4 Steps To Undo Republican Court Packing

We need more than just a couple of liberal Justices

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There is a lot of talk about “court-packing” by adding seats to the Supreme Court. That sounds like a good, quick solution to the problem of an overly conservative judiciary, but it’s not enough, in my opinion. Adding personnel to the top court in America won’t solve the bigger problems we have in the judiciary.

It’s important to remember that the lower courts have also been manipulated and need rebalancing. Moreover, the confirmation process requires reform. Mitch McConnell turned it into a power struggle between the Executive and Legislative branches and we need dramatic measures to make sure that changes.

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — and the unseemly haste with which the President and Senate are replacing her — begs us to examine how we put judges on the federal courts. Or, rather, how we don’t put them on the courts if the Senate leadership doesn’t want to do so. Over the past eight years, Senate Republicans have turned the procedure for confirming judges into a tool for installing ideological bias in the courts, even going to far as to subvert the President’s Constitutional right to appoint judges.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell openly admits that he blocked President Obama’s nominees…