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lees1975

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6. Between 2021 and 2023, when we had a majority in both houses and the White House

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 03:49 PM

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We should have packed the court and shut down both their immunity ruling and Citizens United. It was brought up and it was the old guard who ditched the idea because they wanted to keep their precious senate filibuster.

I'll take the loss of the fililbuster any day against a court empowered to expidite Trump's indictments and get him behind bars. They could have done that, overturned Citizens United and got the billionaires out of the election business and saved Roe. But for two traditionalists who bow to the GOP, it would have been done.

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