Non, it is not OK. For the “improvements” envisioned by DeSantis, Roberts, who has seen the pitch wobble quite under his watch, must go. Sotomayor’s time is also almost up, he suggested. “So it’s possible that in those eight years we’ll have the opportunity to fortify the justices… Alito and Thomas as well as make improvements to those others, and if you could do that, you’d have a Conservative majority 7 -2 in the Supreme Court that would last a quarter of a century,” he said, to what The Washington Post described as “loud applause.”
It would last more than a quarter of a century, a recent theoretical analysis by Supreme Court scholars suggests. Republican High Court nominations have outnumbered Democrats 42 to 12 since 1970. Democratic presidents may not have a majority of nominations until 2065, according to their extrapolations from the historical trend.
If DeSantis, Trump, or any of the other pack members hot on their heels, took the White House in 2024, there might not be a chance for another Democratic president in the decades to come. Free and fair elections would be the first casualty of a second Trump term. DeSantis will do no less. The Trump-filled Supreme Court may very well be willing to help achieve the goal of permanent Republican rule. Considering the shift to the right in recent years despite Democrats winning 7 of the last 8 national popular votes in presidential elections, we are already well on our way.
This makes the idea of an expansion of the courts to dilute the power of conservatives huddled on the ground seem positively reasonable and rational. And necessary.
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