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[–] Daft_ish 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He's not all bad. He has let the democrats get through as many judges as possible. That said, he is a bad look for the party hands down. He allows moderates to believe democrats have a plurality when really they are just being lead by the people the least to the left. So when things go wrong it was the other 48's fault but not really.

[–] blazeknave 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You mean christofascist supreme court justices?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, the various federal benches. Which, incidentally, were the only federal positions that Trump had been filling with any urgency. Ambassadors and heads of departments all went unfilled, but not judges. So now the federal bench is stuffed with Trump appointees, and Democrats are only pushing back a bit.

If they had any sense, they'd quadruple the size of the federal judiciary and stuff it back up. The size hasn't been increased in a while, and the workload per judge has been pilling up, so there's a good reason to do this, anyway.

[–] Daft_ish 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

... no Joe Manchin has not helped the democrats appoint any christofascist Supreme Court Justices.

[–] blazeknave 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

??? No, he helped the fucking Republicans do it. Wtf man?

[–] Daft_ish 0 points 1 year ago

The Republicans didn't need his help.