Sunny Moraine: So often see arguments against SCOTUS expansion like “but then Republicans will just add even more!” And I’m like, cool, then we come right out the gate with like 30 new Justices Make it absurdly big. I’m with Elie Mystal on this one: MORE FROGS AND DOGS AND BEARS AND CHICKENS AND WHATEVER

So often see arguments against SCOTUS expansion like “but then Republicans will just add even more!” And I’m like, cool, then we come right out the gate with like 30 new Justices Make it absurdly big. I’m with Elie Mystal on this one: MORE FROGS AND DOGS AND BEARS AND CHICKENS AND WHATEVER

I think this is the fundamental asymmetry underlying every aspect of the conflict between the parties; you see it in the Senate, in gerrymandering, in the use of executive power I don't want King Biden either, but it's long past time to make the GOP afraid of the consequences of endless escalation

If we’re gonna destroy norms, then let’s actually destroy some norms. Let’s get crazy, let’s have some FUN with it for Christ’s sake

I don’t even think it’s crazy. The end result would be to dilute each justice’s power until any individual justice being replaced wouldn’t be a national crisis. Having a hundred supreme court justices would actually make the country more stable!

THAT’S THE THING, it’s actually a very reasonable thing to do! The fact that it’s a sharp departure from norms doesn’t make it unreasonable at all

At an absolute minimum, there should be 13 so each circuit has a justice assigned just to that circuit, instead of Roberts having three (4th, DC, and Fed) and Alito (3rd and 5th) and Kavanaugh (6th and 8th) each having two.

ain't no rule says a dog can't be a Supreme Court justice

All of them. Replace them all with dogs.

This would be a significant improvement in every way If people complain it’s too partisan, make one of them a cat.

Bluesky needs an automatic tag for "John Oliver already did it" 😀

Since that came from his post where he did it and all.

Except Gorsuch is a lobster and Kavanaugh is Gritty, although since Gritty was eventually adopted by the left I notice John Oliver hasn’t returned to this meme.

Not just a good boy; a supreme boy.

The moment Commander Biden has been waiting for his whole life.

Supreme Bud.

The Air Bud Interpretation of Supreme Court unimpeachability

We’ve already had a Hand and a Burger

Sounds ruff.

@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social in the bullpen warming up

Bud, Your Honor

I nominate my kitty. She would probably really dig splitting babies, tbh.

What about the specific dogs that kept biting secret service agents?

Supreme Court Justice Odie can't be any worse than Sammy Alito.

Plenty of lapdogs on the Court already.

We are so far past "gosh, what if the Republicans do something extreme in retaliation?" when they have just hand-written an invitation to Donald Trump specifically to go ahead and end the republic.

I want to shake liberals when they say "if we do ___, they can do it to us" -- my brothers and sisters, they're doing it anyway. They do not share your civility politics. They are playing for keeps

Expansion *now* dilutes the effects of putative future tit-for-tat expansions. We have an opportunity for immense first mover advantage.

💯 If only Dems could find it in themselves to stop playing eternal defense

Let’s keep expanding the court until every single American is on the court

This is kind of a flavor of why I support the concept of demarchy. Basically government by jury duty.

Oooo I like that concept!!

Right? Even a 41 member court with 15 additional FedSoc-approved judges is gonna find it hard to get 21 votes in favor of anything explicit.

Elie is a voice I really miss on here. Love him.

one new justice should be 3 Muppets in a black robe, or what the hell are we even doing

Exactly. And you might as well start big, too. Don't just add 3. Add 301.

SWARM OF BEES And each one gets a vote

I feel like eventually expanding the supreme court to every living human being is, at the end of the day, more politically viable than trusting Americans to never elect anybody right wing until the end of time

SCOTUS-NG: 37 justices, cert petitions decided by random panel of 7, cases heard by random panel of 9 not on cert panel, 5-4 decisions can be appealed to another random panel of 13, supermajority of 9 required to overturn original decision. Huge improvement.

And 39 is a multiple of 13, so you can put them all on Circuit rotations.

We need to give them both the House and Senate to push the nominations through.

Elie was my fave follow at the old place

i like how they don’t even consider that after expanding the supreme court, they could reform it. isn’t that what they’re notionally supposed to be for, reform?

13 circuits. 39 justices. Panels at random. 26 year terms. I’m not afraid of 13.

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