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speak easy

(12,595 posts) Sun Jun 26, 2022, 07:34 PM Jun 2022

The next time the GOP has the House, the Senate and the Oval Office [View all]

Last edited Sun Jun 26, 2022, 10:25 PM - Edit history (2)

they will -

(1st order of business) Nuke the filibuster.
2. Expand the Supreme Court to 13
3. Nominate enough Thomas-Barrett fanatics to kill Griswold via Obergefell.

This is why Democrats must strike first, as soon as we have the votes. IMO, a 10-3 'conservative' majority , will prove irresistible to Republicans.

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The next time the GOP has the House, the Senate and the Oval Office [View all] speak easy Jun 2022 OP

YES!!! A thousand times YES! Phoenix61 Jun 2022 #1

Democrats Will Need At Least 55 Democratic Senators For Any Chance At Nuking Filibuster SoCalDavidS Jun 2022 #2

Yes. speak easy Jun 2022 #3

The 1st two years of the Trump presidency they had the trifecta and did not do any of kelly1mm Jun 2022 #4

It is a worse case scenario. speak easy Jun 2022 #6

MAGA can nuke the filibuster, pass laws then vote the filibuster back in place with a simple ... uponit7771 Jun 2022 #25

I don't know. We took first try on judges and it did very little for us jimfields33 Jun 2022 #5

It depends on how much Griswold is worth protecting. speak easy Jun 2022 #7

Is there a lawsuit? jimfields33 Jun 2022 #9

Correct! Too few remember it was Senator Reid that started the 'carveouts' for the filibuster kelly1mm Jun 2022 #11

And the door is now open speak easy Jun 2022 #14

I remember Reid did such due to MAGA abuse of filibuster **FIRST**. So they abused filibuster ... uponit7771 Jun 2022 #26

Any use of the filibuster is 'abuse'. How would using the filibuster not be abuse? The R's kelly1mm Jun 2022 #27

I disagree that all or any use of filibuster is abuse uponit7771 Jun 2022 #28

So your argument is which side uses it more is who is abusing it? kelly1mm Jun 2022 #29

No, its which side escalates the abuse of it and it was ***NOT*** democrats, we both know this. uponit7771 Jun 2022 #30

This is why it astounds me at how few people vote npk Jun 2022 #8

NEXT: We find that the First Amendment doesn't say "separation between church and state" dalton99a Jun 2022 #10

Nowhere in the 1st amendment does it have your quoted language. The separation of kelly1mm Jun 2022 #24

K&R LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #12

You know when? usonian Jun 2022 #13

Are there state legislatures eager to ban contraception? Frasier Balzov Jun 2022 #15

Yes. Griswold will be found to be bad law speak easy Jun 2022 #18

This. mn9driver Jun 2022 #16

Instead of legislation there will be non-stop investigations and probably jailing of Democratic jalan48 Jun 2022 #17

I actually don't think Mitch McConnell would nuke the filibuster In It to Win It Jun 2022 #19

for a 10-3 'conservative' court speak easy Jun 2022 #20

But they have a 6-3 court doing that for them already In It to Win It Jun 2022 #21

They don't have the votes to kill Obergefell speak easy Jun 2022 #23

This message was self-deleted by its author speak easy Jun 2022 #22