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If the party in power now packs the court, the other party will pack it the other way when it gets in power.
by xdennis 6y ago
If the party in power now packs the court, the other party will pack it the other way when it gets in power.
- sigzero 6y agoOne of the many reasons it's a stupid idea.
- majormajor 6y agoThe reasonable end game is probably something like justices with term limits, or a fixed number of appointments per presidential term. We probably will never get there without having to play stupid political games in the meantime, given the state of our political parties.
- Acrobatic_Road 6y agoYou don't understand. The party that packs the court should have enough votes to make sure they never lose power again. If the party in power packs the court, what's going to happen is the other half of the country will just declare the federal government illegitimate and form their own.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoI'm counting at least one Supreme Court justice robbed of the American people. Two more are ... questionable....
- lindy2021 6y agoWhich is why they are pushing to make DC the 51st state in tandem to ensure that doesn't happen. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989119412/house-democrats-pass-bill-to-make-d-c-the-51st-state https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989119412/house-democrats-pas...
- majormajor 6y agoYeah, fuck those people, they don't deserve representation cause it would be bad for the Republican Party.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoThe law has a solution for this. Portions of DC can and have been given back to the states. Frankly I think they should give the bulk of the "residential and normal city" areas of DC back to MD.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoMD doesn't want it, and I don't think there's a mechanism to give it back against their will