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		InitialLastName on Aug 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Venezuela's Supreme Court certifies Maduro's claim... There's a perspective from which FDR's attempt to pack the court did work: He didn't expand the court, but the credible threat that he would do so got the justices to back off on blocking the New Deal policies he was implementing.

tmaly on Aug 22, 2024 [–]

unfortunately with the way case law works, we are stuck with those bad decisions today.

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