• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    We called for this on day 1 of Biden’s first term…

    He chose to put a bipartisan committee in charge of seeing if we should just let the corrupt Republican SC stay in power, and the committee waited two years till dems didnt have the numbers to fix anything, before recommending Dems don’t fix anything.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/biden-support-expanding-supreme-court-white-house/story?id=85703773

    The aristocrats! /s

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      3 months ago

      As long as the Dems have less than 60 votes in the Senate, and aren’t willing to ditch the fucking filibuster, there’s literally nothing they can do.

      You can’t reform the court without a Constitutional Amendment since the operation and formation of the court is defined by the Constitution.

      So, 2/3rds vote in the House, 2/3rds vote in the Senate, ratification by the States.

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        3 months ago

        and aren’t willing to ditch the fucking filibuster, there’s literally nothing they can do.

        That’s the rub.

        We have things we can do, but party leadership don’t want to do it.

        So when they say they can’t do anything, things like “get rid of the filibuster” come up. And they party has to acknowledge that would work…

        They’re just not willing to do it.

        Which when that comes back to voters, makes them less likely to vote. Because they feel like even when we have the numbers, it won’t change anything because party leadership wants to have the fight against fascism with at least one hand tied behind their back out of an outdated sense of honor.

        We’re fucking fighting fascism bro.

        What matters is winning.