re: The court packing narrative is aggravating.

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Court packing is as legal as what the republicans are doing.

It is a dangerous precedent and bad for the country but I would Argue ramming through a justice is as well.

One of those “elections have consequences”

Of course wouldn’t the solution be that when the republicans have the votes to shrink the court and ditch the junior justices?

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I’m not saying it’s illegal. I’m saying it’s detrimental to the Union. Legally with enough support we could even dissolve the constitution. But I think it’d be detrimental. It’s unstable. And to me that level of instability is dangerous and hasn’t been done in over a hundred plus years if not more. At least since the 1800s right?

Secondly they aren’t ramming in anything. They’ve pointed out multiple different instances of justices being confirmed in about as much time and several in much less time. This woman is qualified. She isn’t hiding anything and so far they have found nothing incriminating against her other than her own views that they don’t like. To say this process is a sham is dishonest. There’s nothing wrong with how they’ve handled nominating and advising and consenting on ACB.

As for removing justices in the same fashion as they are added the constitution forbids it. They can’t add justices via law then strip those away via the same form of legislation. The constitution says they’re there for life. It would take an amendment to remove them once they’re confirmed. The republicans only recourse would be to further stack the court and from there it only furthers the degradation of the court.