the federalist society spent 40 years playing chess and democrats just noticed theres a board

(Another argument for court packing, it’s just a way of fixing a bug that republicans have exploited better than democrats, but it’s still a bug)

princeton ran the numbers. 2065 if our first real shot at a liberal court. Even that is not guaranteed. Without expansion thats just the reality.

The federalist society built a pipeline, recruited judges in their 40s, played the long game with every single vacancy. Republicans never lost sight of this goal. Democrats get blocked by McConnell, let rbg stay until she dies at 87 and call it a day.

The court isnt broken in a dramatic way it’s broken in a slow boring institutional way. packing feels extreme until you zoom out and realize the extreme thing already happened.

If dems pack, republicans pack back. and they keep going back and forth until we have 30 or 40. That’s ok. 30 justifies is closer to the optimal number than 9 anyway. Eventually the packing will involve slashing as well and both parties will just take control of the Supreme Court while they are in power through constant expansion and contraction. That system is wayyyy better than the current one and that’s the worst realistic outcome.

The Supreme Court is not supposed to be static. Yes it’s supposed to be somewhat anchored to the past, keep us from doing things to extreme to fast. A check on the other branches. But our past isn’t just Republicans in power as the court would have you think. Doing nothing is the most extreme crazy thing to do. Packing the court is the only solution simply to fix a system that can so easily be controlled by one party indefinitely. Packing the court is just a hot fix to a bug.

Also, fuck Mitch McConnell. I honestly think this will be an easy sell to the people once the party actually gets on board. A conservative court from 1970 to 2070? Yeah that’s insane. Do something.

I know pisco said he woild keep refining his argument. He should also keep expanding it. Get sort of infinity stone collection of court packing arguments. IRI is not going to be able to take piscos argument to tik tok, but he could take the 100 years of conservative court argument to tik tok.

What’s another good angle to attack this? 13 justices for 13 circuits is a good marketing campaign. We need expansion because they are backlogged. Republicans won’t do it because they want the courts backlogged. They like the shadow docket stuff.