President Biden said he won’t expand the Supreme Court because doing so would “politicize” the court in an unhealthy way. But it’s a political institution by its nature — and a disturbingly undemocratic one.
2016 primary voters should’ve picked a better candidate, but you can’t turn back time, so the only option is to pack the court.
I’m not getting in the way. There is little movement to expand the court.
You are, because the way to build that movement is to start doing public advocacy for the solution to the problem and on-board the public, which you have spent this entire comment chain arguing against.
Pointing out the hurdles you have to take into consideration isn’t blocking it. If you have a list of seats that can be flipped in 2024 with this in mind, please share them. We already know there aren’t 50 Senators on board today and 2 of them will never change their minds. That’s reality.
You don’t even need to flip seats for the 2024 cycle. You can just use the cycle to seed the idea for 2026 and 2028 and get people more comfortable with it and track popularity. The hurdles you’ve mentioned have already been taken into consideration and are largely irrelevant for this purpose.
2016 primary voters should’ve picked a better candidate, but you can’t turn back time, so the only option is to pack the court.
You are, because the way to build that movement is to start doing public advocacy for the solution to the problem and on-board the public, which you have spent this entire comment chain arguing against.
Pointing out the hurdles you have to take into consideration isn’t blocking it. If you have a list of seats that can be flipped in 2024 with this in mind, please share them. We already know there aren’t 50 Senators on board today and 2 of them will never change their minds. That’s reality.
You don’t even need to flip seats for the 2024 cycle. You can just use the cycle to seed the idea for 2026 and 2028 and get people more comfortable with it and track popularity. The hurdles you’ve mentioned have already been taken into consideration and are largely irrelevant for this purpose.