The legal system has arguably been imploding since Constitution-ignoring socialist FDR nuked the Supreme Court with activist justices in the late 30s and early 40s.
Actually, FDR failed in his attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court with additional New Deal-friendly justices. The Senate must confirm appointments then as now, and his subversive scheme was too much even for the Democrat controlled Congress of the late 1930’s.
Doesn’t diminish FDR’s record as an enemy of the Constitution, and at which LBJ nearly succeeded decades later.