Comment by dahdum
5 years ago
They didn’t pack the Supreme Court, it’s still the same number. They did appoint a bunch of textualists and originalists, not just die hard conservatives. That makes it harder to drive progressive change through the judiciary, but the legislative branch was always the better option.
Actual court packing is a terrible idea, last attempted by FDR, at great political cost. Hearing candidates actively propose plans for doing so boggled my mind.
> That makes it harder to drive progressive change through the judiciary, but the legislative branch was always the better option.
Maybe not so much. Didn't this court gut important parts of the the Voting Rights Act?
We also have Roberts to thank for Citizens United, which flooded the political landscape with dark money and made the current GOP strategy viable.