When Yankees Pack the Court . . .

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Grover Cleveland became the "Veto President" when he set a record of 414 vetoes in his first term alone. In 1887 he rejected a bill to provide seeds for drought-stricken farmers in Texas. "I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution," he told Congress.

Justices, with their power, are "more dangerous" because "they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots." Jefferson had it exactly right.

If Democrats win and do "pack" the Court, conservatives should reject calls to retaliate in kind. The answer is not in manipulating the Supreme Court; the answer is in reducing its power.
-Ryan Walters

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