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Didn't he literally say he would take vengeance on all his political opponents day one? Then the Supreme Court gave him absolute immunity?

It is weird that they dicked around for 4 years on this, though.

Still, vote blue, your vassals beg you (Australian here).

Yep, exactly. I remember seeing many warnings in 2021-22 saying that then was the right time to pack the courts. Establishment Dems twiddled their thumbs while insisting that everyone everywhere needs to follow proper decorum and procedure. And now look what happened with the string of terrible Supreme Court decisions.

He never had the chance, Manchin was pretty outspoken about his opposition to it.

Only if the ranking is applied at the state level AND the national level. I'm not going to throw away my vote or my delegate's vote.

There’s nothing in the constitution that says dogs can't play basketball.

This is hilarious. I'm sure someone with more bandwidth than me can point out a dozen reasons why this is bad, but fuck if it isn't funny and appealing.

I can't imagine how he possibly will. R is happy just the way things are.

Yeah, why would you try to actually solve a problem instead of just applying a band-aid that the next administration can rip of again (by incresing the size of the court again)?

That's the real problem, but too many people here and elsewhere are unaware of the limitations on how the legislative process works. Anything like this is pretty much DOA and purely ceremonial. I'm happy for all of the positive things Biden has been able to get done in spite of such gridlock, but amendment level change in this country is just not at all possible right now.

Why doesn't he just bypass congress and call it an official act?

Not that it will get passed now, but if he did that 2 years ago, everyone would be saying that there isn’t any good indication these things are truly a huge issue. Now that it is out that they are taking bribes, working directly in conflicts of interests, and clearly doing things in contradiction to duty, there is a much stronger case.

Making a change with the fundamental design of the of the separation of powers will always be, nearly, impossible, and completely so without strong demonstration of why they need to be changed.

What a nice thought, too bad Biden didn’t do anything over two years ago when it would have actually mattered.

He could not have. Nor was he himself convinced of the need, and for good reason, until the SC's presidential immunity ruling and the more recent evidence of their corruption. I think Laurence Tribe is a good person to get context from, and unless I'm mistaken he has never, before now, called for SC reform despite having written entire books on it. IOW, this is all kind of new.

This might be of interest: How the US supreme court shredded the constitution and what can be done to repair it

Requires an act of congress and elimination of the filibuster. Not possible with the current makeup of the Senate. Need more blue senators, which is hard because California gets the same number of Senators as North Dakota, which has the same population as a small apartment complex in LA.

So we need record turnout for that. Vote.

Incrementalists don't do that.