Planned Parenthood wants to pack the court

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It is time to expand the court

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In an interview Sunday with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, the group’s CEO and president, Alexis McGill Johnson, said it’s “incredibly important now that we need to see expanded courts, from lower courts all the way up to the Supreme Court.”

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,,,,Despite the drastic impact it could have on the law, adding seats to the Supreme Court is theoretically straightforward. The number of justices can be changed with legislation, and doesn't require a constitutional amendment. But even if the Democratic Senate majority got on board with such legislation, it would obviously face massive opposition in the Republican-controlled House. Plus, President Joe Biden has opposed the move.....

Underscoring the absurdity of how slight changes in court personnel can upend the law, the paper's authors noted that, had Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retired before 2015, Merrick Garland been confirmed in 2016, or Justice Amy Coney Barrett not been confirmed in 2020, “the median outcome is that Democratic-leaning justices would comprise a majority on the Supreme Court for the first time in 2029 and they would control a majority of the Court for about half of the next century.”

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,,,Following the original Roe decision, it took decades for the GOP to build the Dobbs court. Now it could take as long to topple it.

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1. Democrats are introducing the Judiciary Act to expand the Supreme Court

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[Hekate]

2. Works for me

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3. Where are they getting the 2065 number from?

No one will be on the Court in 2065 that's there now.

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4. If we get the majority next election will that be enough or do we have to have some super majority?