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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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Orava Aug 14, 2024

@rob @benroyce @RickiTarr
Also with more Justices you don't have to have all of them deciding on every case. Imagine if every case got assigned to 9 Justices drawn randomly from a pool of 18. Now you would have to buy 14/18 Justices to make sure you get the verdict you want instead of 5/9, almost triple the number.

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Orava

@rob @benroyce @RickiTarr
Actually that might also be something to do now to immediately unfuck the Court a bit, maybe? If cases before the SC were decided by a random panel of 3 random Justices instead of all of them, the six stooges sitting on the bench would no longer be guaranteed to get their way each and every time.