The Fickle Nature of Supreme Court Rule

Eric Medlin
4 min readJun 29, 2022

The Court giveth and the Court taketh away.

The Nine Old Men who drew FDR’s ire. Source: Smithsonian Magazine

Democrats once again are asking themselves what to do about the Supreme Court. Last week’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade has set off a firestorm of controversy. Democrats have been pushed to make all sorts of Court reforms to match the national anger at the loss of a constitutional right. They have discussed packing the Court, instituting term limits…

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites