Leftists’ Supreme Court packing makes a return
Losing the people? Then change the rules.
By Victor Davis Hanson - - Thursday, May 5, 2022
OPINION:
Court-packing — the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes — used to be a dirty word in the history of American jurisprudence.
The tradition of a nine-person Supreme Court is now 153 years old. The last attempt to expand it for political gain was then-President Franklin Roosevelt’s failed effort in 1937. Roosevelt’s gambit was so blatantly political that even his overwhelming Democratic majority in Congress rebuffed him.
Yet now “court-packing” is a law school cause celebre. It is hailed as a supposedly quick fix to reverse the current 5-4 conservative majority.
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That insider leak of a draft opinion was a first in the modern history of the Supreme Court. It violated all court protocols. Yet it was met with stunning approval from the American left.
The leaker either intended to create a preemptive public backlash against the purported court majority in the hope that one or two justices might cave and switch under pressure — or to gin up the progressive base to fend off a likely disaster in the November midterm elections.
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