It’s a Good Thing Democrats Didn’t Pack the Courts

Bill Scher: “The judiciary is able to exercise any power at all to check Trump because in 2021 and 2022, when Democrats controlled the White House and Congress, they resisted calls to pack the Supreme Court.”

“Suppose Democrats had succumbed to the temptation, which would have required abolishing the filibuster to ram through a partisan court-packing bill. In that case, the first thing the current Republican trifecta would have done is pass legislation along party lines to gut the entire judiciary. Every level would have been packed to negate any power held by judges untethered to Trump.”

“All constitutional guardrails would have been eradicated. Then, Trump would have gotten to work issuing executive orders without regard to the Constitution or the law, and no one would have been able to stop him.”