(November 13, 2016 at 3:22 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(November 13, 2016 at 3:19 pm)Opoponax Wrote: Our SCOTUS Justices are old. At this point all we can hope for is that they don't retire or die. If that happens, we'll be looking at a 6-3 conservative majority. It's what I was hoping we'd get with a Hillary win, except in the other direction.
I understand that they're old. That's why 2018 is crucial.
The Democrats can, hopefully, filibusterer; Hillary, after all, won the popular vote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta...tion,_2016
(Contrast the 2 photos!)