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[Barry MacKichan]

FDR proposed it.
Everyone (seemingly) roared disapproval.
FDR dropped it.
The court stopped opposing all the New Deal legislation.
I think, and the world may agree with me, that FDR got what he wanted.

—Barry

On 8 Oct 2020, at 16:18, Frank Wimberly wrote:

> During one of his many terms FDR was accused of trying to pack the 
> Court.
> He responded that he was trying to unpack it.  I don't remember the 
> details
> since I learned that in a U.S. history course I took during my junior 
> year
> which was about 55 years ago.
>
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> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 1:36 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Ha! That was the essence of one of the 538 panel member's phrasing
>> suggestion for Kamala Harris in response to Pence's question about 
>> packing
>> SCOTUS. The elaborated version was: "Because confirming Barrett, NOW, 
>> is
>> such a horribly wrong thing to do, we have no choice BUT to pack the
>> court." ... I.e. now look what you made me do. That was my dad's 
>> favorite
>> phrase to justify whatever abuse he chose to mete out that day. He 
>> once ran
>> over my bicycle with his truck. I *made* him run over my bike because 
>> I
>> left it laying in the driveway. It's a running joke with my fellow 
>> drinkers
>> who *regularly* FORCE me to drink more than I should. There is no 
>> free
>> will. I live to serve.
>>
>> On 10/8/20 11:28 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>> Look what you made me do,
>>
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>> ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ
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