Calling for Court packing is NOT reform.


It's a fundamental attack on the separation of powers and destroys the checks and balances laid out by the Constitution.
You are literally eroding trust in the highest court because your current politics disagree.
We have had nine justices since 1869. That number has held through two world wars, the Great Depression, civil rights, Watergate, Vietnam, 9/11.
Every generation had reasons to be furious at the Court.
None of them broke the structure. Because they understood something this generation apparently forgot: the Court is not supposed to agree with you.
That's the whole point.
Lifetime appointments exist so justices don't have to care about your timeline, politics or your trending hashtag.
They interpret the law. Period.
You don't get to add four seats because you didn't like a ruling.
FDR tried this exact play in 1937. He wanted to push massive reform for his New Deal and was at peak popularity. His OWN party told him no. Senate Democrats looked at a president trying to stack the bench and said this destroys everything. And they were right.
Because the second you let one president resize the Court to get outcomes, every president after does the same thing. Now you don't have a judiciary.
Every single justice sitting today was nominated by an elected president and confirmed by an elected Senate. That IS the process. You not liking the result doesn't make it illegitimate.
The Court hasn't failed. Politicians openly trashing the highest court in the country because it ruled against their agenda are conditioning an entire generation to believe institutions only matter when they're useful.
And people wonder why trust in government is collapsing. That's how you lose a republic.
So I ask anyone wanting to stack the court? Who's really the king, because it now looks like you.
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