anytime someone says "alito and thomas COULD retire or die, look at their ages" it's just. yeah. now also look at dem leadership's ages, and if they look like they're in any rush to retire
also doesn't exactly feel great that even if alito and thomas died the day after biden does inauguration, it is not at all implausible that they wouldn't repeat the obama strategy of "c'mon, be nice to us" on the GOP holding shit up
like for fuck's sake part of the reason we're in this to begin with is because leadership thought "let's just hope everything works out for us and not cause a fuss" with garland was a good idea and delaying shit till the very last minute
lord every time the "but if you had just voted for HILLARY" comes up my mind goes "dems got a senate AND house minority in 2016, leadership exactly the same regardless". even in the alternate universe where she wins, at best you get more years of "come ON, man" when GOP block all SCOTUS shit
It's been that way for years. And the Court just handed the President the means to do it: just do it. Don't wait on legislation. Appoint new justices and have the military escort them to their seats. Call it an official act as Commander-in-Chief, an emergency measure to thwart a judicial coup.
One of these days maybe center-left people will start including anarchists as people they should actually read.
"radical solution" == bog-standard liberal reformism, which historically is not even attempted when class interests are threatened
“Expand the court” was a necessary backstop against fascsism in 2021. Now that the court done for the year, it’d do nothing unless Dems can stay in power
So really the only thing it COULD do is prevent another Bush v Gore style power grab
