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The thing I find surprising about ramming through Barrett is that they had the majority. That majority delivered on unions, voting rights, plenty of religion stuff, campaign finance, and a lot of regulatory stuff, just for starters. They could have just left it. 1/6
Even with a D landslide, the most likely form of pushback would have been grumbling. The only politically plausible way to go after the Court would have been to wait for a retirement, and the R-loaded lower federal courts would have been politically invisible. 2/6
A D Congress + President would be strategizing furiously about how to trim the sails of their ideas to get them past Roberts + Kav, not talking about whether SCOTUS term limits, jurisdiction stripping, or increasing the size of the courts was the best way to go. 3/6
Meanwhile, a lot of ambitious initiatives would have been dead in the water. The Court would have continued to tilt the deck politically toward the Republicans and to protect late-stage hypercapitalism. 4/6
A D Congress up for re-election in 2022 would have precious little to show for their efforts and would have had to run against the Court, generally not a successful strategy. But instead, here we are. 5/6
I think this will go down as a catastrophic political overreach and I am here for it. /fin
