Americans spent much of 2018 with their eyes trained on the Supreme Court—from its rulings on presidential travel bans and public employee unions to Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation battle, the most heated confirmation battle in modern memory. So it should be no surprise that many are talking about ways to reform the court.
Some Democrats even want to revive the most famous, or infamous, attempt at Supreme Court reform in history: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to pack the court with extra justices in 1937. In Philadelphia this week, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., said that court packing was “no more a departure from norms than what the Republicans did to get the judiciary to the place it is today.”
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