this guy, I swear…

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    I used to think we needed to add 4 more seats to SCOTUS, but I no longer believe that. Now I believe we should add 20 seats, with rolling term limits. SCOTUS shouldn’t be so small that one bad faith president can manipulate the system and negatively affect policy for the next century.

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      I like the idea of a new justice being appointed every year or two. Maybe some extra rules to avoid senate shenanigans. No actual limit, just a constant stream of new judges to hopefully dilute the power of newindividual.

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    The conservative movement and their party are just full of very weird people.

    What is the real concern here, supposedly? That people travel here just to have babies? How many people actually do that, and what actual problems does it cause?

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      I’ve seen people comment (possibly sarcastically) that it’s a problem because illegal immigrants can just come in and have a baby and they’ll be eligible to be president in 35 years. As if becoming president is an easy thing just anyone can do…oh

      Seriously though, I don’t see an issue with someone born to non-citizens becoming president if they’ve lived in the country all their lives and are able to get the support from voters. Why does it matter who their parents were?

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      Whoah now, you’re asking conservatives to actually think before they act? Blasphemy. You should just have faith they know what’s best 😇

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      People do travel here to have their babies so the baby can have u.s. citizenship. I can not give you a number off the top of my head but….

      https://cis.org/Richwine/Births-Illegal-Immigrants-and-LongTerm-Temporary-Visitors

      Assuming that births to illegal immigrants as a proportion of births to all noncitizens has held roughly constant since our last report, we estimate that there were 225,000 to 250,000 births to illegal immigrants in 2023, amounting to close to 7 percent of births in the U.S. We will revise these numbers as we obtain more data.

      And the pew research center has it at 9%

      But these numbers are for all illegal immigrants not people who travel here specifically to have there kid born here. But the number isn’t 0. Now the problem it causes is……. I don’t have one.

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    Of all the decisions he lost with the court, this is the one he wants them to rehear? This one has I’ve of the weakest legal arguments to begin with.

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      The courts have stopped this administration dozens or even hundreds of times, I’ve lost count by now.

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        Oh shit? They’re trying the ICE agents who killed American Citizens now?

        Or have they reversed the 100 year terrorist sentences for the people exercising their right to assemble?

        Maybe you mean that Due Process is required for all individuals again?

        I can’t wait to search through the newly released Epstein files.

        … It’s not about the hundreds of little cases they’ve been able to stop… It’s about the 20ish massive things they haven’t.

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        They haven’t stopped shit. They have told the Trump admin to stop. And then they just say fuck you and do it anyway. Or even if they are stopped they then go out and find a loophole. So please forgive me for not having faith that the courts are going to stop the Nazis. The courts sure didn’t stop the Nazis in Germany and they were still running right up to that last election where the Nazis killed all their political opponents.

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    Can the average Joe also ask the surpeme court to rehear or reconsider any of their decisions?
    Why does trump think he can? How many reconsiderations does he think he has available per case?