Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Kavanaugh fallout highlights 'court packing' debate" video.

  1. A larger court makes each justice less influential, but no less important, since a split vote allows a smaller proportion of the court to make the final decision. It's been the way it is for a long time, and allows for a natural obstacle to shifts in political climate. The dems make the court leftist, then reps get in and START changing the court makeup to the right. So the balance of the court gently (well, maybe sometimes not so gently) varies slightly around center. We don't require judges to have neutral political sensibilities, only to be skilled enough to deliberately neutralize their necessarily modest political sensibilities for the purpose of rendering an objective decision. Ginsberg seems to have lost much of this skill.
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