cgmw wrote:I'm still lost on how the new 2 would be appointed by liberals. I suppose you're saying the expansion should happen while Dems control the House & Senate? I mean, what's stopping Republicans from expanding it to 11, 15, 101 or 1001 lifetime appointments right now while they control both houses?
The first two appointments would happen once we have a Democratic Senate, House, and President. There's nothing to stop the Republicans from adding two more Justices - and then us adding an additional two later, and so forth - except perhaps the long-term demographic tilt of the country, which makes it increasingly less likely that Republicans will be able to deploy the same old loathsome Southern Strategy playbook and supply-side voodoo and win elections going forward.
But there is inherent risk in anything you do. There is risk in allowing a reactionary court to allow religious conservatives to impose their 100% subjective ideology on a freethinking people. There is risk in allowing oligarchs to buy our politicians as if they were streetwalkers selling their wares.
There is risk everywhere.
The best that you could hope for is that at the end of a period of moderate political instability, we can come to a new understanding as to why the Courts need to remain nonpartisan, as much as it is humanly possible.
