Am I crazy : remove the only barrier to an-all Republican Supreme Court ?Yes I am crazy : as a fox.
They’re all resigning at once because president-elect Biden is about to appoint them to a blue-ribbon panel made up from a wide variety of retired judges, distinguished and not partisan, from both parties & no parties - a panel set up to determine how to appoint Supreme Court justices on a nonpartisan basis, as is now done in most common law based legal systems.
True, Moscow Mitch would have a golden opportunity to fill the Supreme Court with 100% conservative Republicans.
In theory - but I’d doubt he’d do it.
The fact is the Republicans have always needed a thin veneer of Democrat appointees to beard their packed courts’ biased decisions.
With that removed - with only Republicans on the Supreme Court, all of its decisions from here on would lack political and legal legitimacy and each controversial one would tend to create a firestorm of a constitutional crisis.
When Biden forwards the new candidates to fill those holes in early 2021, he would be doing so based on the unanimous vote of the supreme body of the US Bar Association that the candidates, ones that the Association itself alone picked, are well qualified and with a lifetime of non-partisan service.
The Republican-controlled Senate could still reject them,yes, but somehow I doubt they would for very long...
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