[bus man]

Then send an even bigger message by having someone like Ted Cruz introduce legislation to expand SCOTUS members from 9 to 13 allowing President Trump to choose 4 more Scalias to pack the court with enough conservatives to cause a century of lasting conservative effects.

Even at the height of his New Deal popularity, with the great majority of the country solidly behind him, Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme was shot down. I don't want to see Trump waste valuable political capital on something that will go nowhere and serve only to bog him down.

Yes, I know, there's nothing magical about the number 9 for Supreme Court membership. But even so, inflating the court is a non-starter.

[Hostage]

Good point, but the President does not need to respond to Cruz’s introduction of the legislation or the amendment. The Senate would not even need to call a vote on it.

But the news of its introduction could, like the news of FDR’s proposal, cause the judiciary to back down.

But the context was different.

FDR’s proposal to pack the court was not shot down, it was withdrawn by FDR because he got what he wanted which was the SCOTUS siding with him on his New Deal programs.