Court Reform: The Supreme Court Was Never Supposed to Matter This Much

Court Reform: The Supreme Court Was Never Supposed to Matter This Much

Over the past few months, legal commentators have railed against the evils of “black-robed tyrants” and unaccountable “judicial insurrectionists” who are “upend[ing] the popular agenda of a sitting president” and executing a “judicial coup.” There is no justification, one argued, for a system in which “crazy judges” can “block and freeze each and every executive action.”  You could be forgiven for mistaking the speakers for liberal pundits decry…