Nancy Gertner/Laurence H. Tribe: The Supreme Court isn’t well.
"We now believe that Congress must expand the size of the Supreme Court... We did not come to this conclusion lightly."
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"We now believe that Congress must expand the size of the Supreme Court... We did not come to this conclusion lightly."
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https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1469117869975814152
"In voting to submit the report to the president neither of us cast a vote of confidence in the Supreme Court itself. Sadly, we no longer have that confidence, given three things: first, the dubious legitimacy of the way some justices were appointed..." 2/ 
"[S]econd,... the “stench” of politics hovering over this court’s deliberations [Sotomayor]...; and third, the anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian direction of this court’s decisions about matters such as voting rights, gerrymandering and the corrupting effects of dark money." 3/
"Those judicial decisions haven’t been just wrong; they put the court... on a one-way trip from a defective but still hopeful democracy toward a system in which the few corruptly govern the many, something between autocracy and oligarchy." 4/
"Instead of serving as a guardrail against going over that cliff, our Supreme Court has become an all-too-willing accomplice in that disaster."
"Worse, measures the court has enabled will fundamentally change the court and the law for decades." 5/
"Worse, measures the court has enabled will fundamentally change the court and the law for decades." 5/
"Offsetting the way the court has been “packed” in an antidemocratic direction with added appointments leaning the other way is the most significant clearly constitutional step that could be taken quickly." 6/
"[J]udicial independence does not mean judicial impunity, the illusion of neutrality in the face of oppression, or a surface appearance of fairness that barely conceals the ugly reality of partisan manipulation." 7/7
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