• @quaddo
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    222 days ago

    Pardon my ignorance as a non-American, but weren’t there rumblings of Biden being able to do the same, back around the time of the RBG debacle?

    • @[email protected]
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      322 days ago

      Yep, and he didn’t out of some misguided belief that Republicans would behave with some amount of human decency. Unfortunately, the Republicans he knew from his time as a Congressman had given up decorum and bipartisanship for their personal ideologies and fealty to a fraudster.

      It would have been and still is the sensible thing to do, because the highest judiciary should be the least partisan, and it’s a progressive move Biden really should make in an effort to maintain that balance.

      • @[email protected]
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        322 days ago

        Still would’ve needed congress to expand the court and no way in hell would Manchin or sinema ever have gone along w Biden