• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It also means that lower courts in practically any state can issue injunctions on federal policy as well, which is going to open the floodgates for crazy. They’ve pretty much just begged everyone to vote Democrat, and get the seating of SC Justices rewritten. That, or pack the court.

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      5 months ago

      The court was already packed with activist judges appointed under suspicious or hypocritical circumstances who then lied to Congress during their confirmations about their deference to precedent on a host of issues only to the engage in a massive power grab from Congress. Subsequent action to rebalance the court is not court packing.

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        5 months ago

        The term “court packing” has a very specific meaning. It refers to adding seats to the supreme court to shift the balance.

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      5 months ago

      That, or pack the court.

      Yeah, Democrats are too married to do-nothing incrementalism to ever seriously consider doing that.