It's going do be a horrendous 2021 in terms of Supreme Court decisions

[Polybius]

I fully expect to lose every big one by 6-3 or 5-4. I don’t know what cases the Court will take up next year, but I hope they are minimal and not hot-button issues.

[dchill]

1. IKR. It seems 2021 could easily be...

...WORSE than 2020.

[chikita]

2. unfortunately, you're right

Immigration

Voting rights

The affordable Care act

Property rights

The federal housing financing agency

Whether a unanimous vote is required to convict

I'm heartbroken and like Hillary said oh, I've been sick to my stomach, literally.

[RockRaven]

3. Only if Dems fail to gain the Senate or insist on being losers...

If Biden wins and gets a Senate majority which is willing to reform the judiciary right away, there could be half a dozen new justices by summer....

How much pain, suffering, angst, and death amongst the public are Democrats in the Senate willing to sacrifice in order to appear more norm-respecting than the utterly norm-, rule-, and law-ignoring Repukes, and why would they do that, huh?

[onetexan]

4. +1 -K&R

[GoCubsGo]

16. Yep.

I think the Dems are done playing nice.

[Polybius]

24. I think even Joe Manchin will be on board with expanding

He seemed pissed in an interview I saw with him the other day.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. I hope they're as bad as possible. It will give our side the impetus and support necessary

to carry out the reforms that NEED to take place. It's probably the only thing that will do it.

[brooklynite]

12. The Susan Sarandon strategy?

[Crunchy Frog]

14. No.

[Polybius]

17. Bad decisions take decades to reverse

If Roe is reversed, expect it until 2040.

[Volaris]

20. Yep and since it's based on Right to Privacy, that will need to be destroyed

to undo Roe. Wont THAT be a fun world to live in for the next 20 years.

[pecosbob]

6. Or we could just begin ignoring the Supreme Court's rulings like the GOP

and work to limit their ability to intervene in the People's control of their government. If one can rule by fiat, so may another.

[Silver Gaia]

11. +1

[Totally Tunsie]

7. The impact of this Court's configuration

is going to be felt wayyyyyy beyond 2021. With a 6-3 majority, with both the frat boi and the handmaiden being quite young, the ultra-conservative rulings from this group can go on for a decade+.

If the Court is not expanded, it will be many years before a liberal decision comes down.

[ecdab]

8. Which is why the court must be expanded. The GOP packing of the courts over the last decade is...

unprecedented. To counter their power grabbing abuse of the judiciary Democrats are going to also need to be unprecedented.

[Totally Tunsie]

9. Agreed. The Dems have been "Mr. Nice Guy" for too long.

It's time they kicked some butt.

[Polybius]

19. Roberts could retire

He's not 100% healthy, and was in the hospital this year after a fall.

[Totally Tunsie]

22. If Roberts retires, we're left with a 5-3 conservative Court

for the time being until a new Justice is selected/installed. A new Liberal judge, at best, would bring it to a 5-4 Court, with Conservatives still in charge. You'd still need two more Conservatives to leave and be replaced with Liberals before rulings would swing in a Liberal direction...which could take years and years.

Roberts leaving is a start, but a small one.

Expanding the Court to 13 by adding four Justices under a Democratic president would shift the balance immediately to become a 7-6 Liberal Court.

[Polybius]

23. Gorsuch would be the new swing vote

He did cast a vote for gay rights this term. Who knows, he might even be pro-Roe. But one step at a time, 5-4 is better than 6-3. Plus we'd get our own Chief Justice.

[JCMach1]

10. Why we go to 13

[Polybius]

18. That's why the Senate is so important

We’ll probably have 53 Democrats after the election.

[David__77]

13. It points to the need to win elections.

There are numerous ways to increase voting and abortion access by winning state and federal elections.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. That's harder to do with an SC that cements partisan voter suppression in place, and

and other policies that are designed to maintain minority rule in spite of how people vote.

[BainsBane]

21. It's going to be a horrendous generation

elections have consequences. The anti-Hillary people gave us this SCOTUS, which will do exactly what they wanted.