Source: The UnPopulist
by Gregg Nunziata
“Judicial independence is a hard-won but easily lost feature of liberal democracy. As we’ve seen in Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere, aspiring autocrats prioritize delegitimizing, intimidating, and weakening the judiciary. Court packing would, inescapably, have this effect, which is why a Democratic Congress rejected Franklin Roosevelt’s court-packing proposal, calling it a ‘direct violation of the spirit of the American Constitution.’ As in medicine, the operating motto for any intervention in statecraft is: first, do no harm.” (09/’23/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-scheme-to-pack-and-unpack-the-supreme