rejected the idea."I would not get into court packing," Biden said."We add three justices. Next time around, we lose control, they add three justices. We begin to lose any credibility the court has at all."Sunday on the future of the Supreme Court, Biden did not discuss court packing. And on Sunday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demurred when asked whether a Democratic majority would consider expanding the court as reprisal for a late-term Trump appointment.
Friday."If he violates it, when Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court."open to the idea To University of Chicago law professor Brian Leiter, the current Supreme Court makeup is already evidence of court packing."The Republicans packed the court after Scalia's death when they denied President Obama his choice," Leiter told NPR."Now they want to pack it further and more consequentially, given that they would appoint a conservative to replace the liberal Ginsburg. If they pack the court, the Democrats would be crazy not to do their own court packing.
But court packing would be a"terrible idea," Somin warned,"as it would lead to a spiral that undermines the institution of judicial review." It would also open the door for Republicans to respond in kind."I don't see any likely way of avoiding the spiral, once one party has passed a court-packing bill once," he said.
Truly.
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If the Democrats pack the Supreme Court, would the Supreme Court decide if that is legal?
I beg your fucking pardon? A spiral of retaliation? No pick for Obama, that's a slap in the face, a pick for Trump is another slap to the face... You don't defeat a bully, by letting them keep getting away with it!
It’s quite something to lay the “cause” on Democrats when the rules got smashed by McConnell. Democrats are only discussing this option in order to right an injustice.
This is not a story. It is a distraction from the story.
Both parties are just lawyers, cons stringing us along so they can keep the ambitions of the elite class met. Colluding in a farce like professional wrestlers, entertaining and distracting us instead giving us the good, fair, different system of government we want and need.
Yep , pack it up to we were robed . In fact equalize and one incorruptible Chief Justice as the independent arbitrator
Wait. It lies only in the Democratic Party to avoid “spirals”? Clutch your damn pearls elsewhere , this is an actual battle.
A “spiral of retaliation” is where we are going anyway. Go ahead and pack the Supreme Court.
This is a strong reason NOT to vote for them on Nov. 3rd. They are hate-filled and vengeful.
It’s nonsense like this that led me to stop donating to my public radio station. The political press should be lambasting the GOP for their hypocrisy but they want to talk about hypothetical moves by a Senate that doesn’t yet exist.
Let's do this!
That’s right, y’all. If the Democrats respond to a Republican outrage (finally) the Republicans will have motivation to commit more outrages. So far, I guess, they’ve been committing outrages just for kicks.
Have these “experts” been paying attention to the GOP at all these past 25 years?
JoeBiden Get over it.. POTUS is within his constitutional right to appoint a judge
Court packing is so banana republic that 1937’s Democratic-controlled Senate rebuked FDR for even trying it. They wrote “... (it) should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.”
Lol we are way past retaliation, there are only winners & suckers, right from the mouth of Trump ( play chess & go big, or go home )
I used to donate to support NPR. Weasel wording like this to make the article click-bait for the center/right is why I stopped. Can’t alienate an expanded donor pool! How’s that going btw? Any big $ donations from repubs yet? Maybe if you keep leaning R they’ll hate you less.
So the democrats install 2 or 4 new justices after Biden wins. Then in four or eight years, the Republicans install 4 or 6 new justices. Then the democrats put in 12 new ones in their next term. Followed by Republicans putting 28 in on their turn, and so on... Where does it end?
Who cares fuck the GOP
Who cares, now we are in a spiral of Repubs doing whatever they want without consequence
Let’s win and get Trump OUT - then let’s start the clean up America and her global reputation. Get Trump out and let’s form a stronger more unified America. Let’s dump Trump.
If Dems ever pull heads out of ass and grow a pair, if they ever control all 3 branches again either tell trump's appointments to resign or add 4 more. Republicans stopped playing by normal rules ever since 2010.
BRING IT. Republicans have gone far too long ignoring subpoenas, using foreign help to cheat, sabotaging our healthcare system and reducing equality and access for women, the LGBTQ community and people of color. Hard times require hard measures.
90% of what is wrong with things right now is due to Democrats being so diplomatic while Republican hypocrites charge headlong. Fortune favors the bold. Democrats need to grow a spine and go low, not high. Pack the courts. Fuck the GOP
More hand wringing by the Left. The Right is rolling on the floor laughing. You’re either part of the spiral or you watch it. Either way, it spirals.
Why is it so hard to understand.... Mitch Mcconnell had the power then and he has the power now. Just in case all of you forgot he was put into power by the people both times. And you can't blame that on the electoral college.
Reinstate the filibuster. It will make government have to work together, instead of just flip-flopping between extremes every election.
There are zero parts of this that are illegitimate or unconstitutional. The timing is potentially devastating for one side but the childish backlash is what will destroy what is left of this country. Election2020
Scotus is at this point so badly tainted, it is illegitimate
I don’t like what the Republicans r doing, but they have the power. Let this be a lesson for Democrats who sit out any election. Stop assuming traditions will be followed as that is no longer our politics. It’s scorched earth now.
The gop has been stacking lower courts for the last 4 years
Democrats have always been willing to change the rules to get their way. DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica
It's entirely Constitutional. We are already in the abyss. To pretend we aren't is what's 'terrible.' We are NOT undoing 60 years of progress. Changing basic human rights precedent undermines judicial review. Men are NOT going to control women's autonomy over their own bodies.
Not if we burn the GOP to the ground and piss on their ashes.
And that fear is why the Dems keep losing.
Some say.
Republicans are banking on the fact that no matter what they do, Democrats won't retaliate when we're in power. Yea...that's not happening. The nice Democrat died right around the time the 'grab em by the pussy' buy weaseled his way into our White House.
And what we have now is NOT a spiral of retaliation?
Maybe we should consider changing some of our system so that a President, regardless of party, doesn’t have the power to appoint so many judges that it affects the country for decades to come. We are seeing vulnerabilities that should be addressed to protect our democracy.
Sounds like your headline writer has a flair for the dramatic. 🙄
Blame McConnell, not Dems.
Criminal.
Expanding SCOTUS to account for the illegitimate appointments of Gorsuch and Brett the Beer-Loving Harasser is a necessary step to restore balance. It’s only “packing” in the sick and twisted minds of Trumpists who believe they own the Court. Fuck off with your RWNJ framing.
I woukd not worry about that. The lk ast 4 years have been a d uh saster on every level. Time to do the same. First up: VoteBidenHarrisToSaveAmerica VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare to FlipTheSenateB
That’s too bad. The gop can stop the spiral either now or the next time they have power.
Too bad experts! We are not taking any more BS from these corrupt Republicans who are strangling our democracy to death.
Why are we fighting in the first place? This duopoly of Democrats and Republicans that is foisted on us fosters the need to resist, dismantle, revoke, obstruct and pay back... the other side. Who wins? Certainly not the American people.
The 'spiral of retaliation' has been going on for years...
it is fine for democrats to make threats of retaliation but republicans are bullies and evil when they say what they will do
If they take real steps to end voter suppression and gerrymandering, you’ll never see a GOP dominated Congress again in the history of the world anyway
Imagine being on the moral high ground! Dems are not. Pack the courts! Republicans did it, make them the ones who should debate ending THEIR hypocrisy. Add 9 more justices! Add young justices that represent the population. Elect a Native American SCOTUS
How childish
Good lord. We wouldn’t be in this situation if Harry Read didn’t do away with the 60 vote threshold which republicans expanded on. How many justices do we want? I think 9 is enough
Trump says: 'we have the Senate,' so 'there's a difference' - when you have the Senate, 'you can sort of do what you want.' So why is there this persistent hand wringing about what Democrats might do? No one holds Republicans to the same standards or expectations.
The GOP started spiralling ages ago.
It’s passed due. Time to call it what it is...CORRUPTION !
Dems have been talking about packing the Court long before RBG’s passing. Millions voted in 2016 to keep Dems from making SCOTUS appointments, not because they liked Trump. Your bias is obvious...
It was tried once before and failed miserably. Though this is consistent with the Democrat line of 'party first.'
I'm pretty sure we're already in a deathspiral here.
SCOTUS pick: Every Justice, every woman, every man and every child is free to change their own minds and perspectives, that is the nature of development. Ideally all Justices must be Apolitical in order to be named. They must be Ambassadors of Wisdom not pawns in a game.
The Democrats never do what is right for the country, its all about keeping power for themselves. Its nauseating.
Oh come on NPR, the GOP does whatever they want with impunity, if we do not fight back then we might as well give up. Stop it with this 'balanced reporting' that makes it look like Dems are in the wrong when the GOP is blatantly EVIL
That would be no better than tRump picking a judge now. We must get back to fairness and decency and now is a good time to start. I have no confidence that this will happen.
I want Dems to cheat the way Repubs have done and cheat harder.
It would more likely cause a spiral of bitch ass whining and victim behavior
Defund NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE RADIO. NPR
Oh! I get it your assuming Pedo Joe and the Ho will win 😉 🤣😂
What can republicans do in retaliation that they haven't already done out of spite!? Now is the time for Democrats to grow a back bone or get out of the way when the next bernie comes along.
Blaming the Dems is like blaming a victim of abuse. Republicans are the sole cause of this mess.
NPR, other media outlets, Democrats - demand a particular course of action on filling the vacancy. They've lost the ability to ask nicely.
MerrickGarland now
McConnell blocks Obama judicial nominations for years, then rams through over 200 Trump appointments, many unqualified, Dems *talk* about adding SCOTUS seats and suddenly it’s a “Spiral of retaliation?”
If republicans have no word... what are democrats suppose to do? Sit and take it!
Funny how no one says that about them refusing to bring Garland nom to a vote.
Seriously? You are blaming Dems for this? You sound like the guy yesterday who blamed Democrats for Roe v. Wade--a 7-2 decision which included 5 conservative justices. Get a grip on reality.
I am all for it. The Republicans say one thing when it is to their advantage and do a complete 360 turn when it benefits Republicans. It is time the Democratic start punching back. Let them realize there is another side to te coin.
Some Republicans are open to pushing a nominee through right before an election, even though they insisted on the opposite four years ago. But the move could cause a 'spiral' of retaliation, says everyone who is honestly assessing the situation.
NPR are you on whatever drugs the President is taking? What is with you lately I feel like I don’t even know you any more, and if this is how you are going to act, maybe we shouldn’t see each other any more
We should go with Mayor Pete’s plan and take the politics out of the courts
All is fair in the fight against evil. Thanks for supporting JoeBiden.
So funny. Isn’t the nuclear option the product of Democrats?
“We have to let them win because they might try to win”
The court is already illegitimate in so many eyes...may as well at least have it under dem control
You would literally never phrase this issue this way if it were Republicans planning to “pack” the Court. It would be, “Democrats fear Republicans adding SC Justices will solidify their base of support.” It’s always “Republicans Win, Democrats Lose” in Beltway Pundit World.
Arent we there already?
That's kind of what I'm thinking too. Nothing good can come from any kind of partisan motivated change to the SCOTUS. Wish the Republicans would learn that lesson, then this wouldn't even be an issue.
“Experts.”
As Trump says “when you control the Senate you can sorta do whatever you want”. Pretty sure the Republicans will “retaliate” regardless of what Dems do. They might stuff the court in lame duck session as it is.
I love how this phrases any move dems make as leading to a spiral of retaliation when they would be doing the retaliating. Why does the narrative always say come on, Republicans are going to do bad stuff so dems better not get down in the gutter with them or it will get worse.
Other way around. Try this: “ In a massive move of hypocrisy, McConnell moves to cheat yet again, sending what experts say could cause a “spiral” of retaliation.
They can stop making decisions based on what they're scared Republicans are going to do in retaliation because we all know they're going to do the worst most brutal most awful things imaginable no matter what
THe gop has been retaliating against the American people for 50 years! Dems need to destroy them and do what they do when they have power
Of course. If they can't win within the rules, change the rules in their favor. Bunch of idiots.
We're already in a spiral of retaliation started by Democrats.
Fuck this article. The GOP is burning it all down. And we are to worry about retaliation? Blow the whole thing up and see which party when the people go to the polls have the people’s interests at heart.
So, what? We just let the GOP trample everything?
I honestly don’t think people understand how four years of Trump have changed people on the left. We don’t sleep, we’re scared for our children, we can’t believe the depths our friends and neighbors have sunk to, and we all understand Nazi a Germany so much better.
Nice attempt at Gaslighting,
Scholars also say that NPR is corporate trash.
When almost all of the majority wing of the Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote and 1 justice essentially being stolen from the first black president, what is being proposed is an Unpacking of the court for the betterment of Democracy.
Retaliate away. Or maybe we’ll grab power and make it so you don’t get back in power for 100 years. We didn’t start the 🔥.
The Republicans would certainly do it. At this point, after the 2000 Election, Merrick Garland, voter suppression, gerrymandering, and the clear dangers Trump and the GOP pose to democracy, Democrats need to do what it takes to bring back a balance of power.
Republicans get to behave badly repeatedly, but dems trying to get back on even footing would cause a “retaliatory spiral”? Nope.
DO NOT CARE. This analysis is only about the horse race. Good bye, NPR.
We need to combine expanding the Supreme Court with admitting new states. That way without major party reform, the GOP won't hold onto majority power ever again. No spiral and finally the possibility for real societal progress.
The so-called 'liberal media' has really internalized the idea that Dems are responsible for what Republicans choose to do.
After what Ds did to Kavanaugh, Trump should nominate a judge immediately. And senate should confirm Democrats cannot be given any power.
The “spiral of retaliation” began with a stolen Merrick Garland seat and blatant GOP hypocrisy.
Oh nooooo... a strong, democratic move by humans might upset the greedy profit/power-driven corporatists and then they might be mean to us. THANKS, for being 'Chicken Littles'.
Why is it that the NRP's of the world worry about the 'not yet' damage the Dem's will do to the court, but never say a word about the damage that Repub. have done to the entire judicial system. The interity of the courts may never recover. That should be the issue NOW.
because you don’t like it does not make it “illegitimate”. npr, please stop feeding into the stupidity.
Protesting British taxes by throwing tea into Boston harbor 'may lead to a spiral of retaliation,' experts say
Considering Republicans have spent years spinning about the Bork hearings to justify every overreach and shattered norm related to the courts, I'd say that ship has sailed.
If no no when progressives take over SCOTUS will be irrelevant body!
I think that a “spiral of retaliation” against Republicans is a wonderful idea!
Spiral already exists.
The idea is never to let Republicans have a Senate majority of defile the White House again!
Blah, blah, blah. Gloves are off. It’s not stacking it’s creating a fair balance.
JFC NPR, we’re already there.
Wouldn’t expanding the courts be a retaliation in the first place?
Don't place the blame on D's....its a response to minority rule that is hypocrisy of the highest order. Blame R's for being LIARS
So we just let Moscow Mitch and his cabal get away with this?
Responding to shattering of norms by shattering norms might lead to shattering of norms, say ivory tower theorists.
GOP has already spiraled retaliation in the deaths of 200,000 loved ones.
Crooked Democrats.
Biden, where's your list? We are waiting. Of course you do not have one.
Um.....where was this article in 2016? Why isn't the headline 'Republicans ignore the hypocrisy of filling SCOTUS seat weeks before an election but move could cause a spiral of retaliation.'?
It would be wrong to call any Republican response “retaliation” as they’re making it clear that they are going to engage in this sort of unprincipled power grabbing behavior regardless of what the Democrats do.
29 SC vacancies in an election, 29 nominations. If President Trump doesn’t nominate someone, he will be breaking precedent
'soiral of retaliation'...Repos have already stolen one pick and are trying to steal another. F them.
The Koch brothers seem to get a lot of play on NPR and it’s getting tiring.
Who cares.
They were threatening it before Ginsberg's death and, subsequently, they are now threatening violence if the President/Congress do their jobs. America should not give in to extortion. President Trump/Congress were elected to terms, and they should work until terms are complete.
It would continue an existing spiral, not “create” one
STOP “the gop corruption of 03/2016 & 09/2020 May cause a 'spiral' of retaliation, experts say.” Fixed it for you. The corruption NOT the reaction to corruption
It’s called needed reform, not packing. Stop with the Repub rhetoric.
Merrick Garland sparked the retaliation spiral. That’s Mitch.
Well the do nothing approach doesn’t seem like a good idea either
Hopefully the thing that's been happening for 50 years doesn't happen 🥴
So what. Democrats need to grow some balls. Stop being on the defensive. We are those in the right we should be more aggressive. We are the Moral Majority. We are the sensible. We are the humanitarians. We are the true Americans. GOP have proven themselves to be traitors.
So how about if President Trump and the GOP agree with the Democrats that increasing the number of justices is a good idea, and promise to do so if reelected?
one of your “experts” is an ideologue and part of the Cato Institute, started by a Koch brother.
Dem gotta stop playing nice. The GOP doesn't.
Don't use the term Packing. Dates to F. Roosevelt (our pop. was 128 M) with 9 Justices (S.Ct. formed as 6 Justices with 4M pop.) Today we have 350M citizens still relying on 9 Justices. Call it upgrading to serve growing US needs. They hear fraction of cases filed. It's time.
No. The retaliation began when a black man was elected president and Mitch McConnell and republicans obstructed everything. All because they were whiney bitches about a black man being president. The retaliation lies with, and has/will always lie with The Republican Party.
It has been done before to right wrongs and if the republicans pull this I would do it again. Even if they do not pull this I would still do it. The court needs to change so 11 or 13 judges can make majority decisions mean something
Dems need to pack the Court if they can. Stop being so 'polite.' The repub party has been ruined and the only hope for our country is Dems taking over. Next, limit SCOTUS justice terms to 10 years. Then packing the Court will have less impact.
The SC is packed already with GOP in the lead
You can’t negotiate with a terrorist (Republicans) Democrats should do what they need to do when they can to rectify the transgressions and hypocrisy of republicans
So let me understand this; Republicans have not only been packing the Supreme Court, but packing Federal Judges in courts throughout this country for years and yet, the writer of this opinion piece is warning about Democrats “packing the courts? Hypocrisy anyone?
Get over it! Most Americans want god back in schools, marriage to be between a man and a woman, energy from fossil fuels, no abortions, and the right to bear arms!
Who cares about “retaliation” when one side wants to destroy the world?
The Supreme Court is already a pretty dumb insitution. Just go ahead and pack it with 50 justices.
That cat left the bag in 2016. This is the true McConnell precedent.
Why do you always expect Democrats to consider what's good for the country, but Republicans can do what they want and don't have to consider We The People?
You know what, I’m tired of that comeback. The GOP is already practicing retaliation and court packing.
Term limits for Senators makes more sense. Serving in Congress needs to become a vocation again. It should not be a career.
Add term limits
The radical right Republicans cannot be allowed to keep doing what they want while trying to institute one-party rule. They want a fight, I say give it to them.
Maybe. But if the court goes to 11, what retaliation would they try beyond reversing it? If the seats are filled, that might prove difficult.
it’s not court packing, it’s using a constitutional means to expand the court after the GOP broke all norms.
'Experts'
I will fix your headline. Democrats to pack courts to eliminate political bias and restore democracy
If Dems play their cards right - and as ruthlessly as Republicans have for the last 25 years - it's unlikely Rs will be in a position of real power again in 50 years, since the majority of the public is left of center now.
Fine! Let them retaliate. I’m tired of letting things go.
decades of gerrymandering and other schemes that have led to over-representation of republicans... “retaliation spiral” headline is moronic
Here's the link to donate to the GetMitch fund which is working to elect Dems in Competitive senate races
GOP has been brazen about their pursuit to interfere with Dem success since Obama became president. Dems MUST reset the course of this country, not just return to standard decorum upon gaining power. Not retaliation, rehabilitation.
Pack the Court. D.C. & Puerto Rico statehood. Redraw district lines. Impeach Gorsuch & whoever they try to ram through. Absolutely nothing is off the table anymore.
we are living in trump’s spiral of retaliation right now!
The Republican playbook: 1. Do it 2. Dare the Dems to stop them 3. Repeat The Democratic playbook: 1. Symbolic gesture 2. Apologize 3. Repeat
Political move incites political response...
Mitch McConnell was the first mover in the court packing war, not Democrats.
Not making the move would cause permanent minority rule, not to mention the end of democracy and the planet
99 bottles of beer, I mean supreme court judges, on the wall?
LET’S ROLL!!!
Fight fire with fire. Be RUTH LESS.
What if the Republicans did that right now?
Some Democrats have open to packing the Supreme Court for quite a while - which makes it hard to hold the moral high ground here.
Old men have such a heavy burden.
What part of the POTUS doing his job is illegal, lawless Left?
You guys are SO BAD at this.
Idea: constitutional amendment that says any justice appointed six months before the inauguration will serve a temporary term that ends by July
Experts are worthless here then. You can’t save a democracy with nice words.,
The Democrats should no longer have their authority or their legitimacy respected.
Here’s what I have to say about that...
Stop using the GOP framed word “packing”!
A similar plan was proposed by one of the most popular presidents of the 20th Century. A man who won four consecutive elections. It was viewed negatively then, just as I fear it would be viewed negatively today.
Aren't we already there?
I don’t see the point of pieces like these.
It’s purely about returning the Supreme Court to normalcy when Republicans are trying to turn it into another political arm, and that’s not what the Founders intended.
'Experts'? This is how US got into this horror of BAD representation. The system is irretrievably broken.
The Supreme Court should be filled with judges who are scholars of the law. red or blue values have no place in that court.
If REPUBLICANS pack the court they will set the spiral. No spiral is more frightening than living under minority extremist rule for 40 years. NOTHING.
Republican opened the gate and had been doing that for the past four years. Ted Cruz openly said that politics is a winner takes all sport. Democrats can expand the court and then makes super majority a requirement afterward.
Well they’ll have to capture all the houses of government. Something has to give. These monsters are hurting people and stealing elections. We have to use every lever available.
“Experts say”. Oh , what happened to you...
Nope it’s re balancing the court The republicans are never to be trusted The End
Where do those experts think we currently exist? Enough already.
The spiral didn't start with us, and we need to take and hold power. Republicans are traitors. The Revolution will be broadcast, check your local NPR station!
American politics were reduced to a spiral of retaliation years ago.
What's the alternative when GOP are not faithful actors? We're losing our democracy. Our founding fathers didn't foresee 3 branches of government captured by a party and likely foreign adversaries
This is among so many reasons I don't contribute to NPR and never will. You are all as worthless as you can imagine being. I'll let your superior reporting skills figure out why. Just ask some aging jerk with a neck beard in an Iowa cafe why I might hate you more than he does...
Democrats should stop being the moral police and get in the mud with them.
Tough. Do it anyway. The GOP is going to screw over the country and the Dems anyway. We might as well get some punches in too.
Ever notice that as soon as someone proposes something to fix something a bunch of 'talking heads' come out with the 47 reasons it shouldn't be done. Heads up: Anything that WORKS, has side effects. That doesn't mean you don't treat the patient.
When democrats begin to display a spine after decades of Republicans trampling over institutions:
Are we not already in a spiral of retaliation? Of course we are. Mitch did that.
Do away with lifetime appointment
packing the court merely reflects the courts illegitimacy. states will just ignore it anyway. go ahead: SCOTUS decides 6-3 to make obamacare and gay marriage illegal. think California will obey it? NYC? or do blue states all become Andrew Jackson: 'Great. Now Enforce it'
No it won't. Here is what the Dems should do if they sweep 2020: -add 4 justices, 100 circuit judges -give EVERY territory a chance to become a state, not just DC/PR -then pass a LAW requiring a 2/3 majority in both House and Senate to change number of SCOTUS judges.
Who are these 'experts'? I want more than just names and where they're employed; I want full histories; where they studied; who they studied under; what papers they've written; where they get their funding; if they give one single fucking fuck about democracy.
It’s about time. For years, R’s have run a persistent, shameful court-packing scheme.
EdMorrissey Could cause? It will. Same with packing the Senate.
This is ridiculous. The spiral of retaliation has already begun.
A spiral is better than a straight line to hell.
The spiral is already here. Has anybody ever heard of Mitch McConnell?
Up it to 69
'But the move could cause a 'spiral' of retaliation, experts say.' You know why the Republicans win the battles of SCOTUS nominees? Because they don't ponder these kinds of stupid questions. JUST DO IT ALREADY AND WE WILL FIGHT THEIR COUNTER ATTACK LATER!
Hilarious to see libs crying about rules when liberals have been burning cities and demanding defunding police for months
We have been in a retaliation spiral since the 2000s. The problem is that a lot of Dems/Progressives didn't realoze this until way too late.
So what? Let’s gooo !!!!!!
Weird how those are never about republican actions... where was the handwringing for the past 4 yrs about what the GOP was doing to this country? Do you have any idea how long recovering democracy, diplomacy, and standing in the world is going to take? Right. No one does.
So the Rethugs can pact the court with unqualified judges but Democrats shouldn’t because ‘spiral’ of retaliation? FUCK THAT SHIT! VOTE!
I think it’s more expansion for fairness vs. “packing”
Worrying about GOP retaliation and expecting them to play by the rules got us here. PackTheCourt
Packing the court IS the reaction spiral. If trump rapes another justice on to the court, retaliation is the only option.
Courts are supposed to enforce laws made be elected government officials—not legislate from their lower positions as judges!!! Not all lawyers are honest just are ALL politicians aren’t either!!! Vote for honesty not ideology!!!
That is why we need to pack the senate as well and give statehood to the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. That would add 6 solid democratic seats and balance out small Republican rural states. AOC SenSchumer SpeakerPelosi
The Republicans don't care! No matter what anyone would do it would be attacked they would lie cheat and manipulate the situation. Democrats must stand strong with character honesty and integrity.
Ahhh, both sides-ism raises it's head again. Well done.
Not to worry, Steve Inskeep has, as he usually does, suggested a few things for Dems to do (Since media seems to control our govt these days.). SC term limits, add more Justices. Funny how the left wants everything to change the second anything happens that doesn't benefit them.
is stephen miller writing your headlines
Bull shit. Why are raw political moves only tolerated by the GOP
“what they perceive as an illegitimate” gee - I wonder why they feel that way? 🙄 thanks for your both sides journalism, it’s helping wreck our democracy
Oh stop with the hypothesis. Always afraid to act .Just do to.
🧳🧳🧳🧳🧳 Pack ‘em.
Got it. Now are you going to run to the 'heartland' and interview a bunch of white supremacists about how they are crying on the inside?
We will do what is necessary to assure freedom and well-being for American citizens. LibertyAndJusticeForAll Emma4Change
If Democrats are concerned about Republicans actively sabotaging them and playing partisan games in response they haven't been paying attention for the past decades.
Definitely would not like to be nominated for a'shitty rapist',even if he was for a Supreme Court seat, even if the rapist was the President in the WhiteHouse That would not be good for reputation who has the image associated with realDonaldTrump, and to Democracy American
As if that hasn’t already begun.
It would be McConnell’s hypocrisy that started the spiral . Why do the Democrats have to play by “the rules” but not the Republicans?
Oh, look, another discussion of a possible Democratic reaction to yet another gop outrage that is instead framed as an incitement to some future gop outrage.
Dems keep worrying about norms and retaliation and meanwhile they lose power every year and democracy erodes before our eyes.
It’s LEGAL, there’s illegitimate about it 🤦🏼♂️
Yes, Dems should just lie down and continue to helplessly eat the shit sandwiches McConnell serves up to them.
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