2020 Democratic presidential primary

"It calls for expanding the number of justices from nine to 15, with five affiliated with Democrats, five affiliated with Republicans, and five apolitical justices chosen by the first 10." https://t.co/G0xSW1D2cC

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) June 3, 2019

fun fact, pete: everything is political

you fucking doofus

lol wasn't this a West Wing episode or something?

if it wasn't aaron sorkin must be kicking himself rn

idk--if it was really possible to pack the courts I would expect that McConnel and Trump would have already raised the number of justices to the membership count of the Federalist Society

You’re not my mayor, Pete. That’s fucking dumb.

Overton and all that. Love the Overton, always the Overton. Yay Overton.

when does this thing wrap up

Under the plan, most justices would continue serving life terms. Five would be affiliated with the Republican Party and five with the Democratic Party. Those 10 would then join together to choose five additional justices from U.S. appeals courts, or possibly the district-level trial courts. They’d have to settle on the nonpolitical justices unanimously — or at least with a “strong supermajority.”

They final five would serve one-year, nonrenewable terms. They’d be chosen two years in advance, to prevent nominations based on anticipated court cases, and if the 10 partisan justices couldn’t agree on the final five, the Supreme Court would be deemed to lack a quorum and couldn’t hear cases that term.

oh okay so this is a way to ensure the supreme court never, ever gets to hear a case ever again, mayor pete is actually lowkey down to subvert the entire system and i'm 100% behind it

so lower court rulings would stand which have been packed with federalist society dickholes, cool

oh okay so mayor pete is actually lowkey down to uphold the entire system and i'm 100% not behind it

mayor pete aint shiiiiiiiiiiit i hereby judge all buttigieg fans as faker than a 4 fuckin dollar bill

I think we should have three presidents--one republican, one democrat, and one imaginary

Pete is gay, so no amount of stupidity is gonna dry up the money

(unless he sez Madonna is a no-talent granny or sumthin)

so mayor pete is at the policy braintrust level of a random dude writing a three paragraph "now hear me out, i have this idea" stranger commenting on a friend's facebook post, cool

haha for a guy who has been holding back on policy details this is a hilariously specific bad one

Oh you want details? I'll show you details: Capital punishment, yes, but only in states beginning with vowels

...from Sunday to Tuesday, and alternate Wednesdays. The rest of the time, it's states beginning with consonants. I believe this is doable, and as something which is halfway to a total solution, this will, in time, allow us to assess whether the people want us to continue down this path.

Only a white gay man from South Bend can view "apolitical" as a kiss.

me thinking about how much more “mike gravel” will be tweeting when summer vacation starts pic.twitter.com/9yP8rnNeZN

— andy s (@CIAGoFundMe) May 29, 2019

Pete is gay, so no amount of stupidity is gonna dry up the money

what keeps the real money flowing isn't that he's gay but that 1) he isn't bernie and 2) a ouija board told the center for american progress millennials would love him lmao

an ouija board made of arugula

is pete a CAP favorite?

i was using them as metonymy i guess but was thinking of when the nyt dropped his name in passing:

The matter of What To Do About Bernie and the larger imperative of party unity has, for example, hovered over a series of previously undisclosed Democratic dinners in New York and Washington organized by the longtime party financier Bernard Schwartz. The gatherings have included scores from the moderate or center-left wing of the party, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California; Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader; former Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia; Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., himself a presidential candidate; and the president of the Center for American Progress, Neera Tanden.

all those people are big plugged-in deals anyone might expect to be at such a series of dinners-- except one of them, the one who's a presidential candidate

these people aren't just chickenshits, they're also bad at their jobs. if anything, they should be getting behind Kamala.

"Son of a bitch, there he goes again with his hand on the chicken switch!"

Beto: I paid my bill!

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tale-invoices-beto-orourke-pays-el-paso-donald/story?id=63350337

The bills came due for both: Beto For America owed the city $28,630.50 for his March campaign launch; he had already paid $7,609.14 of that as a deposit. The remainder was due May 24. They paid on time -- just under the wire -- with a check dated the day prior to the deadline.

El Paso also billed Donald J. Trump for President Inc. for his "Make America Great Again" rally -- for nearly half a million dollars. The invoice was sent to the campaign's Fifth Avenue offices in New York on March 27. It was due April 26, and El Paso has yet to see a dime.

I started the New Yorker profile yesterday afternoon, but I jumped into the pool. Forgive me it was so delicious, so sweet, so cold.

so mayor pete is at the policy braintrust level of a random dude

i can’t find it right now, but i’m reminded of matt’s observation regarding the west wing that even in liberals’ greatest fantasy they’ve compromised instead of won pic.twitter.com/xhEMUJ0h39

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) June 3, 2019

I remember now-- Bartlett decides to nominate two justices--a liberal AND a conservative, because he sees the two of them arguing respectfully

The Booty Judge has also made a point of stating he would not have "forced Al Franken to resign".

Fuuuuuck this dude.

he's just losing all the points he won by having read a book

Wouldn’t buttigieg’s plan enshrine the two party systwm (and thus the republican party) permanently in the constitution?

basically, this dude is a fuckin charlatan

Maybe it wouldn’t require a constitutional amendment—i forget where the 9 justice thing comes from

It would still legitimize this artificial polarity we have now

Or entrench

There’s no way it is coming anywhere close to happening, anyway.

Which, uh, is not a good sign for a policy proposal. If you’re proposing something that isn’t happening anyway, at least make it aspirational and a vision of the future you want, rather than an idiotic preemptive compromise!

Karl

that IS the aspirational vision of the future

My thing is why don't you kick out the 10 hyperpartisan judges and just go with the 5 androids

Obama waited til he was prez b4 announcing his preemptive compromises

Because the hyperpartisan judges are needed to choose the nonpartisan judges. Every year. It’s gonna be a well-oiled machine

"let's have the worst parts of hyperpartisan stasis and institutional churn, that would be a perfect system"

managed democracy iirc

nothing changes but there's always something to retweet

he should restate this plan but in Norweigian, that'll sell it

"Jeg kom opp med ideen mens jeg så på The West Wing"

lol

Wouldn’t buttigieg’s plan enshrine the two party systwm (and thus the republican party) permanently in the constitution?

If only he had been around in the 19th century, the Whigs would still be guaranteed the Supreme Court Justices they deserve.