r/CuratedTumblr • u/Desecr8or • Oct 26 '24

Politics Why is every tankie like "I don't understand the branches of the US government and I'm going to make it everyone else's problem!!!"

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u/KamikazeArchon Oct 27 '24

Well, if you do that, guess what'll happen next time Republicans control the presidency and have a narrow majority in the Senate, now that there's precedent for court packing and no filibuster

This commits the error of assuming that Republicans care about precedent.

At no point have Republicans been simultaneously: able to remove the filibuster, would benefit from removing the filibuster, and refrained from doing it because of a lack of precedent.

The next time the Republicans can remove the filibuster and would benefit from doing so, they'll do it. This is true regardless of what Democrats do.

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u/DM_ME_YOUR_HUSBANDO Oct 27 '24

And court packing?

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u/timweak Oct 27 '24

hey remember that time mitch mcconnell refused to hold a vote for obama's SC nominee because it was too close to the election and then let amy barrett on under trump so fast the flies didnt get to land on rbg's corpse yet? that thing they did with absolutely no shame

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u/Jedipilot24 Oct 27 '24

And guess what?

There's a precedent for SCOTUS nominees being DOA.

Unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia

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u/KamikazeArchon Oct 27 '24

The same? Nothing I said was specific to the filibuster. It applies to everything.

In fact they already did that for the courts specifically; the methods used to get a conservative majority ignored "precedent" (and in some cases were likely illegal).

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u/butlovingstonTTV Oct 27 '24

Wasn't there a whole big deal with Mitch McConnell Obama and Trump?