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Power. it would expand and contract and expand again, creating chronic instabilit y and legal chaos. the high courts legitimac cyicu would erode, public trust would diminish, you know, in the case decisionsts themselves would gyrate back and forth. courtty to court migh reinstitute affirmative action reve wheny chan it the composition of the court suddenly changes. >> whenevege wheneverr the pendulum of politics swings the other way. as always does so.e bide joe biden was right decades ago as a ...

The commission is opened to term limits writing this: it does not believe term limits will be partisan. some democrats believe the number of conservative judges disrnt represent the u.s. population. republicans and legal experts are warning that packing the court would end the supreme courts legitimacy. >> its a boneheaded idea. but a number of law professors say we have to pack the court because its not reading the

Packing the court was a boneheaded idea. that hasnt changed. we had a failure of leadership. president biden refused during the campaign to tell voters how he felt about packing the court. even though voters are overwhelmingly against packing the court. he kicked the can down the road and created this commission. we will see what comes out of this. the real problem here is this vacuum of leadership created by president biden. he should make it clear that those people who want to add 4 liberal vo...

Ekg >> so is this it unleashing unconstitutional chaos? >> no. what is chaos is when you dont get the result you want and people call for you to just change the court to add a majority of liberal justices to dictate the results. thats chaos. chaos is when a president wont state his view on court packing even though he previous said it was a boneheaded idea. this is called process. you might not agree but the majority on the court felt there were serious questions about the constitutionality of t...

A mistake. it was just a boneheaded idea, and i should admit it was a mistake and walk away from it. and i presume a lot of folks presume if i did that, that would be good for me politically. but theres only one problem with that. it wouldnt be honest. i in fact did what i believed was right for the people of my state. romney went on to discuss his idea for repealing and replacing the obama health care reform law, apparently not having noticed that washington republicans have shifted positions...

Room as well. a live look near vix burg, mississippi. about 600 homes are underwater across the mississippi delta. the river is expected to crest late next week, well keep an eye on those developments. in the meantime, protests in cairo where thousands are packing tahrir square? support of palestinians. tomorrow marks 63 years since the founding of the state of israel. that relationship between egypt and israel one were also watching closely. lawyers in the casey anthony trial working to nar...

Reform that president obama modeled on romneys plan and signed into law. at minimum, romney seems to be hoping to score political points simply by being brave enough to talk about the issue at all. >> i should note, by the way, that that was a time when my massachusetts health care plan was considered at least by me to be an asset politically. i hear some laughter in the room. thats not the case now. but you will note that despite the fact its gone from being seen as an asset to a liability, pol...

Saying that i should just stand up and say, this whole thing was a mistake. it was just a boneheaded idea, and i should admit it was a mistake and walk away from it. and i presume a lot of folks presume if i did that, that would be good for me politically. but theres only one problem with that. it wouldnt be honest. i in fact did what i believed was right for the people of my state. romney went on to discuss his idea for repealing and replacing the obama health care reform law, apparently not ...

In the race for 2012 has been making headlines today. ron paul made it official, but halfway through may the major players, many think the best chance of winning the nomination havent put both feet in the electoral waters. richard goodstein is the democratic strategist and robert is the bureau chief for the comcast network and former senior communications adviser for the 2004 bush campaign. good morning and start right out of the gate with mitt romney in michigan. and i want you to take a listen...