To answer Sarah Longwell's question on today's podcast

"If there were 6 liberal justices and 3 conservative justices, do you think there would be the same push for term limits?"

To bring up a concrete case, I believe that if 6 obviously, blatantly liberal justices just handed Gore the election in the year 2000 the way the conservatives did to W Bush, then I think the next time the GOP had power, in 2004 or 2008, they would immediately and drastically 'reform' the court. It wouldn't just be term limits, it would be packing, it would be impeachments, it would be absolutely unhinged shit, and it would be immediate. They wouldn't be waiting until 2024 and a string of even more blatantly terrible partisan decisions by a blatantly corrupt and ideological conservative majority to maybe think about proposing the most modest and milquetoast reforms. No, they'd be nuking the SC from orbit the first chance they got.