The number of justices has changed 6 times.
Itâs been nine for the last 150 years. Before that it got up to ten once. Roosevelt wanted 15. Democrats are talking about increasing it to 13. Thereâs no precedent for that.
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Just go ahead and admit youâre wrong itâs never gotten past the talking point, rather than trying to pretend you were talking no precedent for a specific number. 
150 years of convention is precedent. Expanding the Court to 13 justices is unprecedented.
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150 years is a long time.
How long has it been since a Senate Majority Leader refused to even hold a hearing on a presidential nominee?
Democrats should use their control of Congress and the White House to pass a law requiring timely confirmation hearings of presidential nominees. They should follow that up with a Constitutional amendment.
Why would they take away a low hanging fruit of contention?
Thereâs no way thatâd be low hanging fruit, or i doubt it would pass.
Reducing a major cause of gridlock in Washington would be a much better use of their time in power than turning the Supreme Court into a political circus.
You mean rather than joining the circus thatâs already there.
The argument is low hanging fruit. Thatâs what I meant.
Better do it fast.
Abortion pills via mail. Thanks FDA for having our best interest at heart. Canât wait until TikTok pranks pregnant moms.
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The possibility of women being prosecuted for having an abortion or for ordering pills online from a pharmacy â anywhere â is horrific. No one should have to risk incarceration for exercising control over their own bodies. But thatâs the world we are headed into if Roe vs. Wade is overturned.
Horrific and most likely hyperbolic.
Did they really need this law? How many botched abortion babies lived and then were let die? Sounds like a horror movie.
Well, when you have a governor of Virginia letting you know his plan on how to kill a baby after it was born, I guess maybe?
âWe have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which weâve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators,â she said.
Rhetorical hyperbole? 
It doesnât matterâŚshe isnât talking about the law at allâŚjust as she avoids the subject on the abortion law case.
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I changed the thread title to simply whatâs going on bc, I donât wanna have eleventy threads on SCOTUS. 