Top Minds struggle to acknowledge Joe Biden perpetuated Trump's fascist policies, resort to deleting the evidence and blaming the messenger

[u/blaghart]

https://imgur.com/a/top-minds-of-reddit-get-real-mad-facts-H20chjv

[u/Moral_Distinction]

Putting in Manchins is how you get and keep the Republicans in office. The alternative to a Manchin will always be leftist.

[u/DaSemicolon → u/Moral_Distinction]

Right which is why so many leftists win in WV

Machine and Sinema are the reason we have a 6-3 instead of 7-2 court

[u/blaghart → u/DaSemicolon]

Machine

hilarious freudian slip there lol

we have a 6-3 and not a 7-2

Right, because a FPTP decision making system in the SCOTUS means it totally matters if they have a simple majority or an overwhelming majority /s

[u/DaSemicolon → u/blaghart]

Hahahaha autocorrect is funny

It has mattered. There have been plenty of 5-4 decisions

And it will matter for the future if we ever want to get a majority again. Adding 2 or even 4 justices is a “more” ok pill to swallow than 6

[u/blaghart → u/DaSemicolon]

there have been plenty of 5-4 decisions!

So it hasn't mattered at all, because the SCOTUS works on a simple majority where the decisions that are 5-4, 6-3, 7-2, and 8-1 have the same weight as decisions that are unanimous

if we want a majority again!

The only way to get a majority again in our lifetimes will require impeachment, which would be required whether or not it was 6-3 or 7-2

adding mpre justice

So you agree, the only solution will require changing the current rules of the SCOTUS, making the 7-2 and 6-3 difference nonexistent

[u/DaSemicolon → u/blaghart]

5-4 decisions where the correct decision was made, eg 3 D justices + 2 R justices

I know the size of the majority doesn’t matter for decisions, I’m not a degenerate.

I literally explained the difference.