Moving the Goalposts

Dumocrats don’t like to lose, and they come up with the most outlandish means to give themselves an advantage their opponents cannot overcome if they can’t win under current rules. Which is why former AG Holder is pushing the idea that Supreme Court Justices should be limited to 18 year terms. So they could appoint more liberals to the Court and guarantee a liberal majority so they could continue to win in the courts what they can’t win in elections and legislation. His earlier idea was to “pack the court” by creating more Justice positions on the Court. FDR (a Dumocrat) tried that, and failed. So did Lincoln—and he also failed. When they can’t win under current rules, they want to change the rules to give themselves an advantage. That’s the way they work. They don’t always succeed, but they always try. Supreme Court Justices have a lifetime appointment—so they cannot be swayed by politics, nor intimidated by such threats as Senate Minority Leader Chucky Schumer recently, that two of them “would not know what hit them” after they supported a decision with which he did not agree. It is that lifetime tenure that prevents them from worrying about such threats. (The Dirt Sheet)