Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Kevin Elliott
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And if you don’t like court packing, there’s always the other explicitly textual tool Congress has: jurisdiction stripping. Cut them down to deciding nothing more than original jurisdiction fights over water allocation on the Colorado river. I don’t think that’s the better route but it’s there.
“Court packing is never ever something you should do” is not a tenable position. It’s trivial to imagine a court so extremely anti-constitutional (and yet 34 senators won’t convict) where court packing would be the necessary lesser evil. The only question is if the Roberts Court is that bad. (it is)
Suppose SCOTUS decreed Catholicism is now the state religion. It would be absurd to say we have no choice but to submit so long as at least 34 senators won’t vote to remove them. Court packing is part of Madisonian checks and balances, it’s in the Constitution as a tool Congress has in extremis.
Just once, I would like one of these congresspeople to say “If you’re not willing to acknowledge reality about this, then I have no reason to trust you about anything else. I will vote no. I yield the rest of my time.”
don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer
EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking
If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people?
theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...
