{"id":20974,"date":"2020-09-21T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20974"},"modified":"2020-09-21T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:31:13","slug":"pack-the-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20974","title":{"rendered":"Pack the courts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;the shortsighted asshole who runs the repub party, Mitch McConnell, is going to jam through another SC justice before the election to replace RBG&#8230;never mind that the hypocrite in chief running the senate had a &#8220;rule&#8221; that said that you can&#8217;t approve a new justice in the last year of a president&#8217;s term&#8230;but we all know that only applies to dem presidents&#8230;.so I say let him&#8230;and then we need to get out to vote to ensure that we take back the WH and senate&#8230;then play some damn hardball for a change&#8230;and that would mean expanding the SC to 15 justices and appointing liberal justices to all 6 of the new seats&#8230;after all, moscow mitch has been tearing the rules of the senate up to jam through unqualified judges for the past 4 years and we need to grow a spine in response. The number of SC justices is set by law, not by the constitution and all we would have to do is pass a new law saying that there are now 15&#8230;but, let&#8217;s not stop there&#8230;if the repubs want to break every convention to get their right wing asshole judges installed to go against the will of the people&#8230;especially on Roe v. Wade where 70% of the American people want it left alone&#8230;then we need to respond in kind and expand every damn court and blunt the damage that the repubs have done. Then, we need a real investigation of Brett Kavanaugh and impeach the lying sexual assaulter and get him off the court&#8230;.we need to let the repubs know that if they jam through this RBG replacement, there will be hell to pay&#8230;.but we need the entire government in our hands to make them pay&#8230;so, get out and vote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;the shortsighted asshole who runs the repub party, Mitch McConnell, is going to jam through another SC justice before the election to replace RBG&#8230;never mind that the hypocrite in chief running the senate had a &#8220;rule&#8221; that said that you can&#8217;t approve a new justice in the last year of a president&#8217;s term&#8230;but we all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20974\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pack the courts&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2705,199,2704],"class_list":["post-20974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-expand-the-courts","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-rbg-seat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20976,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20974\/revisions\/20976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}