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    1. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

      I know it is the baseball crank, but this is a great example of deceptive argumentation through eliding the details and it is worth unpacking.pic.twitter.com/milYID5JIu

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    2. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

      So the argument is that “court packing” is so politically fraught that it can fracture a polity and produce the conditions for violent conflict.

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    3. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

      To support that, crankball cites the court packing that preceded the Civil War, and references the highly divisive decision in Dred Scott. The logic train is straightforward: Previous presidents packed the court to bolster slavery and it backfired.

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    4. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

      But wait! What are these instances of “ideological court packing” cited by brankball case? First, the baseline. The 1789 Judiciary Act established a 6-member Supreme Court.

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    5. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

      In 1801, the outgoing Adams administration and its allies in Congress shrank the Court to 5 members, to preserve a Federalist majority. In 1802, Jefferson and his Democratic-Republicans restored it to 6.

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    6. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

      In 1807, the Jeffersonians added an additional seat to accommodate a new judicial circuit in the frontier states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio.

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    7. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

      In 1837, under a lame duck Andrew Jackson, Congress created two new circuits and added two additional seats, a practical and political maneuver. Dred Scott is decided 20 years later, a 7-2 decision. By then, there were only 2 Jackson nominees on the Court.

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      b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

      Now, mr. craseball gets one thing right: Dred Scott set the stage for the Civil War. But his facts about “court packing” are...wrong.

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        2. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

          It is abusing terms to call pre-1863 additions “ideological court-packing” and there is no relationship between those expansions and the tensions that produced war.

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        3. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

          Was the Supreme Court friendly toward the interests of slaveholders? Yes! But so was virtually every president and nearly half of Congress between 1801 and 1860. You have to twist American history into knots to tie the events of 1850 to 1860 to *court-packing*.

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        4. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 18 Mar 2019

          But if you don’t know any of this, the crank’s argument looks plausible! Which makes it a good example of misleading through eliding key details.

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