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I actually think it's the opposite. As we approach election time these boards are filled with the craziest conspiracies about things the Republicans will do when they don't and won't have the vehicle to do it.

What I said is that they will move away from Amy Coney Barrett quality judges and put in more Aileen Cannon's. That is a realistic move that will on the aggregate have such a bigger effect than messaging legislation. They played the long game to overturn Roe. Within the first 6 months they will get to replace Thomas and Alito and have 5 young justices all appointed by Trump. We can only hope they match the credentials of his previous justices.

But it's the district courts that most of the laws are interpreted. Very few cases are weighed in on by the Supreme Court. And that's where Trump will have latitude to approve the judges that are unqualified as he did with a few back in his first term.

Project 2025 is a thinktank creation that may have some effect on the administration may have none. I personally think Trump won't pass his party to a bunch of fundamentalist idiots that he doesn't need anymore. But even if he does want to implement some of it the constraints he faces will make a national abortion ban under 25 or so weeks impossible.

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