Noah Feldman, Columnist

Don’t Pack the Supreme Court, Democrats. You’d Live to Regret It.

There are ways to pay back Republicans for rebuffing Merrick Garland that wouldn’t subvert the rule of law.

March 28, 2019 at 3:59 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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Democrats are starting to sound serious about expanding the Supreme Court in hopes of reversing its rightward march. They need to stop. Court packing would be bad politics and something worse: a threat to the rule of law.

It’s OK to block nominees from the other party on ideological grounds. It’s wrong to destroy the structure of judicial independence that has been built up brick by brick since 1787.