far less controversial. I'm telling you, that's the move here.
It would, but they don’t need to do this to pull that off. There are already shitloads of open seats they just need to ram through. They have the votes already.
The play is either they are suicidal, or they want us to get on board the Mitch/mitt rino train because “look how mean the baddie bad democrats are. You better vote for us, campaign for us, and give us money or look what they might do.”
Federal courts are important but most cases are brought in state courts. Which this doesn’t tinker with. SCOTUS is by far the most important because they will decide the most important cases. They set the tone, they make the law the lower courts must comply with.
True most cases go through state courts, but the stuff they are going to want to get done will be Federal Question stuff, specifically with this "Infrastructure Bill." Congress has very broad power under the Commerce Clause, which is what I imagine they'll use as justification for this insanity. But it will be challenged piecewise, and it will end up in Federal Court. Some of that will go SCOTUS, but they take few cases and they 9-0 the majority of them anyway.
It's very true that SCOTUS sets the most important bounds with precedential case law, but the District Courts and Circuit Courts are where the day to day action is. Don't be shocked if they completely bloat these in the next year.
Yep, that's my point, While we don't want to lose the Court, it would make a bigger difference to our every day lives to have the lower courts packed, and it would be far less controversial. I'm telling you, that's the move here.
It would, but they don’t need to do this to pull that off. There are already shitloads of open seats they just need to ram through. They have the votes already.
The play is either they are suicidal, or they want us to get on board the Mitch/mitt rino train because “look how mean the baddie bad democrats are. You better vote for us, campaign for us, and give us money or look what they might do.”
Federal courts are important but most cases are brought in state courts. Which this doesn’t tinker with. SCOTUS is by far the most important because they will decide the most important cases. They set the tone, they make the law the lower courts must comply with.
True most cases go through state courts, but the stuff they are going to want to get done will be Federal Question stuff, specifically with this "Infrastructure Bill." Congress has very broad power under the Commerce Clause, which is what I imagine they'll use as justification for this insanity. But it will be challenged piecewise, and it will end up in Federal Court. Some of that will go SCOTUS, but they take few cases and they 9-0 the majority of them anyway.
It's very true that SCOTUS sets the most important bounds with precedential case law, but the District Courts and Circuit Courts are where the day to day action is. Don't be shocked if they completely bloat these in the next year.