Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Mark Copelovitch
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“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)
Today in yet another episode of "in any normal, functioning parliamentary system, the no confidence vote would already have taken place/been threatened & we'd have a new prime minister within the week"
Once again, I ask, without being overly alarmist & while being fully aware of the limits of the authoritarians' power, what anyone has seen since January 2025 to believe that the 2026 elections will be free, fair, & democratic by any normal standards of those words?
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Once again:
And again, in response to the inevitable "but that's illegal & they can't do that" replies:
