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Originally Posted by GGG
Careful what you wish for. The Democrats eliminating the filibuster for lower court appointments has led to Trump stacking the lower courts. Much better to fix the structural problems of life time terms allowing retirements to be political then to keep expanding the court each time a party holds the Senate and the presidency.
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What was the alternative? The GOP-controlled senate made it clear they would abuse the filibuster and block
every Obama judicial nominee. So the Democrats could either remove the filibuster and get Obama's judges approved or keep it, get none of his nominees on the bench, and then a future Republican president gets to fill all those vacancies. It's revisionist history to blame this on the Democrats when it's one party and one party only, the Republicans, who have shown time and again that they have no interest in consistent rules and historical norms if they're an impediment to the consolidation of the GOP's power.