jwilkerson wrote:
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... Well what are the actual lines in the Constitution which make this possible? ...
Are you not a scholar ?

I will demonstrate the process ...

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Art I (legislative), sec 8, para 18 gives congress general legislative powers ...
Art III (judicial) no where specifies the number of justices that will comprise the court.
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The judicial act (passed by congress) in 1789 specified six justices.
In the 19C Congress changed the number of justices on the court several times ... in 1869 the number was set to 9 where it remains today.
So the precedent that the Constitution gives the congress the power to set the number of justices is clearly established and has never been challenged.
That said, sitting in your capitol and voting on changing the number ... is a different action from sending official legal documents to the court ... threatening them with action if they do not vote the way you desire ... two very different behaviors in my book. And I would suspect every member of the court is furious with the overt attempt at judicial interference on the part of those senators. Whether they keep their public mouths shut about it or not.
Interesting. I was vaguely aware of this but it isn't something I've lost sleep over
I figure: as long as there IS a SCOTUS and it is AT LEAST 6 judges, AND its purview over the society reflect that which was intended at the outset of the country the number itself is, over the long term, relatively moot with respect to partisanism. Now obviously, in the short term, it could sway the court in one direction or another for many years. But honestly: who cares? They are NOT going to be able to "take our guns" (you know that as well as I do), and they are NOT going to be able to pull off an actual coup. The cops and military will never go along with it, well . . . at least not in large fractions.
Are the New Totalitarian Tribalists loathsome? Despicable? Excoriable? Detestable? Scarcely worthy of the rights and privileges of American citizenship? Worthy of hearty criticism, rebuke and public shaming!? YES! to all.
Are they a "serious" threat to the country? Don't think so.
Hildabeast was the high tide mark for the NTT Revolution; there is no fucking way ~63+ million voters are gonna roll over at this point, and my guess is that ~63 is now tipping up around 70+ millions!
A wounded animal always fights most fiercely just before it dies, right!?