Alex Aronson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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One last thing I'll say is that whatever reform we need to advance, we have to reckon with the fact that the broken political system this court created is still very much in play within the Democratic Party, which is deeply infected by the unlimited money in politics that Citizens United and before that Buckley versus Vallejo unleashed.
And so while we might know in our community here that something like court expansion is necessary, the chances of the next nominee sticking their neck out to advance that I think are very, very small.
And I think we have to, rather than just get upset about that, we have to work with it.
I actually think there are real reasons why the next nominee might not want to stay.
take their neck out on something like court expansion, even if it is something that they plan on ultimately trying to advance.
Because we enter this fight from way behind.
Our adversaries have spent 50 years cultivating a base that understands the power of the courts, and we simply haven't.
And if we start to advance the most aggressive, far-reaching reforms, we're going to walk into a propaganda buzzsaw.
We have talked about it in this conversation, the cultural and mythological attachments that so many in even the pro-democracy community attach to this court.
And I would just simply suggest that as we prepare for what must be an ultimate contestation for power against corrupt and authoritarian judiciary, we should be strategic about
about how to enter that fight with the most legitimacy and the most durable public support behind our cause as we possibly can.
And I think in a moment like this, where we all know that this is not tenable and we need something like court packing, it might feel good to demand that our elected representatives come out front and start calling for things like that.
But I would suggest that there are actually better ways to approach the challenge.
Yeah, I love Representative Kasten.
I think he's unique, not unique, but he's one of the few in the House and in the Congress generally who is willing to think creatively and to think about how to address these problems with powers that Congress has, I think, been too quick to ignore or leave collecting dust.
He understands the power that Congress has to set jurisdiction limits to create different structures of courts like he has proposed.
I think there's a lot of appeal in a proposal like he has laid out or like you were suggesting there.
We could have a 100 Supreme Court justices and random panels.
I think we could make a strong good government case for that.
I do have concerns that people would see through it.
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