• Melllvar
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    1 month ago

    That doesn’t seem like a reasonable or well thought-out idea.

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      I’m open to other ideas. But, we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas won’t cut it with fascism looming. Act in a utilitarian manner, and sort out the deficiencies later.

      Why not? As an originalist constitutionalists, conservatives should laud a president who reduces the court back to its Constitutionally mandated 6 justices.

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        1 month ago

        Point of order: the Constitution doesn’t set the number of justices, it gives that power to Congress.

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          Somehow the writers of that Wikipedia article managed to fit that information into the first sentence.