Thread by @jamisonfoser

Since the commission was formed in April, the Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act, let Texas ban abortion, made it harder for workers to organize, blocked an eviction moratorium, and forced asylum seekers to remain in Mexico. All since April.

https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1448348570269138952

It is not a good sign that the WH Supreme Court commission has released its “discussion materials” and the section on court expansion opens by repeating — but not correcting — a Republican lie.

A Democratic senate confirmed a Reagan SCOTUS nominee in 1988.

The White House commission *knows* that Republican lie is a lie — it received testimony from @AaronBelkin correcting the lie back in August. Yet they repeated it anyway, without correction. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

LOL what?

The WH Supreme Court commission’s “discussion materials” are an absolute joke.

Try to make this make sense: The WH Commission says SCOTUS rulings don’t fall on ideological lines because many of the cases are non-ideological and on those non-ideological cases the justices don’t align in ideological ways.

That’s “D-minus, re-write this paper” level nonsense.

The WH Commission has produced a very bad body of “discussion materials,” in large part because rather than diagnosing a problem and assessing solutions, it attempted to synthesize competing views. “Democrats say X; Republicans say Y.” (1/2)

But Republicans are actively working to destroy democracy and seize power by any means necessary, including violent overthrow of the government. They simply are not legitimate governing partners; treating them as such guarantees bad outcomes. (2/2)

https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/status/1448795529807163412

It is *amazing* that at this late date so much of the political, media, and academic establishment simply refuses to grapple with the fundamental truth of what the Republican Party is, and with the consequences of treating it as a normal political party in a functional democracy.

If your starting point for thinking about what we should do is "Let's see what Mitch McConnell says," you're worse than nowhere. Your best possible outcome is Doom, But Slightly Slower.

Republicans have held a Supreme Court majority for more than 50 years and have appointed 15 of the last 19 justices despite losing the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections, and Joe Biden appointed a Commission that does not agree this misalignment is a problem.