Today, some conservatives see liberal critiques that extremists are threatening democracy as overblown, noting that Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress.
“Stop blaming it on these boogie men,” said Chuck Warren, a Republican strategist from Arizona. “I don’t think the Supreme Court justices are just sitting around saying, ‘We have to protect the white man.’ I don’t believe that’s happening at all.”
Concerns were so great that Biden established a commission to study reforming the Supreme Court. Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor, was among those on the commission, and he advocates expanding the court to counter the current conservative bent.
“The odds that we will really go down, the way other democracies have, are frighteningly real,” Tribe said.
Charles Fried, a Harvard law colleague who once argued cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the administration of Republican President Ronald Reagan, favors a different change: term limits that would convert the lifetime Supreme Court appointment to 18 years.
“There are people around, and I’m afraid some of them are on this Supreme Court, who want to repeal the 20th century,” Fried said.
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