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3. They were chosen and approved for that difference.

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:40 AM

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That is why Dems were warned.

However, President Joe Biden doesn't seem to be budging, despite attempts to persuade him from people like Laurence Tribe, renowned legal expert and professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.

"I've tried to persuade the president that he at least shouldn't pour cold water on it, but he won't go that far, he keeps saying that he's against ending the filibuster and against expanding the court," Tribe told Jim Braude on Greater Boston.

"There's no good reason for the president to be deflating the energy, the possibility of court expansion helps to generate," Tribe said.

Retired Federal Judge Nancy Gertner said the recent Supreme Court decisions were a "power grab."
https://www.wgbh.org/news/2022-06-30/legal-scholar-larry-tribe-is-trying-to-convince-joe-biden-to-expand-the-court

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What they're doing is preparing their ruling to be overturned, since faulty legal reasoning is grounds for Baitball Blogger Friday #2

They were chosen and approved for that difference. Passages Friday #3

I see it as being even worse: MLWR Friday #4

I don't want to read that progressoid Friday #5

6-3 super majority for the foreseeable future UNLESS Democrats campaign on and implement changes. Moostache Friday #6

Post Civil War, the GOP held power a long time bucolic_frolic Friday #8

Taking back the House is quite do-able in '26 Wednesdays Friday #11

If this is true, if it is a lost cause...then start planning for the partition now. Moostache Monday #12

"In other words, the dissents are screaming that the old game of law is no more." OldBaldy1701E Friday #7

Thanks for posting this. annielion Friday #9

"The Court, and not just a lawless administration, is the problem here." MayReasonRule Friday #10