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    RIP RBG

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

    #2
    What a fighter she was.

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      #3
      https://twitter.com/kelsey_snell/status/1307101023660642306

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        #4
        Yeah let's see how that works out

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          #5
          Well, 45 days or so to see if we are completely fucked or not.

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            #6
            Shit

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              #7
              RIP

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                #8
                RIP. She was fantastic.

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                  #9
                  https://twitter.com/LaraBethWurm/status/1307121265908609026

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                    #10
                    What a piece of shit that man is.

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                      #11
                      We are well and truly fucked.

                      There is zero chance the Republicans will be principled about this. Besides, Trump is probably going to steal the election.

                      Fuck those Nazi shitbags. This country is over.

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                        #12
                        Something about this really does make it feel like the final circling of the bowl.

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                          #13
                          I want out.

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                            #14
                            Will Mitch really do this? Won't it be throwing lots of his members under the bus because it'll force them to make hugely unpopular votes?

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                              #15
                              Sure. They don’t give a fuck.

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                                #16
                                He will definitely do it.

                                The base have literally been praying for this for years.

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                                  #17
                                  This is partly her fault. She could have retired when Obama was president.

                                  I’m wondering if the election matters now. Trump can somehow dispute it to the Supreme Court and the coup is complete.

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                                    #18
                                    Corey Gardner, Susan Collins, Jodi Ernst, Martha McSally, Thom Tillis, Lindsay Graham, David Purdue and John Cornyn are going to be praying that Trump nominates someone with an absolutely faultless and uncontroversial record.

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                                      #19
                                      Yeah, that's definitely going to happen.

                                      It is going to be Amy Coney Barrett

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                                        #20
                                        Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
                                        This is partly her fault. She could have retired when Obama was president.
                                        oh, I think it’s all her fault. But hey, people got to meme her and make some money in their Etsy storefronts and she held on too her job until it was too late.

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                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
                                          Yeah, that's definitely going to happen.

                                          It is going to be Amy Coney Barrett
                                          I don’t want to know who that is.

                                          With due respect, I’m not sure the point of having so many elite universities in this country if these are the people they produce.

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                                            #22
                                            Isn't all this making if imperative that the Dems somehow flip the Senate and then put forward some Supreme Court nominations of their own, since I understand there is no law that says the number of judges has to be capped at nine?

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                                              #23
                                              Increasing the number is called packing the court. Not sure of the legality of that, but I don’t think the senate and president could just do that.

                                              But having a bigger court would help. It’s absurd that so much rides on the healthy of one person. Shorter appointments could help too or letting the House vote on it also, maybe.

                                              There are also proposals to abolish the Supreme Court. I’m not sure how that would work.

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                                                #24
                                                https://time.com/5338689/supreme-court-packing/

                                                "There’s nothing sacred about the number nine, which isn’t found in the constitution and instead comes from an 1869 act of congress. Congress can pass a law
                                                changing the court’s size at any time. That contrasts it with other potentially meritorious reform ideas, like term limits, which would require amending the constitution and thus are unlikely to succeed. And countries, with much smaller populations, have much larger high courts. In 1869, when the number nine was chosen, the U.S. was roughly a tenth of its current size, laws and government institutions were far smaller and less complex, and the volume of cases was vastly lower. Supreme Court enlargement only seems radical because we have lost touch with the fundamentals of our living, breathing constitution. The flawed debate over court-packing is an opportunity to reexamine our idea of what a Supreme Court is, and some foundational, and wrong, assumptions."

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                                                  #25
                                                  Packing the court, abolishing the electoral college, and DC and Puerto Rico statehood need to be on the table if the Dems get both houses and the White House.

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