• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    We called for this on day 1 of Biden’s first term…

    He chose to put a bipartisan committee in charge of seeing if we should just let the corrupt Republican SC stay in power, and the committee waited two years till dems didnt have the numbers to fix anything, before recommending Dems don’t fix anything.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/biden-support-expanding-supreme-court-white-house/story?id=85703773

    The aristocrats! /s

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      5 months ago

      As long as the Dems have less than 60 votes in the Senate, and aren’t willing to ditch the fucking filibuster, there’s literally nothing they can do.

      You can’t reform the court without a Constitutional Amendment since the operation and formation of the court is defined by the Constitution.

      So, 2/3rds vote in the House, 2/3rds vote in the Senate, ratification by the States.

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        5 months ago

        If the Republicans take the Senate and White House, they will ditch the filibuster the first day the next Senate leader takes the gavel. Count on it.

        The Judiciary Act of 1869 should be amended today, and 4+ justices should be confirmed before January. It’s a hell of a lot easier to confirm them now than it will be for Republicans to remove them from the bench next year. Not easy, mind you, but easier.