FDR attempted to pack the Supreme Court with an additional justice for each sitting justice aged 70 or over, for a total of fourteen. The bill in Congress seemed to be on its way to passage when the Court made two decisions in favor of New Deal programs and one of those was by a majority including the youngest justice (aged 60).
“A switch in time saved nine” went the joke. The bill lost steam & was tabled.
Any court packing attempt today would require a President of demonic charisma to push it through Congress. Attempting to shift the Court’s ideological makeup in this fashion would be so obvious as to doom it from the outset, IMO.
I.e., first the Left has to GET back into power. They are not inevitable.
>> Any court packing attempt today would require a President of demonic charisma to push it through Congress <<
Not so sure. I think it would only require 218 votes in the House, 50 votes plus the VP in the Senate, and a willing (even if passive) POTUS.