Pack the Court!

A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion

De: Stephen M. Feldman

Narrado por: Kevin Moriarty

The United States Supreme Court has numbered nine justices for the past 150 years. But that number is not fixed. With the Democrats controlling the House and Senate during the Biden presidency, they could add justices to the Supreme Court. But would court packing destroy the Court as an apolitical judicial institution? This is the crucial question Stephen Feldman addresses in his provocative book, Pack the Court! He uses a historical, analytical, and political argument to justify court-packing in general and Democratic court-packing more specifically.

Republicans and Democrats alike profess to worry that court-packing will destroy the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as a judicial institution by injecting politics into a purely legal adjudicative process. But as Feldman’s insightful book shows, law and politics are forever connected in judicial interpretation and decision making. Pack the Court! insists that court packing is not the threat to the Supreme Court’s institutional legitimacy that many fear. Given this, Feldman argues that Democrats should pack the Court while they have the opportunity. Doing so might even strengthen the American people’s faith in the Court.

The book is published by Temple University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

"This book is an important contribution to public debate and the understanding of our Constitution and the Supreme Court." (Mark Tushnet, Professor Emeritus of Harvard University Law School)

"I cannot think of a better, or more timely, introduction to the ongoing debate about the U.S. Supreme Court and its future." (Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School and Department of Government)