Seeing a lot of talk about "manning the barricades" and similar against a new justice who would strike down Roe. Guys, there are no barricades. Harry Reid tore them down. The norm that a minority can filibuster justices they hate died years ago, and there is no way to stop this.

That said, I don't know that Roe will be overturned; Roberts likes to take baby steps, not giant leaps. But this is a valuable lesson about political norms: if you don't enforce them when you're in power, you lose their protection when you lose it.



Republicans, take note.

You cannot kinda sorta partway destroy a norm. Once Reid ended the filibuster for judicial appointments, it was clearly not going to hold back any Supreme Court nominee liberals hated.