Showing posts with label Florida’s GOP House Speaker Pushing Court-Packing Plan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida’s GOP House Speaker Pushing Court-Packing Plan. Show all posts

Monday, April 18, 2011

Florida’s GOP House Speaker Pushing Court-Packing Plan To Neutralize Democratic Justices

The Florida Supreme Court is not a rubber stamp for the Republican Party — indeed, they recently tossed out a wildly unconstitutional ballot initiative attempting to nullify part of the Affordable Care Act. This fact greatly upsets Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon (R), who would much rather have the court unquestioningly do his Party’s bidding than have them actually follow the law. So Cannon is now pushing a court packing plan that willeffectively neutralize the court’s Democratic members: