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by
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Demand
Justice)
Well,
this
has
got
to
be
a
fly
in
John
Roberts’s
“I
swear
the
Supreme
Court
is
legitimate”
tour:
Marquette
Law
School
just
published
the
results
of
its
latest
survey
on
the
Supreme
Court
and
fans
of
the
Court
won’t
be
happy.
First
of
all,
overall
approval
isn’t
great
—
40
percent
of
respondents
approve
of
the
Court.
But,
in
a
post-Roe
world,
SCOTUS’s
tanking
polling
is
nearly
a
given.
What
truly
stood
out
is
that
a
majority
of
Americans
—
barely
at
51
percent,
but
count
it
nevertheless
—
now
support
expanding
the
number
of
justices
on
the
Supreme
Court.
I’ll
tell
you,
in
history
class
when
we
learned
about
the
New
Deal
and
how
FDR
tussled
with
the
Supreme
Court
over
the
expansion
of
executive
power,
I
never
thought
Court
packing
would
come
back.
…Then
again,
I
never
thought
one
party
would
callously
leave
a
Supreme
Court
seat
open
for
over
a
year
in
an
openly
political
move
to
steal
a
place
on
the
Court.
Mostly
people
also
probably
didn’t
expect
the
vitriolic
—
and
poorly
reasoned
—
decision
in
Dobbs that
stripped
millions
of
people
of
rights
and
launched
us
into
a
dystopian
reality
of
ever
worse
stories
of
women
who
can’t
receive
abortion
care
in
their
home
state.
Time
makes
fools
of
us
all.
Faced
with
lifetime
appointments
of
jurists
who
seem
way
more
interested
in
political
victories
than
in
rights
and
the
law,
well,
diluting
the
power
of
each
individual
justice
just
may
be
the
fastest
way
to
rebalance
the
Court.
And
it
looks
like
most
Americans
agree.
Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of
The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of
Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
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