Sure. I’ll stick with the period I know. When Harrison nominated Howell Jackson, he picked a Dem that would have to meet muster with the Dem Senate. Without opposite Party consent, he would have not been successful. N.b. Harrison was part of the dominant coalition of the era.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1285989271283748864 …
The Senate is within its rights - as a matter of rules & power - in doing whatever a majority wants. Historically, power is constrained by norms. Here, the historical norm when the branches are opposed is to run out the last year, but when they are united, it is not.
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Well, I suspect you’re going to see a court packing movement that will look more like Radical Republicans than New Dealers if they do it. I don’t disagree— they can do whatever they want— but that, of course, isn’t what people are really debating I don’t think.
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Democrats have been openly talking about that for a while anyway. The point is that historical precedent does not support either their complaints or their proposals.
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