“We agree with our esteemed Advisory Board member Rinaldo Brutoco, President of the World Business Academy, our longtime Partner. The Supreme Court does need overhauling. In truth, Mitch McConnell has done most of the recent court-packing, with seating over 200 young judges, many unqualified to the appellate courts, as well as helping Donald get his 3 appointees to the Supreme Court. To save the Court’s reputation, reforms will now be needed. We favor term limits and many of the proposals of Pete Buttigieg and others.
~Hazel Henderson, Editor“
P E R S P E C T I V E S:
Packing the Court? Reform is Better than Revolution.
By Rinaldo S. Brutoco |
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| The following Perspectives column was published in the November 5, 2020 (online and printed) edition of the Montecito Journal as well as on the World Business Academy website.
What does it mean to “pack the court”? Despite popular misconceptions, the first “court packing” occurred in 1801 when Federalist John Adams stayed up all night signing dozens of judicial appointments in order to pack the entire Federal judiciary so that his successor, Thomas Jefferson, couldn’t appoint any. Many significant “court packing” incidents occurred from then through the Civil War (it went from nine Justices to ten in 1863, then back to nine in 1869), until 1937 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to expand the Court to 15 Justices. Continue reading… |
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