If Senate Republicans steal another Supreme Court seat, Democrats absolutely must expand the court [View all]

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Whether McConnell can line up all the votes he needs to confirm Trump's nominee remains to be seen. But the bottom line is, there's simply no way a Supreme Court packed with conservative ideologues can coexist with an overwhelmingly diverse and increasingly liberal American public. It simply cannot stand.

If Republicans refuse to follow their own precedent about not filling a Supreme Court seat in a presidential election year, as they appear poised to do, Democrats will have no choice but to expand the court as soon as they are granted the power to do so by the American people.

That could be as soon as November with the potential elevation of former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris to the White House and Democrats reclaiming the Senate majority. As I wrote following the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the high court: "Our elected leaders are the recourse. They have to and can serve as a check on a Supreme Court that’s severed from prevailing public opinion in the same way President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s court-packing threat to a right-leaning Supreme Court did in 1937. Electoral redress isn’t a sure bet, but it’s a fair prospect when the vast majority of Americans agree on the issues, see the threat that is posed to the foundations of our democracy, and engage in the hard work of generational change.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/18/1978632/-If-Republicans-fill-Ginsburg-s-seat-a-President-Biden-would-have-no-choice-but-to-expand-the-court

I think it's important that this discussion be brought into the light. Republicans need to know that Democrats can and will fight back against McConnell and his fascism.