Thread by @RWPUSA

"The panel led by [Obama WH Counsel] Bob Bauer...and Cristina Rodriguez, a Yale Law School professor...cautioned that excessive change could potentially erode democracy...."
Huh?
What about SCOTUS eroding democracy by striking down campaign finance laws?
apnews.com/article/corona…

We are quickly moving toward the Supreme Court saying there's a constitutional right for anyone to buy, sell and carry an AR-15, as well as to bribe public officials with electioneering communications, but a woman has no right to an abortion. This Court is going off the rails.

The Founders weren't stupid. If they had wanted there to be only nine justices, the Constitution would have said so. It doesn't. Ours is a representative democracy. If the Court mindlessly strikes down an Act of Congress (e.g. Citizens United), Congress can do something about it.

The panel on the Supreme Court that just issued its report was top heavy with professors from law schools that aspire to, and often do, send students to clerk on the Supreme Court. Did anyone think this panel would recommend major changes such as additional justices? Dream on...

FDR didn't need to carry out his plan to appoint additional justices. Justice Owen Roberts got the point, changed his vote, and the Court stopped striking down New Deal legislation. If @POTUS makes that same point, C.J. John Roberts will get it too. Reverse Citizens United NOW.

The panel included many professors teaching at law schools where they are likely to write recommendation letters for Supreme Court clerks. An awkward situation if the panel were to criticize the Court's dysfunction as much as it should and then recommend real change. It didn't.

I'm sure many if not most members of the panel appointed to study the Supreme Court oppose the decision in Citizens United. That's not the point. The panel's job was to tell the president and Congress what they can do about a Court that is undermining democracy. They didn't.