A 6-3 conservative majority Court will overturn every program Biden gets passed.

[Bleacher Creature]

Expanding the Court isn't just necessary as a matter of fairness. It's also about preserving the programs Biden shepherds through the next (hopefully Democratic) Congress. That includes programs designed to combat climate change, health care reform, etc. infrastructure spending would probably pass muster, but that's about it.

[arlyellowdog]

1. Win state elections and write good laws

If the ACA is overturned, write the law smarter. Win state legislatures. Win elections. We can’t count on Ruthie anymore and we are already getting smarter.

[Yavin4]

3. The conservative judiciary will over turn any new law, no matter how well it's written. n/t

[AleksS]

11. Yup! THIS.

See: Wisconsin.

Don’t expect GOP justices to be any less despicable than GOP Senators.

They’ll just find some sucker to sue about any law they don’t like, and zip-zoom-zam the USSC agrees to take the case straight away without it even needing to go through the appeals process, and gives the GOP the overturning they ask for.

Like in WI.

Assume that from here on out, unless the USSC is changed, that republicans will have a defacto veto power over any and all legislation, regulation, executive orders, rule changes, etc.

[Yavin4]

12. Not just new legislation. They will go after well-established ones as well.

Like Social Security, Medicare, Civil Right laws, everything is on the table. Everything.

[kairos12]

14. Their dream. Anything from the New Deal onward will be trashed.

[lagomorph777]

4. Yes to all that. And expand the Court so the smarter laws stay in effect.

[arlyellowdog]

7. Yes

[ace3csusm]

5. My thoughts exactly

get to a point where the Supreme Court becomes irrelevant take away their power remember the President has ultimate power

[BamaRefugee]

2. So let Joe set the All-Time World Record for Executive Orders, while also setting the record for

rescinding the most Executive Orders by a previous pResident.

[Thekaspervote]

6. I've been saying that several times since yesterday! They will, they will run to the court with

Everything regardless of how well written or bullet proof. Biden is very savvy, he already sees what will happen. He/we can’t have that. We’ll never get anything accomplished

[Initech]

10. That's the plan.

They want to sabotage all of our ideas and plans for this country, which is why they elected the boorish jackass in the first place. Then it gives their morning drive time program of choice fuel for the fire, so they can say to their audience who doesn't think for themselves - "SEE! LIBERAL PLANS DON'T WORK!!!1!!!1!". Rinse and repeat. It's all part of their master plan.

[matt819]

8. Maybe not

A recent article reported that the court has surprised people with somewhat mainstream decisions that Dems/liberals were hoping for, and that Roberts may be moving slightly more toward the center to offset Kavanaugh and the other RW-ers. He's concerned, the report said, about his reputation and legacy, and he doesn't want it tied exclusively to conservatives (although I would have used RWNJs).

Maybe yes, maybe no. But it was on the internet, so it must be true.

With Biden in the WH and a Dem senate and house, maybe an expanded supreme court will change things, as well as the creation of more judgeships in the federal system stacked with Dems, will change things.

[DFW]

9. Minor nuance

The Senate is active. The Court is reactive. The Senate enacts. The SC only gets involved when cases are brought before it. The Senate can run like the wind if it wants to (just ask McTurtle). The Court can’t make cases up to be brought before it, and they have to go through channels to get there. IF the Court starts behaving like a Republican-led Senate, it will find its numbers increased within a far shorter time than it thought possible

[Bleacher Creature]

13. Fair point, but there will always be some RW state attorney general willing to sue to overturn.

It won't be immediate, as the case will need to go through the District and Appeals Courts, which are also stacked with Republicans.

[Calista241]

15. The Doom and Gloom is strong in this thread.

The fact is the ACA is still hear, 10 years after it was passed. Obergefell is still the prevailing law and grants our LGBTQ community the rights afforded to heterosexuals, and just last term Roe v Wade was upheld once again. It's still the law of the land, and has been reaffirmed multiple times. Overturning precedent is not easy, even when it looks like it would be.

And Roe v Wade was issued in 1973, well before RBG was appointed to the court 20 years later. Tying her to this one aspect of women's rights is a disservice to her lifetime of achievements and jurisprudence (not the OP, but many people her and elsewhere are doing this).

When I think of RBG, I don't think of Roe v Wade. I think of the benefits she's accomplished for women and other oppressed people in our society. Her opinion quashed male only attendance at Virginia Military Institute (United States v Virginia). She read her dissent to the court when they prevented giving women the right to sue their employer for not providing them equal pay (Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co). This dissent directly lead to the Obama Administration signing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. She wrote the opinion that eliminated asset forfeiture just last year (Timbs v Indiana). One of the primary reasons we're still talking about the VRA today is RBG's dissent in the Shelby County v Holder case.

RBG was a great woman, and an even better Supreme Court Justice. Statues of her should be erected everywhere.

In my calculus, having the Supreme Court overturn Roe could be the greatest boon to democrats of all time. In no time, we'd have dem supermajorities and codification of Roe into law would last for all time.