We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.
That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.
Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.
If Dems added 4 seats under the next Dem president, we'd have a 7-6 moderate/liberal Supreme Court that could...
🚺 Restore Roe v. Wade
⚖️ Reverse presidential immunity
🌎 Protect the environment
🧑🔧 Protect unions and workers
🗳️ Restore the Voting Rights Act
📍 End gerrymandering
⭐ And more
Let's do it!
LFG.
When/IF Democrats get back in power in 2029 - they should absolutely #ExpandtheCourt.
February 20, 2026 Today, the Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s unconstitutional and reckless tariff scheme. In response, Take Back The Court Action Fund released the following statement: “We finally found something the right-wing Supreme Court justices won’t help Trump do: Sink their investment portfolios with an economically ruinous and unconstitutional tariff scheme,” said Sarah Lipton-Lubet, president of Take Back the Court Action Fund.
TBTCAF’s @liptonlubet.bsky.social on today’s SCOTUS tariff decision:
“We finally found something the right-wing Supreme Court justices won’t help Trump do: Sink their investment portfolios with an economically ruinous and unconstitutional tariff scheme.”
🔔🔔🔔 “Democratic politicians need to be thinking about Supreme Court reforms now, so that if and when they have a window in which they can implement such reforms, they don’t waste precious time getting organized” 🔔🔔🔔
There are ample professional disincentives to spilling the inner workings of a court; even misconduct is rarely disclosed.
Only reason to demand NDAs is if the Justices are engaging in conduct so egregious that the legal profession would recognize the need for court employees to disclose it.
Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering.
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
Conservatives/Republicans don't blink when it comes to consolidating power.
Something Democrats/progressives must keep in mind IF they were to get control of the WH and both chambers of Congress again (can't repeat the same mistakes from 2021).
#ExpandtheCourt
John Roberts was born today.
A reminder on what he has unleashed on America.
This all his fault.
There isn't a perfect playbook for defeating authoritarianism, but we know from other countries that democratic resurgence is possible. I wrote for @slate.com about some of what we're seeing in Minnesota and why I believe, even now, that we will win.
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Did he just say "what goes around comes around"??! 👀
I don't know exactly how the new birthright citizenship case will come out, but I'd note that if it eviscerates §1 of the 14th Amendment, the remedy of "just pass a constitutional amendment" wouldn't apply. The 14th is already there.
The sole public remedy would be to reform the Supreme Court.
Arcadia, always.
In @motherjones.com, @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social have an essential rundown of the ways John Roberts & the MAGA court have empowered and protected Donald Trump’s autocratic regime. The Roberts Court’s decades-long assault on democracy got us here www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I think about this a lot and I've convinced myself that (almost) none of our current emergency could happen without Roberts' blessing. For my money he's done more to hurt the US than anyone in the country's history by a pretty wide margin. He's way worse than Trump.
Because of that, "[u]nder the Roberts court, it won’t be enough to rewrite the rules of the game. The umpires are the problem."
Nothing gets fixed without reforming and rebalancing the Supreme Court. We have to address the rot at the root.
One of the key insights: "As the justices keep rushing to Trump’s aid, Democrats grow more open to reform if they return to power—and thus Roberts lashes himself more tightly to Trump’s mast."
Stop whatever you're doing and read this piece by @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social laying out how John Roberts has spent his entire adult life constructing the scaffolding for Trump's authoritarian takeover, and why he's so invested in rigging the system to continue to help Trump.
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Great to see a clear-eyed assessment of the path forward that incorporates court expansion & other crucial judicial reforms. We can't move forward if we keep letting MAGA justices pull us back. Into a sinkhole. Buried under East Wing rubble. Thank you @rooseveltinstitute.org for this important work!
Sadly evergreen.
Must read
Thank you to @joanesposito.bsky.social and @heartlandsignal.bsky.social for having me on to highlight the incredible damage the Roberts Court is doing and what we need to do to stop them.
Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...
Exactly this - a “precondition for any other promise to be credible.”
Whole 🧵 is an important read.
the press release writes itself:
"I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Supreme Court until until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on"
Sotomayor: “yet an-other grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
"Barrett offers a misreading of King Solomon as a strategic foil for her idealized American judge, who evidently never needs to worry about facts."
this this this.
it's part of a general lack of coverage on the Supreme Court (something we try to remedy on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social!)
not sure why it happens - but i would love to see the reargument order - & stakes of the case - get attention *now* - before argument & before a decision.
