This is literally explicitly legalized fascism and its the law of the land right now. Even if Biden wins he needs to do something to stop this before he leaves office or the US will forever be exactly as fascist as the President decides he wants to be. It’s here now.

There’s not much he can do short of committing a crime himself. Democrats don’t have control of the House, so there no way to increase the size of SCOTUS. They were smart in ruling bribery is legal before granting immunity, or Biden would have been able to officially order the DOJ to investigate SCOTUS for corruption.

His hands are tied unless he wants to get blood on them.

His hands are VERY TIED unless of course he decides whatever he does is Official Presidential Actions!

The ruling just absolves him from criminal activity. It doesn’t give him complete power to increase the size of SCOTUS or retire Justices. He’d have to order a hit on a Justice to leverage that ruling, and that is an act of an insane person.

I’d there were 5 justices, they’d still be functional. As proven in the past, there’s no requirement for 9.

It changed size six times before settling on nine Justices in 1869. Each time it was determined by a congressional vote. It’s not up to POTUS, it’s up to Congress.

It ran at 8 for quite a while. No one’s legitimately saying those decisions don’t count.

The official number can be whatever. Congress doesn’t get to nominate. And SCOTUS would keep deciding.

Do you understand that Congress needs to vote on the number of Justices?

I’m not talking about the vote on the nominee, but the actual number of Justices.

It is currently nine, and will remain nine, until Congress votes on a different number.

I’m not the one being slow. SCOTUS had 8 people while McConnell held up Garland.

Officially SCOTUS was and is nine people. But if the wheels of government turn slow enough, SCOTUS continues to do its job with whoever has made it through the process.

Officially 9, it functioned with 8. No one is credibly saying all those decisions must be thrown out or that SCOTUS cannot function during a shortage.

If that shortage was 4, people would be vocal. But legally, it would still be functional.

I not talking about changing the official number. I never did in this thread until you did.

You started this conversation by suggesting Biden “packs the Supreme Court.”

There are no vacancies. That means congressional vote to increase the number of Justices.

No.

I didn’t.

That was the start of this thread. I’m sorry I didn’t notice you were a different commenter.

No worries. Have absolutely done the same in the past.

And I’ll take the moment to salute your reliance on fact and citation. Wish more people did the same.

Cheers