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Biden Is Wrong. The Supreme Court Is Already “Politicized.” (jacobin.com)

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President Biden said he won’t expand the Supreme Court because doing so would “politicize” the court in an unhealthy way. But it’s a political institution by its nature — and a disturbingly undemocratic one.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

not an american, so i have no real… uh… i was gonna say skin in the game but tbh the whole western world has skin in the game… regardless:

if that were to happen i’d say it’d get to a point where the number of justices deadlocks the court, and either makes it entirely symbolic or there’s a bipartisan agreement that something needs to be fixed and that’s how you get systemic change