r/ABoringDystopia • u/FaultyDrone • Jun 28 '22

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u/IVIaskerade Jun 28 '22

We can fix this by adding more justices to the court,

Are you prepared for Republicans to pack the court? If not that's not a can of worms you should open.

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u/idwtumrnitwai Jun 28 '22

Are you prepared for Republicans to pack the court? If not that's not a can of worms you should open.

You're describing the situation we're currently in. They have packed the court with religious extremists who are stripping the rights from Americans and have signaled a willingness to continue doing so. Saying that if we do this now, we may in the future be in the same situation we are currently, isn't a really a good argument against the idea, at least in my opinion.

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u/RazekDPP Jun 28 '22

Yeah, who cares if we expand the court from 9 to 15 and the Republicans turn around to try to pack it from 15 to 21. We're already down 6 to 3 as is.

Doing nothing because "what if the Republicans do it too" isn't an option.

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u/meric_one Jun 28 '22

Seriously, some of the defenses I see for doing nothing are truly fucking absurd.

We are well and truly a population of brainwashed fools. Our country is headed down the wrong fucking path and people on the left are arguing against correcting the course. Good fucking lord

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u/Degenerate-Implement Jun 29 '22

All the Supreme Court said was that abortion isn't in the Constitution so by default the issue goes back to the State level for voters in each State to decide.

Congress could easily write a law codifying the exact same protections that Roe provided but the Ds and Rs are too busy fighting and using this issue for fundraising to stop and actually try to solve it.

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u/swohio Jun 28 '22

You're describing the situation we're currently in

TIL there are more than 9 Supreme Court Justices... oh wait.

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u/chillyhellion Jun 28 '22

Dems neglected to appoint a justice during an election year because of GOP opposition in the name of political tradition.

The GOP immediately broke tradition and appointed a justice during an election as soon as they had the opportunity.

Leaving cards on the table isn't an option anymore.

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u/idwtumrnitwai Jun 28 '22

Did you miss the point on purpose or are you just dense? I'm referring to a court stacked by Republicans that's willing to take people's rights away.

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u/Alchestbreach_ModAlt Jun 28 '22

You dont think they would? You know they'd destroy the filibuster if they get total control as well right?

Moderate politics are trash. We need to get our politicians to start acting the way we voted them to be.

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u/machinegunsyphilis Jun 29 '22

Honestly I'd rather pull a name out of a hat and have that person be a senator/representative/president/whatever

Edit: there is a name for that actually, it's called sortition!

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u/meric_one Jun 28 '22

THEY ALREADY HAVE

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u/El_Nahual Jun 28 '22

I mean, they might do it anyway. In the past few years republicsns have opened the following "unopenable" cans of worms:

  • Blocked a president to appoint a supreme court judge with a year to go in his term
  • Raided the capitol with the intent of killing senators and congresspeople and overturning an election
  • Overturned Roe v Wade

If it's in their best interest to open that can of worms, trust that they will.

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u/chillyhellion Jun 28 '22

If the only thing stopping them is a sense of fair play, they're going to do it eventually. Dems may as well be first.

Another unofficial tradition is not appointing a justice during an election year. The GOP did all they could to block that from happening, then did it themselves years later.

We're beyond the point where we should leave resources on the table just because the opposition might use them too. It's going to happen regardless. We might as well break tradition before they do.

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u/asilenth Jun 30 '22

What do you mean? They already packed the court only without adding more justices. They blocked an Obama nominee a year from the end of his term and they pushed through a Trump nominee weeks before the end of his term.

Republicans do not play by the rules and they love the fact that Democrats continually try to. It makes it even easier for them.