Exactly. The Republican justification for both Garland and ACB is "the Constitution allows us to do it." This argument is PRECISELY as applicable to court expansion/reorganization and jurisdiction-stripping.
https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1315048165062643713
"Maximalist hardball for me, unilateral adherence to recent norms for thee" is not actually a principle
The thing is that the GOP had a good thing going with Roberts as the median vote -- overwhelmingly conservative results but very unlikely to trigger a hardball response. They decided to get greedy, and if that ends up with the Court blown up they have only themselves to blame
And Biden's answer -- Republicans have been packing the courts for 4 years, we'll see what happens after the election -- is perfectly reasonable. (Particularly since not only is nobody asking Trump about McConnell's 15-16 blockade, he openly boasted about it at the last debate!)
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