I wish they would make up their damn “minds” cause the very last article I saw was singing the praises of court packing whereas the implication here is that it’s a bad thing. Guess it depends on who exactly is the one doing the packing.
Tucker covered this Friday. The RATs plan to use identity politics to pack the court. Saying their aren’t enough blacks, women, Hispanics, etc on the court - so they aren’t really packing, they are going to make the courts look like America ... God help us ...
This is just another deliberate attempt to conflate two very disparate meanings of a word into a single definition.
Packing the Supreme Court means, quite simply, increasing the number of Justices serving on the court so the balance of the decisions by each of the Justices is changed, and it is ALWAYS an increase, never a decrease of the number.
Technically, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court is definitely NOT “packing” the court, unless that is supposed to mean packing more originalists onto the bench while not replenishing the number of activist justices. More properly, this would be “stacking”, as stacking the odds in favor of maintaining the Constitution as written.