People have been talking about that for a while and now it's coming up again. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate...ing-filibuster-expanding-supreme-court-if-gopAnd if I were the Democrats facing winning the Senate and presidency after Trump placed another very right wing Supreme Court justice to replace RBG, the first thing I'd be doing is drawing up plans to appoint the two most liberal justices I could find, increasing the size of SCOTUS to 11 (it's only 9 by convention). Aged ~50 or under, so they'll be there decades. Alternatively and slightly more cruelly, just impeach a conservative justice. For instance bring up the sexual assault / harassment charges against Kavanaugh or Thomas, and who gives a shit what the evidential standard is: Congress are judge and jury and final word. Then appoint an appropriate liberal justice.
Let it be known to the Republicans that if politics is to be an utterly honourless, brutal, knife fight, the Democrats are bringing their sharpest blade.
I'm sure if it happens, the right will howl a lot, and conveniently forget how they were more then happy to fill a court vacancy when it most benefited them(after trump took office, 2018 and now).
There's also a lot of dicussion now how many GOP senator actually mean what they said a few years ago about waiting till after elections to fill Supreme Court Seats. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate...ans-face-tough-decision-on-replacing-ginsburg
A number of them currently serving said "Wait till the election is over" but who fucking knows if that means anything at this point. I do hope some of them have a shred of dignity left in them at this but with the raging dumpster fire 2020 has been.......
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