Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
I will prefer the one that doesn't have me get dragged out of my house and shot or sent into a camp but we get what shit gets sent our way.'May You Live In Interesting TImes'
I will prefer the one that doesn't have me get dragged out of my house and shot or sent into a camp but we get what shit gets sent our way.'May You Live In Interesting TImes'
House and Senate Democrats Plan Bill to Add Four Justices to Supreme Court
The Constitution allows Congress to set the number of Supreme Court justices.theintercept.com
Oh good. This is going to end well.
You know, honestly more concerning to me than this (and it's been a personal bugaboo issue for...as long as it's been proposed with any trace of seriousness on the American political scene)?House and Senate Democrats Plan Bill to Add Four Justices to Supreme Court
The Constitution allows Congress to set the number of Supreme Court justices.theintercept.com
Oh good. This is going to end well.
The fact that at lesser number it could be proposed much more viably in political context and jive with the efforts to bring DC and Puerto Rico statehood. Because then there exists the fig-leaf justification that SCOTUS expansions in the past have occurred because of expanding number of states and the work demanded of each Justice to oversee their carveouts...It's a thin pretext, but it IS a pretext, and masks the partisan power-move behind something that at least allows it to be presented as something that isn't a purely partisan power-move.
Adding four makes that fig-leaf impossible and just emphasizes 'partisan power-move'.
House and Senate Democrats Plan Bill to Add Four Justices to Supreme Court
The Constitution allows Congress to set the number of Supreme Court justices.theintercept.com
Oh good. This is going to end well.
I think you might have to accelerate your timetable, because it's starting to look like they're trying to speedrun the fall of the Roman Republic.I thought we would have to wait until after the next populist leader until our neo optimates did something this fundamentally stupid.
I think you might have to accelerate your timetable, because it's starting to look like they're trying to speedrun the fall of the Roman Republic.
Except there's also been talk of somehow nuking that so they only need a simple majority.Doubt this will actually go through tbh, I assume it can get stopped by filibuster
Except there's also been talk of somehow nuking that so they only need a simple majority.
If democrats pack the courts they will start passing laws that ensure republicans never get power again.I think that's very possible it will of course lead to a massive populist uprising because that is a direct violation of so many norms and it will also mean that the republicans will pack the court the minute they get power as retribution. This is the kind of shit that makes civil wars envitable.
Justice Roberts may just go down as the man who ended the republic.
Welcome to upside-down world.
You've got to give them a few days for the spin machine to come up with the official explanation for this. Then it'll all be justified and they can look the other way.This is the Democrats' voter base; people so gullible that they'll take a politician at their word.
You've got to give them a few days for the spin machine to come up with the official explanation for this. Then it'll all be justified and they can look the other way.
Just like how blatantly stealing an election would?I think that's very possible it will of course lead to a massive populist uprising because that is a direct violation of so many norms and it will also mean that the republicans will pack the court the minute they get power as retribution. This is the kind of shit that makes civil wars envitable.
Justice Roberts may just go down as the man who ended the republic.
Just like how blatantly stealing an election would?