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Fiendish Thingy

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6. It won't matter if he replaces them with Cannon and Barron

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 09:10 AM

11 hrs ago

As long as voters elect Dems willing to expand the court, and kill the filibuster to do so.

Without expanding the court and neutralizing the MAGA majority, there can be no repairing of the damage of the Trump era, no restoration of lost rights.

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