Reminder that getting control of the house and senate could make stuff like this potentially get through

This proposal is not only one that expands the number of justices over time but alter things like the court’s shadow docket, require justices to release tax returns, and more

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    Are we going to pretend they’re not just going to jump to the latter without feigning an attempt to do the prior?

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      You need a supermajority of states to ratify an amendment, and there is no reason for Republican-led states to back any amendment that will reform the current court. But add six young liberal justices with lifetime tenure, and now they will go out of their way to pass an amendment to term-limit the,.

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        So this time the Dems will get it together to put 6 judges into an expanded court?

        That would be so much better than the zero which is their average output.