Won't help. Disaster Don is all about punishing his perceived enemies, even if it means manufacturing whole slews of imaginary crimes that never existed. So even if they are as pure as the driven snow, the New Gestapo will try to take them down anyway.
it would help A LOT.
Nope. Trumpy's DoJ will be given all the power they need under presidential imprimatur to do whatever Trumpy tells them to do, bugger what Biden may or may not do now. All Trumpy would need to do is make an order that all Biden's pardons are null, void and rescinded. Not to mention Obama's. And the SCOTUS has already ruled Trumpy's powers are unassailably valid and legal, whatever he does.
See above. They would all be put back to behind square one.
Did I say anything even remotely like that? Or even about the Democrats or Biden at all? Let me check... Nope, I didn't. Not a word about the Democrats or Biden at all. So if you want to invent imaginary scenarios for other people to act out, just leave us out of it, please.
Hard to do that when it's a lifetime appointment, nobody looks like dying just yet, and it's even less likely that any of them will resign.
Understood.
He should write an order to make the judges retain their positions only by passing strict Army physicals every quarter, including the timed cross-country runs and obstacle courses. Can't be a SCOTUS jurist if you are a piss-weak pussy!
It's a frequently-cited thing in American politics: the exact number of Supreme Court justices isn't defined in the Constitution. Theoretically, a president could just keep adding more and more. And yet they don't.
There were 13 at one point. Now there are fewer. How did that happen? Natural attrition? Or can a president reduce the number of justices? Does appointing power include the power to appoint fewer justices? Selectively?
If I'm recalling high school civics class correctly, what happened was Sauron took back some of the justices and the others were consumed by dragons.
I believe that article 3 of the US constitution has been interpreted to give Congress the power to determine the size of the Supreme Court.
I saw an interview with him where he said no matter what you think of Trump, rest assured, he's worse.
My thoughts exactly. I read an opinion piece that Trump will not be able to tame the bureaucracy for this very reason. On top of that, Trump is appointing sycophants who do not have the skills to manage let alone influence change on large bureaucratic institutions.Understood.
But a better way would be to simply mire and strangle those henchmen in the DoJ. Whatever purges they order, whatever the programs of oppression, wrap them in red tape, smother them in inquiries, divert their funding from suppression programs to suddenly much more urgent purposes, reassign staff away leaving only one or two to do the work of dozens, delay things with unseen legal problems and trip-hazards, etc. Any public servants worth their salary knows how to efficiently stop stuff happening rather than make stuff happen, while pretending to be studiously at work. To bollox up and quicksand the system and make it grind to a halt. That would leave the the one or two Trumpy gruppenfuhrers all on their own to implement their pogroms but with no money, people or resources. That would be sad.
Ok. But who appoints?
That kind of misuse of the pardon power is something we would expect from Trump, not Biden.
