Add to ORKGA Court-packing proposal is imminent. Mainstream Democratic Party Presidential Candidates are already supporting it. The number of Justices on the Supreme Court has been set at nine since 1869, but this is merely a statutory requirement. As soon as Democrats regain control of the Presidency and the Congress, Court-packing will be on the agenda, either expressly or under the guise of Court-reform. Now is the time for the American legal academy to join together to oppose this threat. Court-packing would threaten democracy, destroy the rule of law and undermine judicial independence. It is a pointless and unnecessary reaction born of frustration and nihilism. It can be defeated, but only if America’s law professors act now
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Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news si...
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This Article recommends abandoning the democracy-assisting idea and instead exploring ways to preven...
The Article argues that the polarization in the appointments process for the United States Supreme C...
In this essay, Professor Garfield contends that the conservative justices on the Supreme Court have ...
A Court-packing proposal is imminent. Mainstream Democratic Party Presidential Candidates are alread...
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online...
Proposals to pack the Supreme Court have gained steam recently. Presidential candidate Pete Buttigie...
At several points in history, politicians and commentators have proposed adding seats to the Supreme...
Wide-ranging public discussion of U.S. Supreme Court reform implicates fundamental questions of cons...
When it comes to court packing, questions of “should” and “can” are inextricably intertwined. The co...
The original arguments against court packing carry less weight in the current social and constitutio...
The United States Supreme Court is meant to be above politics, but in reality, it has been politiciz...
The dream of the 1930s is alive in Washington. Democrats see Republicans hemorrhaging voters as Trum...
In How to Save the Supreme Court, we identified the legitimacy challenge facing the Court, traced it...
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news si...
When Franklin Roosevelt unveiled his court-packing plan, law professors found themselves in an unf...
This Article recommends abandoning the democracy-assisting idea and instead exploring ways to preven...
The Article argues that the polarization in the appointments process for the United States Supreme C...
In this essay, Professor Garfield contends that the conservative justices on the Supreme Court have ...