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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo the Six Shits Sitting on SCOTUS
What goes around comes around, fuckos. In 2029, you're going to find out the limits of your lifetime appointments when the new Democratic President calls for the expansion of the court to 15 (two over the circuit court numbers) and the call for your immediate removal through impeachment.
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To the Six Shits Sitting on SCOTUS (Original Post)
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Sep 2025
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What I don't understand: if a president can bump the Extreme Court to 13 or 15 justices, ...
JustABozoOnThisBus
Sep 2025
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GreenWave
(12,371 posts)1. Make it so! Engage!
RainCaster
(13,390 posts)2. Best idea I've heard today
That democratic president can appoint a shit ton of liberal justices to that court, and they can begin to undo all that damage Roberts gave us.
Scrivener7
(58,446 posts)3. I wish. But I doubt it.
dalton99a
(92,321 posts)4. Democrats who are against expansion should be primaried.
Expand the court, or live under Republican rule forever
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,607 posts)5. What I don't understand: if a president can bump the Extreme Court to 13 or 15 justices, ...
... why hasn't Trump done this? Shirley, Leonard Leo has binders full of Opus Dei ultra-pro-lifers waiting in the wings.
Edited to fix a misssspelling.
SickOfTheOnePct
(8,710 posts)6. A President can't bump the number n/t
NNadir
(37,338 posts)7. It's a nice thought, but right now if any those political hacks dies we'll get even worse.
The current Supreme Court is working overtime to destroy the rule of law.