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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Sep 2020

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted The Washington Post

      "If you play by the rules and win, we will change the rules."https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1307329124541894657 …

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      The Washington PostVerified account @washingtonpost
      Perspective: If McConnell pushes through a nominee, President Biden should pack the court https://wapo.st/3cfU1lf 
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    2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 19 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Go ahead and try to replace a justice six weeks before your party loses the presidency and the senate. Claim you are “playing by the rules.” You have a counter-majority movement buttressed by three (!) counter majority institutions. If you do this, you will reap the whirlwind.

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    3. Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 19 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      Yeah, I mean this is reifying the "rules" stacked upon "rules" that lose their justification at each juncture.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Sep 2020
      Replying to @JoshuaMZeitz @AstorAaron @yeselson

      There's a reason why the system rejected nakedly ideological Court-packing the one time it was tried, even at the height of one-party rule during a peak era for authoritarian government around the world.

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        1. Tom Morrissey‏ @tom_steely 19 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @JoshuaMZeitz and

          Dan, is your assessment that the left won't dare try? Or that a GOP minority could keep this from happening?

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        2. Jakvar Austin‏ @JakvarAustin 19 Sep 2020
          Replying to @JoshuaMZeitz @baseballcrank and

          Precisely. Also people forget that Abe Lincoln packed the court and then the R congress reduced the number to 7 under A Johnson. Changing the number of justices is fully contemplated by the constitution itself in that it left this detail to congress.

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        2. Jakvar Austin‏ @JakvarAustin 19 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @JoshuaMZeitz and

          Lincoln added a seat in 1863; the Republican Congress, also for naked political reasons, reduced the court to 7 justices. It’s a matter of statute; it’s fully within the law and our system to change the number of justices. And it will be fully justified if McConnell pulls this

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        1. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 19 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @JoshuaMZeitz @AstorAaron

          One party rule then was, in fact, *not* one party rule as we understand it today—nor, therefore, was partisanship the same. There were, effectively, three parties, including the segregationist Democrats. So that power was undercut.

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        2. Readjuster‏ @VAReadjuster89 19 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @JoshuaMZeitz and

          1. Right now is the new “peak era” of autortian rule around the world, & its not Dems doing. 2. Democrats of the 1930’s as now, were too concerned about norms. When now, we have a conservative party that expressly applies said norms only when they objectively suit them.

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        3. Readjuster‏ @VAReadjuster89 19 Sep 2020
          Replying to @VAReadjuster89 @baseballcrank and

          What’s interesting is if you put today’s party alinement on 1930’s politics, most of the people opposing FDR’s court packing would not be ij his party now. They’d be with Mitch and Donnie, cheering on selective enforcement to own the libs.

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