Tot dusver is USA2021 nog niet het toneel geworden van een overladen van het Hooggerechtshof met nieuwe Democratische opperrechters. Toch is het op dat front niet stil.

Het laatste nieuws is dat de democraten zich hard maken voor het aftreden van de democratische opperrechter Breyer. Activisten zijn bang dat als deze onverwacht zou komen te overlijden in 2023 of later, dat een nieuwe meerderheid van de Republikeinen in het Congres een nieuwe situatie zou creëren als na de dood van Ruth Ginsburg vorig jaar, waarbij de Republikeinen te veel invloed krijgen op de benoeming – iets dat onvermijdelijk is als de Midterms in Republikeins voordeel eindigen.. 1 zetel in de sentaat, en iets van 4 in het Huis van Afgevaardigden is nu het verschil.

As President Biden and Nancy Pelosi slow-roll Democrats’ plans to pack the Supreme Court (even as they insisted that they don’t have a position on the issue but agree it should be “studied further“), the Democratic grass roots is trying to ensure that Democrats don’t make the same mistake twice.

Er is niks met Breyer aan de hand, maar de obsessie van de Democraten met het Supreme Court is enorm sinds president Trump in 4 jaar 3 nieuwe rechters kon voordragen èn benoemd krijgen.

The mistake we’re referring to here is, of course, the decision by former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to stay on after President Obama left office (though, to be fair, the fact that Obama couldn’t get a vote on Merrick Garland, it’s unclear whether her retirement would have ultimately stopped the seat from being filled by a Republican).
Still, a growing number on the left see RBG’s decision as a critical error and a strike against her legacy. While few Democratic lawmakers have spoken out directly in support of Breyer retiring now, progressive groups are growing increasingly vocal about suggesting him to “consider” stepping down before the next election, to ensure that President Biden and the Democrat-controlled Senate have a chance to confirm his replacement before the start of campaign season.
At 82, Breyer is the eldest justice on the court.

En dan krijg je dus dit:

The campaign to oust Breyer is being led by a group called “Demand Justice”. According to Bloomberg, DJ is “using social-media hashtags to get its point across, and also drove a truck-mounted electronic billboard around Capitol Hill last month, urging Breyer to retire.”

En ook:

In an interview with Bloomberg, “Demand Justice’s” founder Christopher Kang, a veteran of the Obama White House, said the campaign isn’t so much about forcing Breyer out as it is about galvanizing progressive attention (and, of course, donations) for the cause of pushing the Supreme Court back toward the progressive end of the spectrum and undoing President Trump’s most enduring legacy.

“I don’t suspect that Justice Breyer is going to look out the window of the Supreme Court and see one of our trucks driving by and say, ‘They’re right! I should retire now!'”

Instead, Kang said he and co-founder Brian Fallon, press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, want the group to focus liberal voters on the “importance of every single vacancy, and the need to start building a more enduring bloc on the court.”

En er zit ook een element van angst in:

But we suspect he’s being facetious. In reality, Demand Justice sees itself as a kind of ersatz Federalist Society: Liberals have long envied the political machine that the GOP built up around building a conservative majority on the nation’s highest courts. This infrastructure was leveraged to great effect during Trump’s presidency, as he filled hundreds of federal court vacancies. Democratic justices, by comparison, have marched to the beat of their own drum, instead of doing the right thing for Dems’ overall political strategy.

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