A handful of Democrat senators – those who sit in judgment on nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court – are threatening the existing justices in the hope they will make decisions more to their liking – or face the possibility that the court will be “restructured.”
That, of course, is in direct conflict with the setup of the Supreme Court, in which five of the nine votes rule. In fact, progressives have used that fact to their advantage in cases like Obergefell, in which the progressive faction created in a decision “unrelated to the Constitution” the fact of same-sex “marriage” in the nation.
There has been considerable argument among Democrats running for the party’s nomination for president in 2020 that they’d like to “stack” the court, that is, add additional justices that they would pick to dilute the five-member majority that now rules....