It never ends, does it? Sore-loser Democrats were more-or-less satisfied with our Constitution for two centuries until the same rules by which they often won and dominated in many generations suddenly came to threaten their hegemony for just a brief interlude. So now, poor babies, they want to close down the Electoral College. They loved it for years, especially the past two decades, as they found they owned a huge head-start in every Presidential election with big blue states like California. New York, Illinois, and New Jersey. Republicans were facing Presidential extinction under the Electoral College, with much made of the “narrow path” that any GOP candidate desperately would have to chart, with virtually no room for error. Yet, somehow, Donald Trump successfully navigated between Scylla and Charybdis in 2016. And now the Democrats still are in shock because no one offered them a “trigger warning” that they could lose. Confined to their safe spaces, reeling from the microaggression of a Trump win — well, actually quite macro that aggression that woke the Woke — they now want to scotch the entire Electoral College (all the more so, now that the feds are arresting people who pay bribes to get into college). Think about life without an Electoral College:

No more campaigning and advertising focused on “swing states” in the Midwest and running through Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Instead, half the campaign or more takes place in vote-rich California and New York Republican Presidential candidates have ignored New York and California for much of the past quarter century and more because the geographic expanse of those two polities is huge, the advertising costs to reach so many upstate, downstate, and central-state voting markets are beyond prohibitive, and the Dems will get the entire electoral vote of those two states anyway. As a result of GOP Presidential candidates and operatives ignoring those two states for so long, the local Republican parties in those two states have withered like oil-secreting sebaceous glands that dried out after two decades of accutane treatment of acne (or, for the older set, like adrenal glands after two decades of prednisone). Withered and gone. But now, with an Electoral College abandoned, the GOP national campaign will start focusing again on New York and California, forcing them to rebuild those state parties. As a result, within ten years therefrom, those parties will come back into play for Republicans in state elections, too, notwithstanding the distorting impact of illegal immigration on election results. Let’s say there is a tight disputed vote, like the Florida chads in the Bush-Gore drama. Or let’s say no chads. Or let’s say both candidates are named Chad. But the election tallies come in, and the national votes are really close, which happens in a country that is split down the middle, as we are now and often are. Guess what that recount is going to look like. It will not just be a bunch of guys and women with magnifying glasses in Palm Beach inspecting punched holes and a few mortuaries recounting Democrat caskets in Chicago to compare against tombstone numbers in Springfield. Rather, every single ballot box in the United States, every single harvested envelope, every single voting district in the country will have to do a recount. Won’t that be fun?

Was it attorney Barry Scheck who got rave reviews for his one famous cross-examining question during the O.J. Simpson “Trial of the Century”?

How about that, Mr. Fong?

The point is that there is a thing called the Law of Unanticipated Consequences. Things do not always work out the way the law-amenders expect. Harry Reid changed the law for getting Obama’s judicial nominees confirmed, abandoning the filibuster-rule requirement of sixty votes, and he unexpectedly paved the way for Justice Neil Gorsuch who succeeded Justice Scalia, Justice Brett Kavanaugh who succeeded Justice Kennedy, and Justice Amy Barrett who succeeded Justice Ginsburg. In the same way, Biden and other Democrats tied up Bush late-term judicial nominees on grounds that the new national election was coming soon, so the people, rather than the outgoing President, should be allowed to decide the future course of the country. That ploy opened the door for Mitch McConnell years later to hamstring Merrick Garland. That is how it goes.

In addition, I once before offered my Maury Wills Analogy on these pages:

Maury Wills, a remarkably successful base-stealer of historic achievement, once was asked how he managed to be so successful in stealing second base (from first base) against left-handed pitchers. (The left-handed pitcher faces the runner on first base, in contradistinction to the rightie who necessarily stands on the pitcher’s mound with his back to that runner. Therefore, it typically is understood that a runner on first base is disadvantaged when seeking to “get a jump” and trying to get a head start on running to second base when the pitcher is a southpaw, a leftie, who is staring right at him.) So the reporter asked Maury Wills: “How is it that you run so freely against left-handers, given that they can stare right at you carefully as they are pitching?” And Wills answered: “Because with righties, I can see only their backs, but with lefties I can stare at them carefully, too, as they are pitching.”

Democrats, in their sore-losing narcissism, now are building steam behind a new cheating strategy to “pack the Supreme Court.” That is, if the Court now trends 5-4 conservative, and if another Trump replacement like the one alluded to above ensues to make a 6-3 conservative court, the Democrats now are talking about just throwing the rules out the window and expanding the court from nine justices to, say, fifteen justices. That way, they could add six more and turn a 6-3 disadvantage to a 9-6 advantage. That not only is cheating, just as they cheat by importing millions of illegals to change the electorate that had abandoned them in droves, but it also is blind to both the Law of Unintended Consequences and the Maury Wills Rule.

If the Democrats actually win the Presidency in 2024, after the end of President Trump’s second term, or in 2032 after President Pence’s second term expires, and if they ever pull such a stunt, here is what will ensue. The next Republican President elected after that will have the precedent in place to pack each and every federal appellate circuit in the country. These days, for example, the ubiquitous Ninth Circuit is lopsided with six vacancies, approximately sixteen Democrat appointees and nine judges named by Republicans, some who likewise turned out liberal because of the “blue slip” rule that now is disappearing and will be gone by then. Imagine if a Republican President, following the Democrats’ precedent of packing in six extra Supreme Court justices, decides to add, oh, ten new judges to the Ninth Circuit, making the balance 19-16 the other way, while also filling the six vacancies to aggregate to a 25-16 spread for conservatives? More examples? The Fourth Circuit now is approximately 10-5 Democrat, and the Federal Circuit approximately 8-4. Imagine that a Republican President adds, oh, ten more judges to each. Then the Fourth becomes 15-10 GOP, and the Federal Circuit becomes 14-8 that way. Before you know it, every appellate panel in the country becomes lopsided Republican.

Sure, the Democrats then one day can and would re-stack the circuits with even more judges. And then the GOP would re-stack with even more at their next opportunity. Suddenly, the entire structure of a somewhat impartial judiciary completely falls out the window, with pure cynicism now defining the federal judiciary no longer as an institution marked by many of America’s most brilliant legal minds of both major intellectual perspectives, but instead as an agglomeration of purely partisan hacks. If the Democrats ever dare stacking the Supreme Court, that is what will lie ahead. Every Escobedo v. Illinois, Miranda v. Arizona, and Gideon v. Wainwright will be in play, and so will every Roe v. Wade. Stare decisis out the window. The law out the window. Everything gets overturned every four or eight years. One massive defenestration of jurisprudence.

How about that, Mr. Fong?