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turbinetree

(27,748 posts)
Sun May 31, 2026, 10:17 PM 19 hrs ago

Wall Street Journal editors call out GOP for being asleep at the wheel amid Dem storm

By Robert Davis
Published May 31, 2026 9:23 PM ET

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board called out the Republican Party in a new editorial on Sunday for appearing to be asleep at the wheel as Democrats telegraph how they will wield their power if they win back the House of Representatives in November.

The editors argued that Democrats seem intent on expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, a move that they warned could reshape the institution into "a second progressive legislature" that would rule in their favor when certain laws can't pass through Congress. However, the Republicans seem to have little interest in stopping them, according to the editorial.

"Democrats are telling the public they are plotting one of American history’s most destabilizing power grabs, by degrading the third branch of government. Why aren’t Republicans calling this out and defending the Court?" the editors wrote.

https://www.rawstory.com/republican-party-2676978448/

Hey WSJ editorial board ................pound sand...................your board forgot one important caveat in your rant BS article .............6 maga justices gave your guy immunity from the Espionage Act along with a judge in Florida .........you know that guy that had classified documents on his fucking bathroom floor.......your guy was showing people classified documents at his cereal palace in Florida...........what do you think of Aldrich Ames............he went to prison trying to sell classified documents...........and you wonder about progressives expanding the court to 13.........lets start with your maga 6 bunch that gutted the Voting Rights Act....

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Wall Street Journal editors call out GOP for being asleep at the wheel amid Dem storm (Original Post) turbinetree 19 hrs ago OP
what are the odds of dems actually expanding the court. trump will veto anything and msongs 19 hrs ago #1
I can wait................ turbinetree 19 hrs ago #2
I think we'd need to "expand" the Senate in order to expand the court. Intractable 19 hrs ago #3

msongs

(74,310 posts)
1. what are the odds of dems actually expanding the court. trump will veto anything and
Sun May 31, 2026, 10:25 PM
19 hrs ago

let's say dems got the house and senate both and passed a bill and trump signed it,
trump would have 2 years to fill those new seats with his choices. of couse dems could block all his choices but then its back to square one. only works if dems have congress and the presidency IMO

Intractable

(2,439 posts)
3. I think we'd need to "expand" the Senate in order to expand the court.
Sun May 31, 2026, 10:32 PM
19 hrs ago

It still seems unlikely we'll gain control of the Senate.

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