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Absolutely, it does. Yours, your friends’ lives, your family members‘ lives, anyone you care about, anyone you know. There are a lot of lives in the balance right now. So yes. Go out there and VOTE like your life DOES depend on it. And keep doing that for every election for the rest of your life.

Alright, the median voter has spoken. Can’t wait for the popularists to demand this… any day now, I’m sure.

That probably includes quite a few MAGA who want the court expanded right now so SCOTUS stops ruling against Dear Leader altogether.

Or just add 2 states, le voila, 2 birds with 1 stone. I expect Alito and Thomas to retire post election so dilution will be needed. Heckuva legacy, John Roberts.

🙏🙏🙏🙏

Democrats can pass an enforceable Code of Ethics in Jan, 2027. They just need to threathen to DEUND SCOTUS if they don't comply. Justices don't have a constitutional right to have thier dry cleaning paid for. Nor do they have a right to security. Dems, use your power or resign!

Be more radical: abolish the standing SCOTUS. Instead, an instance per case, drawing lower courts judges with no conflicts.

Yep - eff the roberts court

And that’s without the Democrats doing any meaningful persuasion on the subject

Thank you, John Roberts.

When the polling starts asking if Thomas should be arrested for bribery, then we will have finally moved the overton window to an acceptable place

Fascinating, can’t wait to hear the Democrats’ excuse for not doing it

I just don't think we're at that point with this Court though.

I don't understand how increasing the number of corrupt assholes would solve anything.

Same people who don't think the military should have to follow the rules of war.

🤭true

Meet them in a psychologist's capacity…?

Idk. My position has pretty much just always been ‘for it, unless it would make things worse.’ I’d imagine that’s probably 80-ish% of the base’s view too. But I could be uniquely incompetent at gauging potential retaliation lol

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How in the hell do 10% think having no ethics rules is okay? Hey, folks, if you don't understand why the question is being asked, don't answer it. But if you ARE paying attention and you STILL think this is okay, GFY.

Let’s GOOOO!!! @jvl.bsky.social

Amazing what the worst decision since Dred Scott will do to public opinion. Take your pick of about 4 or 5 Roberts court decisions in the past 5 years as to which decision I am referring.

Exactly.

To clarify, my choice of ‘everybody’ was hyperbole given that even one party swearing total fealty to one guy who hates them is enough to feel impossibly absurd. I 100% agree with the frustration when ppl conflate parties. Impeachment itself is achievable with a Dem house majority - vote blue 💙

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social get to it or get off the bus.

The Roberts Legacy (hopefully)

6. All decisions must be explained in detail and signed. No more shadow docket. Including why a case was not taken. 7. When not in session they are required to be in the Circuits helping the local Judges hear cases at the trial level.

If the Senate does not vote no on a nominee within a reasonable time, then that is the same as giving consent. None of this bull crap just not holding a hearing the Dem's let them get away with. Stop rolling over and showing your belly, is the message the Dem's need to learn.

At the same time, lacking an obligation to confirm means a majority party wanting to sabotage POTUS could pull infinite McConnel’s forever, which I guess is always possible, but at least now they’re limited to only appointing replacements when another dies. And the Senate skews R by design.

What I get for trying to type my thoughts on something when I'm running on almost no sleep this week. Darn trial (that we are going to lose badly) prep.

“. . . that 53% of adults favored increasing the number of justices on the Court, while 47% opposed it. That compared with an even 50%–50% split in May 2026. The September survey also found majority support among independents, with 56% in favor, along with 68% of Democrats and 35% of Republicans.”

I think there are a lot of ideas that get tagged as "radical" which actually have a great deal of popular support.

I’m fully onboard with 13.

I like the idea of a random draw, but 50 justices seems unwieldy to me--just in terms of logistics and cost (office space, staff, equipment and supplies, and so on).

It’d help to increase the number of circuits, and tie the number of judges (and members of congress!) to the census, so that we’re no longer stuck with one circuit for everyone west of the Rockies and one circuit for Texas and Louisiana.

Interpreting the law should not be an insanely partisan issue. Does having more population correlate to being more correct on matters of law?

Isn’t this just the EU

From every state? Elected? Appointed? Chosen at random from.. Somewhere?

Pete Buttigieg has been pushing for big structural reforms for nearly 8 years, and in 2020 he was the only candidate for reforming the Supreme Court. Currently he’s pushing to reform every branch of govt, and to address kitchen table issues at the same time. He’s always been ahead on the subject.👇🏾

They won’t say it, but I feel like candidates that talk about Citizen’s United, that’s what they’re signaling they’re open to without appearing radical (see Hamilton, candidate D-KS)

Do not count on the coward democrat leadership to do what’s needed.

They should have done this in the last term but they were too chicken & now we are fucked. Team Red likely wouldn't hesitate to add more to stack their deck. Team Red pushed through multiple people. I could see bipartisan support to get more justices. It will further become political volleyball.

They don’t want to admit that they’re Republicans, why are they going to admit that they’re pro corruption? They just favor the status quo, meaning a co-equal, unaccountable branch of government.

💯% this!

15 seats and 15 circuits.

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but that question is asked in tandem with the term limits question. That to me would be key to independents getting behind it.

I sure wish the ideas of the SCOTUS not being a fixed body of people and SCOTUS duties being earned by merit instead of political appointment would start trending.

If McConnell and Senate Republicans had not cheated to stack the Supreme Court away from popular support with partisans who lied at their hearings, we’d be in a different place. What they did DEMANDS corrective action.

Who are the people who oppose strict ethics codes for justices?

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Amazing! I love it.

I wonder if more people would be on board if they realized that nine was because we had 9 circuits at the time but now we have 13. Each justice is assigned a circuit. So now we need 13 justices (when trump’s no longer appointing them that is).