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Conservatives work very hard to maintain their reputation as the dumbest people imaginable
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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lol whole fricking concept of court packign is just to try and counteract the plays already done.
IE the fact that trump was given as many nominations in 4 years, that Obama and Biden got in 12.
Which yeah does IMO kind of highlight the problem in the system in general. IE lifetime appointments are a variable that's already a bit broken. IE hypothetically if one party were trying to break the system, they could have ages ago by just intentionally having all of their members step down when their party is in power, ensuring that there is never a risk of a flip beyond an unexpected death.
But yes obviously progressive groups weren't subtle about the fact that flipping the SC is the reason to expand it. and again it's literally because it is feasible that as the rules of the game are apparent, if the court is never expanded, a conservative supermajority could be maintained indefinately even if republicans only win the presidency 1/4th of the time.
IE I would be very shocked it thomas and alito don't retire in trumps current term, and get replaced by young corrupt conservatives.