@jiminnh.bsky.social: Step 1: Democrats need 60 seats in the Senate, a majority in the House, and the Presidency. We can discuss step 2 after step 1 is completed.

alito is playing in our faces because he knows there’s nothing we can do about it and he has total contempt for the idea that he might be accountable for anything he does

Love the Democrats ruling out ever doing anything about it. Heck of an opposition party

Honestly asking: what are their options? They can impeach justices, right?

Impeachment starts in the House, so that's right out, at the moment. However, the Senate Judiciary could hold hearings. Use them as a means to move public opinion and raise the salience of this issue.

They've ruled out expanding the court, which is the only realistic way to reduce the conservative power, so the worst they can do are public scoldings.

Step 1: Democrats need 60 seats in the Senate, a majority in the House, and the Presidency. We can discuss step 2 after step 1 is completed.

Ds need 51 non-Manchin, non-Sinema seats in the Senate and a willingness to abolish the filibuster. (Of course, that's ignoring the other probably at-least-half-dozen Senate Ds that are waiting in the wings to assume Manchin's and Sinema's mantle) And the other stuff, too.

True re: the 51 + willingness.

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