This citizens united crap comming up today reminded me just how whacked our supreme court is. I seem to recall back when I was taking history in college that FDR was having issues with a right wing supreme court and he got them to back down by threatening to increase the number of cheif justices.
More down there.....
Mabey I don't know what I'm talking about or mabey my teacher didn't. It was so long ago I don't even recall which teacher it was. And we probably all have more pressing issues to be worried about. But we are stuck with this court for decades and we need to do something beyond waiting for someone to die.
I wouldn't normally post a short speculative diary like this, but saturdays are slow news days. Beats yet another far too easy Christine O'Donnel laugh fest.
Update, I was right. Via wiki:
The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, frequently called the court-packing plan,[1] was a legislative initiative to add more justices to the Supreme Court proposed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt shortly after his victory in the 1936 presidential election. Although the bill aimed generally to overhaul and modernize all of the federal court system, its central and most controversial provision would have granted the President power to appoint an additional Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court for every sitting member over the age of 70½, up to a maximum of six.