[linhns]

The most stupid idea ever. Biden, despite his frailties, was conscious enough not to do this.

[c22]

I think they were just overly confident that they would be re-elected. Why throw the baby out when the bathwater is still warm?

[UncleMeat]

Packing the court just means passing legislation. It isn't some criminal thing.

The court is an expression of political power. Expressing political power through it is not stupid.

[AnthonyMouse]

Packing the court is unprecedented, and as soon as anyone did it, they would both do it continuously. It would also outrage the other party and make the first to do it more likely to lose the next election.

So you would get to pack the court for the rest of your current term before the other party gets back in and packs it the other way, and thereafter lose the courts as a check on the party in power forever because the first thing a party would do when they get into power is pack the courts.

It's a monumentally stupid idea.

[ceejayoz]

Biden shared a delusion with Schumer and first-term Obama, that the Republicans have a behavioral floor they won't gleefully take a jackhammer to.

Democrats are finally waking up to this, I think, given the recent retaliatory gerrymandering in CA and VA.