Packing the supreme court is dangerous to the U.S.

Why Court-packing is the wrong thing to do

Antonio E. Holanda
4 min readSep 23, 2020

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The United States Supreme Court(SCOTUS) is the highest court in the land. Created by constitutional mandate, it’s the third branch of government, where both political bodies face each other on matters of legality and legislation. This judicial review allows the court to analyze acts from the executive and bills from the legislative, both federal and states alike, in what comes to its validity facing the constitutional provisions. The Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices are nominated by the president and appointed by the senate.

It wasn’t always like this, and it could be different yet again.

In the beginning, there was one Chief Justice and five Associate Justices. The number of Justices was linked to the number of court circuits in America until 1911 when the link was broken and the Court was stabilized in nine justices.

But the dispute about the number of Justices wouldn’t come back in the 1930s, during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Court Packing

History goes like this:

Franklin D. Roosevelt grew frustrated as the Supreme Court began striking down the New Deal laws he’d crafted to end the Great Depression

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Antonio E. Holanda
Dialogue & Discourse

Brazilian living in France. Academia: Law and Literature.