Pack the Court! - A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion (Paperback)

The United States Supreme Court has numbered nine justices for the past 150 years. But that number is not fixed. With the Democrats controlling the House and Senate during the Biden presidency, they could add justices to the Supreme Court. But would court packing destroy the Court as an apolitical judicial institution? This is the crucial question Stephen Feldman addresses in his provocative book, Pack the Court! He uses a historical, analytical, and political argument to justify court-packing in general and Democratic court-packing more specifically. Republicans and Democrats alike profess to worry that court-packing will destroy the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as a judicial institution by injecting politics into a purely legal adjudicative process. But as Feldman's insightful book shows, law and politics are forever connected in judicial interpretation and decision making. Pack the Court! insists that court packing is not the threat to the Supreme Court's institutional legitimacy that many fear. Given this, Feldman argues that Democrats should pack the Court while they have the opportunity. Doing so might even strengthen the American people's faith in the Court.

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Stephen M. Feldman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	290
ISBN-13:	978-1-4399-2159-3
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Courts & procedure > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4399-2159-8
Barcode:	9781439921593

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