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They not even hiding it now. They control the court, so they control the law.
This is one issue where I get angry with the democrats. They could have stacked the courts a long ass time ago and prevented shit like this.
When? They pushed through candidates when they could, but they had to change the Senate rules during the Obama administration just to end Republican filibusters on non-controversial nominees. The news was all over both the backlog of empty seats and the need for Democrats to change the rules just to get what nominees they could past Republicans.
And of course, that ended once Republicans took the Senate.
Bad idea but fun to fantasize about: use some of those patriot act powers I assume exist to drag Republican Congress people off to detention centers because they're enemy combatants. Suddenly Democratic super majority, fewer traitors in government, and an unbearably bad precedent set for the next time Republicans have power.
On the other hand, trump is probably going to try that kind of thing anyway.
Correct. According to Project 2025, they'll use an old provision in the Constitution to justify using the military to round up anyone who they deem a dissenter. I think there's a later law that prohibits the deployment of troops on American soil, but they're confident they'll have the courts on their side.
Found it.
Deploying the military on home soil isn’t new
They did it for the Rodney King riots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
It's one thing to deploy it as a response to an emergency. It's another to plan ahead of time to use it to stage a coup.
Staging an emergency isn’t that hard, and the courts are on their side
That's why they're planning it. There's plenty of law and precedent against it, but they know all they need is the thinnest veneer of an excuse to get their partisan justices to rule in their favor.
They tried changing the rules, but were blocked by Manchin and Sinema. Were you asleep at the time?
The Democratic Party's ability to legislate wass brought to its knees by an administrative staffer (the parliamentarian) and enshrined themselves to be hamstrung by the filibuster.
Republicans fired the last parliamentarian that threw up a roadblock and they threw out the filibuster just for themselves to install the SCOTUS that exists now.
The rules could have always been changed and power could always have been leveraged and exercised. It is a conscious choice not to.
You really super duper don't want to get rid of the filibuster because it's the only thing preventing Republicans from ranking through all kinds of crazy shit
They currently control the house, and while they'll probably lose it in '24, they will absolutely control it (and almost certainly the Senate) again some day.
If they keep the fillibuster, they should make it so you have to keep talking. Actually get up there and talk for 20 hours if you hate the bill so much.
I'd absolutely love that, personally.
The GOP will dumpster the filibuster, like they have, the moment they have the votes. The remaining effect being it only serves as a self imposed limitation by the Democratic Party.
The GOPs lack of a majority is what prevents them from passing crazy shit. The Democrats not passing anything when they have the votes, the power, or the chance is one of the largest factors in enabling the GOP into the majority.
They've never done this
This flies in the face of concurrent years of dem wins in the house/senate.
Mitch in 2017 for Gorsuch.
That wasn't a fillibuster. Republicans controlled the Senate
They didn't have the votes to beat a filibuster, so the rules were changed to lower the vote threshold to advance the SCOTUS nomination. Senate control is what allowed them to make the rule change, hence it being on then for changing the rule in 2017.
I totally thought you were talking about garland. Wow. Point conceded on that.
oh right I keep forgetting about that part
Yup. Same question.
I don't really expect an answer.