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TrollBuster9090

(5,953 posts)
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 09:43 PM Sep 2020

RED LINE: Confirm a Justice During A Lame Duck Session, And We'll Stack The Court When We're In.

Not a threat. A simple quid pro quo warning. If Republicans confirm a SCOTUS Justice during a lame duck session after the election, Democrats are free to stack the SCOTUS by adding THREE MORE Justices. Don't like that idea? GOOD! Then just don't do what YOU'RE planning to do. It's that simple.

No more playing by Marquis of Queensbury boxing rules while the opposition is knee-capping us with a baseball bat with nails in it.

If you're gonna fight dirty, so can we. As follows:

1. If you appoint another SCOTUS Justice during a lame duck, we'll add three more Justices to the SCOTUS after we're sworn in.

2. If you gerrymander the House districts, f--ck with the USPS, and f--ck with the Census; we'll make Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. into STATES. That's four more Democratic Senators against your 50 gerrymandered House Representatives.


That's what's on the table.

(R.I.P. RBG. Thank you for hanging on so long, for our benefit. We owe you a debt of gratitude.)
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RED LINE: Confirm a Justice During A Lame Duck Session, And We'll Stack The Court When We're In. (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 Sep 2020 OP
Biden has conirmed this jorgevlorgan Sep 2020 #1
Exactly! MatthewG. Sep 2020 #2
Not much of a threat FBaggins Sep 2020 #3

MatthewG.

(362 posts)
2. Exactly!
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 09:49 PM
Sep 2020

Biden and every future Democratic contender needs to say that if this gets rammed through, they’ll expand the court as soon as they get a Democratic Senate.

This needs to be official party line. NOW. Make it a normative and mainstream Position through repetition.

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