Five Democratic senators throw a legal bombshell at the Supreme Court with unusual brief in gun case

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60. You're assuming the political makeup is static

It's not. And the Senators in question aren't talking about this session of Congress. If the 2018 trend continues, Dems will take the Senate in 2020. Thus, McConnell's threatening NYT op end a few days ago about the filibuster. We're already seeing significant shifts in AZ and TX. VA and CO are becoming reliable blue states, while NC turns purple and perhaps even GA. The fact is, their party, or better yet, their political ideology is dying due to demographics, migration to the south and their inability to recruit significant numbers of young voters. The last vestige of power available to far right Republicans will probably be those lifetime, SCOTUS appointments. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch are in their 50's. Alito and Thomas are early 70's and Roberts is mid 60's. They're all going to be there for awhile and the only one with even a modicum of scruples about their legacy is Roberts.

The threat I'm talking about is diluting their power by adding 2 more justices and eliminating any future mischief by this crew. I don't buy the slippery slope argument since Republicanism as we know it is going the way of the Whigs. They would have to retake the White House and both houses of Congress to retaliate with additional justices and I just don't see that ever happening again.