Saturday, September 12, 2026

Unintended Consequences

 https://x.com/floppingaces/status/2095536967794737352?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Democrats just spent an entire floor vote screaming that freezing the Supreme Court at nine justices is an unforgivable surrender of “critical power” the Framers supposedly handed them. Raskin said the quiet part out loud: locking the Court at nine would “freeze into place the political court that MAGA built.” So they killed the amendment. 212-206. Needed two-thirds. Only one Democrat even bothered to pretend, and he probably thought he was voting for a George Floyd holiday. They left the court-packing gun cocked, loaded, and sitting on the table with the safety off. Fine. Republicans should walk over, pick it up, and empty the entire magazine. Expand the Court to twenty-one. No half-measures. No “baker’s dozen” nonsense. Twenty-one seats. Trump fills every new one before the ink dries. Democrats already admitted the power exists. They already said it’s legitimate. They already proved they will use it the second they regain the majority. So use it first. Let them explain to their base why the same “critical power” is suddenly tyranny the moment the other side pulls the trigger. Let them watch their own argument get turned into a permanent conservative supermajority that lasts longer than any of them will. They loaded the gun. They left it on the table. Time to fire. (article below)"

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