My limited experience tends to agree. At least Catholics are not fundamentalists who believe in literal interpretation of scripture. I am contrasting them however with evangelicals, rather than mainstream Protestants. Or maybe evangelicals are the mainstream now?
Timex
5820
According to this, evangelicals make up the plurality of Americans, and thus the majority of protestants.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism_in_the_United_States#:~:text=A%202014%20Pew%20Research%20Center,mainline%20Protestants%20were%2014.7%20percent.
A 2014 Pew Research Center survey of religious life in the United States identified the evangelical percentage of the population at 25.4 percent while Roman Catholics were 20.8 percent and mainline Protestants were 14.7 percent.[68]
I had forgotten all about this.
Alstein
5823
You do have to separate between white evangelicals and black evangelials.
(thereās also Asian evangelicals, who can be even more radical than the white ones for the most part- mostly Korean/Taiwanese)
Bingo, bango, bongo. I finally saw that Biden answered a court packing question by noting how the Republicans are already engaged in court packing right now, so at least thatās some progress in the rhetoric. The fate of lifetime court appointments should not rest in the hands of a senator who represents a state of fewer than 5 million people. The system is broken.
Iām not entirely sure what this means. Does it mean theyāll boycott the meeting entirely? Or withhold enough Dems to deny a quorum?
RichVR
5826
I did not even know that this was an option. And if it is, why hasnāt it been discussed earlier?
Is approval of the Judiciary committee required? I didnāt think it was. I thought the Turtle can bring Barrett to a vote on the floor independent of any Judiciary Ctte report or rec.
RayRayK
5828
Judiciary provides a recommendation, or doesnāt. Full Senate confirms.
Ephraim
5829
He can. But from what Iāve been reading, itās going to be tough for them to field the necessary quorum in the Senate without bringing in the sick members and others whoād rather be out campaigning. This is going to be interesting.
I think the only way this would work is to first expand the court to 15. Then put forth a constitutional amendment that provides for some sort of rotation between the Supreme Court and the Appellate court, for future nominees. You do this after granting statehood to DC and Puerto Rico. Perhaps throwing the Republicanās a lifeline after youāve already made it really hard for them to regain control, might encourage them to take a 1/2 a loaf.
Pretty much this offer them a chance of fairness in the form of a Constitutional amendment, but only after youāve evened the scored. I say go for 6 seats and increase the number of seats in the Appellate courts.
Also we really need more immigration judges in this country. Include giant posters of Joe Biden in immigration court along with multi lingual explanation of how President Biden speed up the immigration process, provided healthcare and assistant to asylum seekers, and basically unfucked the US immigration system.
Can Rich Lowry just DIAF already? Jesus.
If we reduced the size of the court, who decides which justices stay on and which ones go?
ShivaX
5835
This guy:
Or the justices themselves if they like retire or something, I guess, but mostly the above dude.
Alstein
5836
The fact itās been changed so many times- that needs to be brought up when you do courtstacking, with the premise of it being the constitutional remedy to a court that is interpreting the constitution in a way that is extremely ideologically unacceptable to the majoirty in America (and make sure to call yourselves the majority)
When Ted Cruz is (virtually) the smartest person in the room
Fuck Mike Lee. Heās as guilty as DJT on this shit. Why do people vote for shitstains like him?
