In the wake of President Trump’s supreme court pick over the weekend, momentum among liberals is growing to expand the Supreme Court. On this episode of Into America, host Trymaine Lee talks with political scientist Aaron Belkin, whose advocacy group, Take Back the Court, has spent the past several years arguing for court expansion as a means of better reflecting the will of the American people.
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Into Expanding the Supreme Court | Into America Podcast – Ep. 76 | MSNBC
Donald Trump is killing this country
Joe biden for 2020
Joe Biden. He said the Green New Deal would ‘pay for itself,’ but he doesn’t support it? C’mon man.”
He has his own environmental policy package. What is trump’s, sell off public land and deregulate air and water quality regulations?
I would expand the Court to 11 Justices. This would rectify the Merrick Garland seat, but still give the right a 6 – 5 majority. Justice Roberts would again be the deciding vote.
30 Century Man umm no… let’s go to 13.
7-6 liberal majority.
Or more accurate representation of America; 15 Justices, 9-6 lib majority.
Why do democrats have to “reform” the court & still keep it in Republican far right clowns hands?
The stolen seat problem has me supporting this idea of expanding the court even though it will create precedent problems.
The GOP stole the 2000 election and seated John Roberts and the far-right Alito. That’s in addition to blocking Merrick Garland who was simply a moderate, not even progressive, judge.
Are values related to your political party, though? America deserves non-partisan judges. It’s not impossible.
They are supposed to be non-partisan already but this new nomination sounds like she will be totally one-sided
We could remove all the judges that Republicans have appointed since 2000, since George W. Bush and Trump are both illegitimate presidents due to cheating to “win” elections. Therefore, all the judges and other undemocratic laws they passed need to be overturned, including Citizens United.
Need lovely 😍💋 💝💖❤️
Sad that when things are not going the way the Democrats want they want to change the rules.
Well ain’t that the pot calling the kettle black
I’m sorry. What rule are you referring to?
No issues at all with expanding the court. There is no “rule” that we have 9 justices. The congress has the power given it by the constitution to add or subtract justices and even to add additional courts, districts, etc. With the broken promises of the Republican party and especially the violation the oath to uphold the constitution by McConnell, the country has been left with no choice. As far as a number, I’m not sure why 9 were picked. We have 13 stripes on the flag for the 13 original colonies, so as a matter of tradition, we should have 13 supreme court justices. This would make up for the following: 1) Merrick Garland, 2) the present pick, 3) and finally – the manipulated retirement of Justice Kennedy – you’ll hear about this more as time goes on if the truth is allowed to be spoken.
America is
23 in education.
37 in healthcare.
34 in raising family index.
No high-speed train.
Highest number of homeless people.
Highest number of incarcerated people.
78% of people live paycheck to paycheck.
Stock market is not economy of Americans! Where 90% of money belongs to top 10% of the population, it’s wallet for the rich.
Let’s talk like adults, instead of name calling.
I have left the proof on my playlist, if you would like to check!
Let’s make our country better together…….