Meaning of court packing | Babel Free

Definitions

A change to the number of justices that make up a court of law, in particular the US Supreme Court.

uncountable

Examples

“We understand these objections; until recently, we shared them, and dismissed court packing as institutionally corrosive and politically unserious. But no longer. The current battle over the Supreme Court changes the calculus; if [Amy Coney] Barrett is confirmed and Trump loses the election, adhering to norms and accepting the status quo on January 20 poses a greater harm than expanding the Court would.”

“And now there are still plenty of stinging critiques of the court from the right, but there’s also a substantial movement from the political left that raised possibilities of court packing, adding justices to the Supreme Court, stripping the court of jurisdiction and other things in the Biden era.”

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