The Supreme Court is out-of-control. We need reform now.
"The president wanted to do birthright citizenship. Some of the conservatives said no to him on that. Just yesterday, they said no to his mail-in ballot scheme. I mean, some of the, you know, isn't that proof that the system is working, that you don't need to expand? And if you expand, when does it stop? I mean, do you end up with 150 justices? If the Democrats expand, why wouldn't Republicans expand it back? The bar cannot be so low that we celebrate, not even unanimous, but most of the court agreeing that the plain text of the Constitution should remain the plain text of the Constitution, as was the case in the birthright citizenship case. We had four Republican justices who were willing to say that even though that says right there in the Constitution that if you're born in the United States, you're an American citizen, that that's not good enough for them. They're willing to upend that. So we can't allow the bar to be so low that we're willing to take these scraps and think that it's acceptable in any way. As far as the second question, you know, are we gonna prevent ourselves from taking action here for fear of Republicans abusing their power in the future? Are they not abusing their power right now? So we can either make the conscious decision to entrench the status quo, or we can recognize that this system is not working, that these people are basically ultra-partisan politicians in robes and actually take steps that we need to take to make sure that any progressive legislation can withstand scrutiny."
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The Supreme Court is out-of-control. We need reform now.