10-13-2020, 08:00 PM
(10-13-2020, 07:33 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I don't think it's hair splitting at all. There is an enormous difference between filling vacancies that already exist and creating vacancies that you then get to fill. Especially when we're talking about the SCOTUS with only nine seats to be had. In fact, the idea of packing the SCOTUS was so toxic that it caused virtually everyone to turn on FDR when he proposed it.
A person who was killed in self defense and a murder victim are both dead, but there's an enormous, and important, difference in how they got that way.
The better analogy would be two murder victims, one by stabbing and one by GSW. Because they are both murdered.
The legislative branch's job is to enact laws, not obstruct the laws they enact so that they can't perform the job they're supposed to do. Enacting legislation to counter obstruction would actually be in their wheelhouse. I don't view that as inherently more "wrong" than obstruction.
