The Left’s Assault on the Constitution

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The Constitution provides for a Judicial Branch including one supreme Court.1 It also appears to assume that the Supreme Court will include a Chief Justice, stipulating that the Chief Justice shall preside over any Presidential impeachment trial in the Senate.2 However, the Constitution is silent on other matters such as the size and composition of the Supreme Court, the time and place for sitting, and the Court's internal organization, leaving those questions to Congress

Tom Rogers and Susan Del Percio were on Morning Joe this morning talking about court reform. Here's an opinion piece they did today on the topic:

Engendering Support for Supreme Court Reform Is a Matter of Gender
www.newsweek.com

Here is an older op-ed on the topic:

The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Stronger
newrepublic.com

Although I personally find a number of recent SC decisions potentially persausive reasons for Democrats to stack the court, the one decision I feel is the most compelling reason to do so in order to rebalance the current Supreme Court's extreme right-wing bent is the case on presidential immunity. I agree with the above author when she writes:

"These Supreme Court decisions have been based on tortured originalist readings. While one might disagree with the outcome, and the extent of the intervention, at least one felt there was a certain logic behind these cases, a logic by which the decisions could be engaged and challenged. But the decision in Trump v. United States had no such reasoning, not even a pretense of constitutional interpretation. The sweeping decision, more than any other over the past decade and more, exposed a raw partisanship and lack of principle. It not only set a dramatic new precedent that changes 235 years of understanding about the role of the president but it rewrote the Constitution, unbalancing it in favor of the president--and without apology. It made no pretense of considering the potential costs or risks of its dramatic intervention, as has been the norm for major Supreme Court decisions. It arguably removed most checks on presidential power."

And that's not a Democrat vs Republican observation. Staunch conservatives like Judge Luttig also agree that the SC erred grievously in their decision in the presidentail immunity case and in such a way as to undermine the Constituion and our democracy in a substantially harmful way.