This LPT doesn’t violate the community rule against illegal advice because in this purely hypothetical scenario the law means nothing

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      15 hours ago

      Democrats didn’t have control/majority over the Supreme Court, so there was at least check on power. No such checks on power exist for the GOP right now.

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      12 hours ago

      Not accurate. In 2021 the Supreme Court was split 6-3 in Republican favor.

      Also, the Senate was super split with 50 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 2 Independent Senators (who, although they caucused with the Democrats, wouldn’t necessarily vote in lockstep) – and two of the Democrats (Manchin and Sinema) seemed more interested in obstructing things than in the party’s agenda.

      You’d have a better argument if you’d brought up the ACA, IMO. The numbers in Congress favored the Dems more in 2009-2011.