Remember that DOJ sought expedited review of this issue from the Court last year (skipping the circuit courts). They refused and punted it to the DC Circuit, which took months; then dilly dallied all this time after the DC Circuit’s decision, before finally issuing a grant. It’s pretty transparent.
Honestly the best chance we had was in 2021 when Dems still controlled Congress - expel the legislators who voted against certifying the election from Congress, use the rump majorities to pass court reform/expansion. bsky.app/profile/mara...
That would've been an unprecedented and extreme manuever and basically a counter-coup but as I said at the time, waiting longer to take a step like that will make the remaining options to fix things shrink and grow even less appealing.
Instead of a reckoning with how bad we are screwed by the ever-tightening vice of illegitimate GOP power grabs, we just got denial, and a plan of "maybe the Dems can just pull an inside straight in every single election going forward and never lose power again" and folks, it's not going great!
I maintain that the most important election of my lifetime was in 2000 when it was shown that the Supreme Court can appoint a president. And I wasn’t even old enough to vote!
