Podcast
The Rubin Report
It discusses the Democrats' plan to "pack the court", court packing history, and the importance of preserving the Supreme Court's independence and preventing further politicization of the court. The author details why court packing is a threat to the balance of power and the rule of law.
I wrote Saving Nine in order to explain why the opposite is true.
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It discusses the Democrats' plan to "pack the court", court packing history, and the importance of preserving the Supreme Court's independence and preventing further politicization of the court. The author details why court packing is a threat to the balance of power and the rule of law.
I wrote Saving Nine in order to explain why the opposite is true.
As Mitch McConnell likes to say, there's no education in the second kick from the mule. We've already been kicked by the court-packing mule once. I described that at great length in Chapter Four of Saving Nine.
But for the reasons I explained in Chapter 4 of Saving Nine, even when you swing and miss, even when you threaten to pack the court, you propose court packing and the legislation fails it can leave an indelible mark.
All of that and the fact that most of our laws at the federal level are now made by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats that can all be traced to this switch in time that saved nine, as I explain in Chapter 4 of Saving Nine.
Saving Nine is not just about the Supreme Court. It's not just about court packing. It explains all of the maladies that flow inevitably from court packing and flowed from FDR's court packing threat back in the 1930s.