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Saturday, November 1, 2008
The Supreme Court
If you are a part of the few who have been lucky enough to participate in some US AP lovin' this year, you will know that we have been focusing on the Supreme Court lately. An ideal Supreme Court for McCain varies greatly to that of Obama's. It is predicted that McCain would stay with a Bush-like court in his choices for appointees. It would continue on a right wing shift and consist of conservative Justices. Obama is aware of the shift the court's have taken and it is believed that he would appoint a more liberal array of Justices. However, here is a little-known fun fact: Obama himself is educationally capable of being appointed to the Supreme Court. "He is a constitutional specialist who has taught for many years," said Sunstein (Obama friend and former faculty colleague at University of Chicago Law School) "There's a guarantee that we'd get someone of the first intellectual rank." It is also estimated that McCain will increase the total proportion of Republican appointees for the US Courts of Appeal from 56% to 74% and decrease the Democrats from 36% to 26%. Obama would make the proportions 42% and 58% respectively. Now that sounds more reasonable...
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The original size of the court was set at 6, and it fluctuated back and forth. In 1837 it was set at 9, then jumped to 10, and finally, by 1863 it was set once again at 9 where it rests today. The expansion of the court corresponds with the expansion of the country and its "circuit courts."
F. Roosevelt attempted to "pack" the court , adding one justice for every sitting justice who reached the age of 70 and REFUSED to retire; the number was not to exceed 15. As a "plan" it failed, but it did help him accomplish his new Deal programs.
I have heard that if McCain wins, there is a possibility that a Tandem student's father may be a SC appointee.......wow!
no way, wow!
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