• itappearsthat@hexbear.net
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    Keep your eye on the ball, people. If the dems literally never lose another election they should take the court back by 2050 and then start reversing all the terrible rulings that will happen in the next 25 years. I mean they won’t actually do that last part because they’ll treat those rulings as precedent, bricks in the great edifice of the american project we are all working together to build etc., but anyway I lost my train of thought

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    Uh, oh. What was the vote? Do I want to know?

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    While the decision was unanimous, the liberal justices wrote a sharp concurrence that accused the conservative majority of going further than needed

    Oh! A sharp concurrence!

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      “We, democrats, have learned our lesson with FDR. We can’t risk having too much power or we might be expected to use it.” The narrator says: “Biden/Harris 2024.” Tired Old Joe comes back and says: “I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message.”

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Damn, that’s crazy. Sounds like the US supreme court is some kind of fascist institution that the Joe Biden administration will surely destroy in their efforts to prevent American Fascism, Right?

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    Would liberals have even wanted this to pass? Indiana or Florida or any of the other states where Republicans do wacky shit would have instantly kicked Biden off the ballot.

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    Bit idea

    It is a time of miracles! In the first miracle - the dems take the house, get more seats in the senate, and Biden wins. In the second miracle - Biden says “We will pack the court.” Note that he goes whole hog and doesn’t even say “expand”. The third miracle is he actually he says they have the votes and they will pass the law in Biden’s first 100 days even though Fetterman is suddenly squishy and hints he might “jump ship” but he doesn’t elaborate.

    In the meantime all six GOP justices do something extremely unusual. They give interviews to very friendly right-wing media outlets. They say they have discovered a legal concept which means they can find court expansion unconstitutional. In the fourth miracle - the dems create a filibuster carveout and pass their court expansion law and threaten to “do something drastic” if the GOP justices find it unconstitutional. Lib experts all say “The conservative justices are bluffing. They cannot do this!”

    The court rules 9-0 that it’s unconstitutional. The 3 lib justices again issue a sharp concurrence. A few days later Justice Kagan is caught on a hot mic saying “I would have voted with the conservative judges anyway. A 6-3 ruling would cause the public to lose faith in the court as an institution. Even worse it would damage the all-important comity that exists between the justices.”

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    the coolest part of the ruling is that congress gets to decide what “insurrection” means re: the 14th amendment. get ready for a whole lot of red baiting targeting the most centrist of dems so that they can be “credibly accused” of insurrection.