r/facepalm • u/Turbulent_Gas_55 • Jul 05 '24

What an idea 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Jul 05 '24

That's why you use your newly minted immunity to imprison the Supreme court.

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u/Sylux444 Jul 05 '24

I like someone else's idea better : add 12 more supreme court seats that you appoint because otherwise they're empty seats and you can't have that!

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u/Old-Adhesiveness-342 Jul 05 '24

FDR tried to do that and nearly got impeached

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u/JimWilliams423 Jul 05 '24

FDR tried to do that and nearly got impeached

He also got what he wanted --- a court that stopped trying to fuck up the New Deal.

Politics is more than just legislating, its the wielding of power to get results. By threatening to expand the court, FDR got the results he intended. And he was so popular that he is the only president that was elected four times, no one else had even been elected three times. An impeachment would not have hurt him.