Packing the courts is better for the Dems, even if the Republicans pack back

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1319694674752319488


This is partisan court packing in action. Anyone repeating the Republicans hand-wringing about possible future Democratic court-packing is carrying water for the GOP.

[R.P. McM]

The last thing the plutocrats want is a SC accountable to public opinion.

I'm not sure if anyone should really want that.

I think a 7-6 Democratic majority would respect minority rights to a far greater extent than a 6-3 Republican majority. It's certainly not out of the question that the latter would attempt to reimpose the social mores of white evangelicals, to disastrous consequences for non-Christians, non-heterosexuals, and nonwhites.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The last thing the plutocrats want is a SC accountable to public opinion.

I'm not sure if anyone should really want that.

I think a 7-6 Democratic majority would respect minority rights to a far greater extent than a 6-3 Republican majority. It's certainly not out of the question that the latter would attempt to reimpose the social mores of white evangelicals, to disastrous consequences for non-Christians, non-heterosexuals, and nonwhites.

That might be so - though rulings along 'partisan' lines are a lot less common than widely assumed - but has little to do with 'a SC accountable to public opinion'. I repeat: I do not think that anyone should really want that.