on the one hand, SCOTUS has ignored precedent, taken away rights, consolidated their own power and declared Donald Trump a special boy who can do all the crime he wants, but on the other hand, we must respect our sacred norms
🤬🤬🤬🤬 This sentiment, however, does not seem to be what a large part of his base want to hear, as many have expressed their dismay over his lack of action. l.smartnews.com/p-WSfZ8/5LupIB#SleepyJoe
He's waiting to see what other goofy shit they're gonna let him get away with & THEN get rid of them. & he can't do that if people keep (says through teeth) puttin' salt in his kool-aid.
The sacred norms including breaking the original equality between number of Circuits and number of Justices.
5 circuits = 5 Justices at the outset, and the "9 Justices" at present was originally *because* at that time, there were 9 circuits..
Oh Jesus H. Christ. I understood reticence about this earlier and maybe sort of could have been persuaded by those arguments a few years ago.
But if these aren't desperate times now, I don't know what are.