Losing the People? Then Change the Rules, by Victor Davis Hanson

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May 5, 2022

The Poisoned Apple: Disney’s Fundamentally Flawed Kingdom, by Helen Freeh

May 5, 2022

The Left sees success only through altering the rules of governance or changing the demography of the electorate—or both.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, May 4, 2022

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. …

Court packing—the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes—used to be a dirty word in the history of American jurisprudence.

The tradition of a nine-person Supreme Court is now 153 years old. The last attempt to expand it for political gain was President Franklin Roosevelt’s failed effort in 1937. FDR’s gambit was so blatantly political that even his overwhelming Democratic majority in Congress rebuffed him.

Yet now “court packing” is a law school cause célèbre. It is hailed as a supposedly quick fix to reverse the current 5-4 conservative majority.

Recently, a rough draft of an opinion purportedly overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion in all 50 states was leaked to the media by someone inside the court. …

Losing the People? Then Change the Rules, by Victor Davis Hanson

Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: If Anyone Eats of This Bread, He Will Live for Ever

The Poisoned Apple: Disney’s Fundamentally Flawed Kingdom, by Helen Freeh

The Left sees success only through altering the rules of governance or changing the demography of the electorate—or both.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, May 4, 2022

Court packing—the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes—used to be a dirty word in the history of American jurisprudence.

The tradition of a nine-person Supreme Court is now 153 years old. The last attempt to expand it for political gain was President Franklin Roosevelt’s failed effort in 1937. FDR’s gambit was so blatantly political that even his overwhelming Democratic majority in Congress rebuffed him.

Yet now “court packing” is a law school cause célèbre. It is hailed as a supposedly quick fix to reverse the current 5-4 conservative majority.

Recently, a rough draft of an opinion purportedly overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion in all 50 states was leaked to the media by someone inside the court. …

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