dilloduck
Diamond Member
mom4 said:That seems more akin to what the dems are doing in refusing to "consent" to the appointment of the president's nominees, the effect being to stack the courts in favor of a political stance. I think the public was correct in fdr's case.
I came up with this in the US COnstitution, Article 1, section 8, clause 9, which gives Congress the power to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court, and Article 3, section 1, which says that Congress can ordain and establish inferior courts. I was referring to the court structure, not individual judges. This, Congress (not the president) has the power to rearrange (not necessarily to abolish, although if they could find a right to consentual sodomy in the Constitution, I don't think it's as far a stretch to turn "establish and ordain" into "abolish.")
this would require partisan cooperation----fat chance.