Elizabeth Warren Just Offered Terrifying Proof Republicans Have Given Up on Democracy

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12. You bring up an interesting question.

Let's suppose HRC had won the election. And then Democrats had taken back the Senate, which they would have had it not been for the last minute Comey intervention. And then Schumer went nuclear when they tried to filibuster nominees to the Supreme Court. Finally, we assume that HRC would have gotten three appointments in her first two years, when RBG and Breyer retired.

Then in 2019 the Supreme Court issues a series of "liberal" rulings like blocking voter suppression methods, ending Citizens United and not allowing Roe vs. Wade to be gutted.

Is there any doubt that a President Scott Walker, if elected in 2020, would want to add new justices to the court? The Republicans would never tolerate a long-term Democratic majority on the high court. John McCain had already alluded to that before the election.

So haven't we already reached the point where the GOP's position is that composition of the court changes when one party takes control of the White House and both houses of Congress? And if we have then is it really reasonable to only allow that when one party is in charge, but not the other?