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Ricki Yasha Tarr Aug 14, 2024

It is killing me that suddenly the Conservatives want us to engage with them in good faith, and leadership is finally saying, NO. You want a 13 year old to give birth or a woman to get sepsis before she can get an abortion, you're being gross and weird. We should have never have left this up for debate.

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ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Aug 14, 2024

@RickiTarr

when you engage the #GOP in good faith, they whine you can't have a new #scotus justice in a presidential #election year

#centrist #democrats folded, milquetoast, weak, and we got #gorsuch instead of #garland replacing #scalia

scalia died feb '16, gorsuch confirmed apr '17

then they hammer through a new supreme court justice with an election 2 months out, #barrett replacing #ginsburg

ginsburg died sep '20, barrett confirmed oct '20

the GOP only deserves ash. fuck them forever

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Rob Aug 14, 2024

@benroyce @RickiTarr
Every day, I am more and more for expanding the number of justices on the court. The constitution does not specify the number of justices. Why 9? That used to be the number of circuits. Now there are 13. Why did we stay with 9?

I think if there were hundreds of justices, that would mean their opinions would start to reflect the general population.

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2xfo

@rob @benroyce @RickiTarr

If there were hundreds of judges we wouldn't have this judicial cult of personality around them. It would be a lot easier to remove corrupt individuals without one side feeling like they've lost clout for a generation.