{"id":1300851,"date":"2018-12-04T22:28:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T05:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/vail-law-stacking-federal-courts-is-often-discussed-but-not-often-done-column\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T22:28:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T05:28:01","slug":"vail-law-stacking-federal-courts-is-often-discussed-but-not-often-done-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/vail-law-stacking-federal-courts-is-often-discussed-but-not-often-done-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Vail Law: \u2018Stacking\u2019 federal courts is often-discussed, but not often done (column)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/vail-law-stacking-federal-courts-is-often-discussed-but-not-often-done-column\/\">Rohn Robbins<\/a><\/span>  There is something in the air.<br \/>\nInsurrection, maybe? Or perhaps just the &#8220;encampment&#8221; of our fractured era.<br \/>\nSeveral times recently, someone has asked me, &#8220;What if the Dems who now control the House wanted to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court?&#8221; Or words to that effect.<br \/>\nBesides a &#8220;Huh?&#8221; there is a fatal flaw to the logic. Or perhaps two. First, if there were a &#8220;vacancy&#8221; on the Supreme Court, the president would fill it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/vail-law-stacking-federal-courts-is-often-discussed-but-not-often-done-column\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/vail-law-stacking-federal-courts-is-often-discussed-but-not-often-done-column\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Vail Law: \u2018Stacking\u2019 federal courts is often-discussed, but not often done (column)\">Vail Daily Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something in the air.<br \/>\nInsurrection, maybe? Or perhaps just the &#8220;encampment&#8221; of our fractured era.<br \/>\nSeveral times recently, someone has asked me, &#8220;What if the Dems who now control the House wanted to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court?&#8221; Or words to that effect.<br \/>\nBesides a &#8220;Huh?&#8221; there is a fatal flaw to the logic. Or perhaps two. First, if there were a &#8220;vacancy&#8221; on the Supreme Court, the president would fill it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/vail-law-stacking-federal-courts-is-often-discussed-but-not-often-done-column\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1300851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 13:11:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}