OK, let’s test your hypothesis: after Pres. Trump’s nominee is confirmed, watch to see if the ever loonier libs introduce bills to add additional justices to the Court to achieve what they will call “ideological balance”.
They don’t have to succeed for your theory to be proven correct. We heard calls to abolish the Electoral College after Trump’s victory, so Court-packing wouldn’t be considered extreme. If a Court-packing bill appears in the next session, then your case is made.
Except....FDR’s court-packing attempt failed eighty years ago in 1937. The New Deal was his baby and he pushed hard to get more seats on the Court.
Have there been any attempts since then? I don’t know.
>> If a Court-packing bill appears in the next session, then your case is made <<
Not at all.
And in fact, I’m not trying to make a “case” of the matter. All I said originally is that the theoreticians of the Left are beginning to moot the idea of “packing” the SCOTUS, just as Lincoln did successfully and just as FDR tried but failed.
On the other hand, I’m sure these leftist professors and legal mavens know that it would be totally counterproductive to introduce legislation until/unless they control all three branches.
In the meantime, it may not be too long before an article appears in an Ivy League law school’s student-edited “Review” to explain in great detail how a new packing job can be justified and executed, once the Dhims are back in full power.