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Court Packing Is A Chimera, Brian L. Frye
Court Packing Is A Chimera, Brian L. Frye
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The dream of the 1930s is alive in Washington. Democrats see
Republicans hemorrhaging voters as Trump struggles with the
economy and the pandemic and are salivating at the prospect of
retaking not only the White House, but also the Senate. Of course, you
should never sell a bearskin until you've caught the bear. But even a
blowout victory can't get Democrats the prize they really want, a
Supreme Court majority. So, in back-to-the-future fashion, many
progressives are pushing the idea of court packing. After all, in politics,
rules are made to be broken.