First? After ghosting a seat and switching an unwritten rule and back again? Not first. They’ve declared war and you want to adhere to Robert’s Rules of Order. Do that and we guarantee their victory. No thanks.
They will expand the Court if it’s in their power and in their interest regardless of what the Democrats do now. If you think otherwise, fine, but you’re dead wrong.
They have a supermajority now, expand and they MIGHT take a supermajority again later? Ok, sure. And if we continue to abide by the norms and leave the Court as it is, they will too? Like they did in not having a vote on Garland? Like they did on ‘not voting on a nomination in an election year’, and then reversing that to ‘it’s ok to confirm a nominee of an electoral loser before they leave office’ (before ratcheting up to not respecting the voters will in an election, which to be fair they weren’t all doing, then anyway). Excuse those of us that are looking for elections to mean something.
The Chicago Tribune version would have been “q”. And rightly so, conserves the most expensive commodity known to civilization- printers ink.