OSR, why would you revoke your support for Biden over something like court-packing, but not revoke your support for Trump over the myriad unconstitutional, anti-democratic and anti-institutional actions he's taken? Is adding 2 justices to the Supreme Court really further out there than any of the horrible things Trump has done?
For instance, is it worse than withholding military aid from an ally as blackmail to force their president to agree to fabricate a criminal investigation against your political opponent?
Is it worse than politicizing the Centers for Disease Control to force them, during a pandemic, to release false information to the American public, for your own personal political benefit?
I could keep going but you get my point. You're freaking out over something Biden hasn't even said and jumping ship to a guy who's done far, far worse things.
And all the Republicans on Atlas are ignoring the fact that nobody actually wants to pack the court. The only reason this discussion is being had is because Republicans have already torn up the constitution to pack the court with their guys, and everyone in your party, including you, seems to be just cool with it. Either you're for court-packing or you're against it. Pick a side. Don't just switch sides based on the political party that's benefitting from it.
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And then there’s also the fact that it’s not actually unconstitutional to add justices to the Court. In fact, the Constitution says remarkably little about SCOTUS at all; if anything, pretty clear the founders wanted Congress to have the most power so they probably would not really object to the idea that strongly. It wasn’t until John Marshall basically granted SCOTUS magic powers out of thin air in Marbury v. Madison, powers that weren’t granted in the Constitution explicitly, that SCOTUS began to take on a life of its own. But it’s all based on shockingly little actual law, and a hell of a lot more on justices just pulling crap out of their asses. How anyone can say with a straight face that SCOTUS is some sacred institution after Dred Scott, Plessy, etc. is beyond me. It’s been a politicized, partisan institution which is as corrupt as any basically forever. We essentially have just pretended otherwise for a while and gotten by on that. But if the Republicans want to tear that pretense down, as Cocaine Moscow Mitch clearly does, so be it. There will be hell to pay when they do though. Time for the Court to have some LONG-needed and WELL-earned reform, I think.
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