Let’s be clear here. Confirming ACB is probably worth more than winning the election and definitely worth more than whatever marginal cost might be incurred at this point.https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1312444794900082688 …
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Replying to @PatrickRuffini
Would you trade a GOP Senate majority under Biden for ACB on the Court?
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Replying to @HotlineJosh @PatrickRuffini
The former may not be theirs to trade anyway. But yes. This is what majorities are for.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @PatrickRuffini
So that means Republicans could lose the ability to block a progressive agenda, no small cost.
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Also, raises the specter that the court gets packed and you enjoy your new justice for, like three weeks before she's joined by four new very young and impeccably left-wing colleagues.
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If the Democrats decide to burn down the American republic & the rule of law, we have that fight then. Again, they've been talking about doing that for two years. Harris is for it, Biden won't say. Nothing in my lifetime suggests that backing down will moderate the Dems' demands.
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I think the hypothetical was that it cost them Senate seats, not that it made them bad people.
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There is zero assurance that surrendering now gets you out of the court-packing fight. And if the Ds get a majority, which they may anyway, you make them pay the political price for openly destroying the rule of law in the United States.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @asymmetricinfo and
Remember when the Gang of Fourteen prevented Harry Reid from nuking the filibuster?
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Yep. Republicans cut a deal, Democrats pocketed the winnings, then changed the rules when they got a majority.
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