They said they were looking into it from November to December and then once they won they entirely abandoned it.
Court packing has a certain negative notion that you're "packing" something unjustly, meanwhile republicans kept hundreds of seats unfilled just waiting to pack them... they actually did pack them and any expansion isn't "packing" the shit needs rebalancing after what they did. You say this almost as if you don't think the correct thing to do is to expand the courts so that they're filled at least by a democrat administration when they actually do have the real majority..No, it would be to prevent it legislatively to begin with, not pack the courts to get the ruling they want (even if this is a gross as fuck ruling).
Nearly half (48%) of democrats backed expanding the courts before Amy was appointed. I don't see any more recent polling on this though.Plays well with the Democratic base but that's about it. Depending on the poll you look at, it has a slim majority of overall support.
SCOTUS historically has been used against the needs of the majority, for a short time, some things passed that were good but I'd disagree that they weren't popular.The SCOTUS isn't there to give "the majority of the country what it wants" dude. That's not how it operates at all, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of its role in government. A great many of its ruling, including rulings that many of us celebrate, were not popular at the time it was ruled.
Often the majority has been on the right side of history while SCOTUS and congress hasn't been.
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I'm talking about the stance the party was taking.