Thread by @mog7546

To Honor Ginsburg, Democrats Have One Choice: GO NUCLEAR

They have to GET READY to RUMBLE

What is coming, at least as the Republicans see it, is a grand political clash. They have been hellbent on reshaping the entire federal judiciary...

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This is their Holy Grail.

After all, nothing galvanizes conservative evangelical voters more than the courts.

For political consultants, it has long been conventional wisdom that right-wingers obsess over the composition of the courts

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#Republicans are, or will be ALL IN

Here’s something Trump can campaign on for the next six and a half weeks, without breaking a sweat or fielding a tough question.

It’s his lifeline. A cure for his coronavirus problem.

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This fight is not only a matter of persuasion.

They will not win by writing well-reasoned op-eds. Cable host tirades will be of little use. Panel discussions will be irrelevant. Clever ads highlighting GOP hypocrisy won’t do the trick.

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THIS IS ABOUT POWER

#Schumer ought to vow that the Democrats, if they win back the Senate and Biden is elected president, will DEMOLISH THE FILIBUSTER, which will allow the Senate to proceed to make Washington, DC, a state (two more senators)

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THE REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE

They must move to add two or four more seats to the Supreme Court. (There is nothing in the Constitution that limits the court’s size to the current nine justices.) In other words

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