skippy1729
lisab said:A president is well within his Constitutional rights to appoint whom he wishes to judicial posts; his appointees still have to get through congress.
That's quite different from a Presidential hopeful who wants to send the Marshals to drag judges to impeachment proceedings, because the he thinks the judge's rulings were "un-American". Quite, quite different.
Granted, Newt has a "big mouth". Political rhetoric aside, he knows that the president cannot impeach or subpoena anyone. It is the prerogative of congress.
FDR's threat was to have congress increase the supreme court to 11 or more members and then appoint new justices who would vote favourable to the "new deal" programs. The court got the message and nothing came of the plan.