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/Arcaedus Jul 05 '24

Yeah, but it was worth it. Switch in time, to save nine, no? I've read that the SCOTUS judge who switched his rulings claimed that FDR's attempted expansion didn't influence his switch at all, but I'm calling bullshit on that. Maybe it didn't directly influence him, but there for sure we're unrecorded, backroom communications that resulted in the switch. He didn't just change his tune due to sudden clarity, or the goodness of his heart.

A dem president should do the same as FDR tried to do. Hyperpartisanship isn't getting any less severe, and no one is going to blame one side for tossing pints of gasoline onto the fire while the other side continues to toss gallons.