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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some Democrats are definitely calling for adding justices to the court. Other Democrats or not because they know they would need the House and 60 votes in the Senate to do it.[/quote]

They do not need 60 votes. That is an arbitrary number. They need a simple majority. [/quote]

Not according to long standing Senate rules.  
Even a few Democratic Senators are against this.  [/quote]
If they have 51 votes to pack the Court then they’ll have 51 votes to bypass the filibuster.  All but two Dems voted to bypass the filibuster to pass Biden’s voting rights law; the filibuster is clearly on its last legs, and had the Democrats not choked in a couple Senate races it would already be dead.

I think it’s less likely they’ll actually pack the Court.  They could advance many of their priorities, like student loan forgiveness, with a simple majority in Congress once the filibuster is dead. 
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The thing is. Why wouldn't the Republicans just flip this the next time they controlled a majority in the House and Senate along with the Presidency? I'm a Dem but passing such a drastic change would seem to only work if you thought it gave you lasting power -- the voting rights law adding 2 senators to DC and 2 to Puerto Rico would potentially do that. Packing the Court...not so much.[/quote]

You do it because you can…like the republicans do. If things were reversed what do you think the republicans would do? If you are willing to compromise and the other side does not you lose every time.[/quote]

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