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
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.
i need people to understand that expanding the court is such a heavy political lift that it basically has not been done since the civil war when there was literally no opposition to it in congress.
People will yell at Democrats for not doing things with the slimmest majorities then commit to never voting in order to change those majorities because "it doesn't matter"
They never want power, they just want to endlessly critique it
But then you see the MN DFL do lots of things with a one-vote senate majority... and suddenly the slimmest majority seems like not a great reason for not even trying to do symbolic, message-oriented things.
Altering the makeup of the supreme court is not symbolic or message oriented things
If voters put 60 Democrats in the Senate, then the politics of that change real quick vs 50 or 51
Democrats got a decent amount done in Biden's first 2 years with a tiny majority, but it certainly didn't help they they were limited by Manchin and Sinema.
