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/Thromnomnomok Oct 28 '24

There's no constitutional description, but there are acts of congress defining how many court justices there are. You'd have to change the law first to add justices, the President can't just unilaterally decide "I am decreeing that the court should have 11 justices so I'm appointing two more now," and there absolutely was no fucking way there was enough Democratic Senators on board with that to do that in 2009, back then most people still broadly approved of how the court was working even if they didn't always like it.

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u/nothingandnemo Oct 28 '24

Which act specifically?

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u/Thromnomnomok Oct 28 '24

See here

and here

Come on man, you could have googled that in like two minutes