The president said im going to veto the legislative appropriations bill and we will let the Voters Decide in november whether we want to pay these legislators, you are effectively stopping an institution from working. If the senate said the justices are coming to us, they want security for the institution, and we are going to decline to in an appropriations bill because we are matt at them, you them, you are preaching a duty thats implicit in the document. To make the other branches function as intended. Finally, theres a certain irony here, any members of a certain part are very upset with president obama for taking executive action on some subjects and not changing the statutory law. There is a statute on the books that says there shall be nine members of the Supreme Court. If you want to change it to eight, passed a law, ok . Pass a law. Thats not what i think anyone wants to do the everyone recognizes there is a duty. The question is i think everyone agrees want of timing and one o