The Constitution leaves it to Congress to say how many justices there shall be. So, we could leave this issue of the Democrats stacking the court at that: It is Constitutional, so it's okay.
But, politicizing the court is clearly not good. Already, the austere body of justices are under great influence to be either conservative or liberal. This should not be.
We cannot simply pass a law, limiting the number of justices to, say, nine. There would be nothing stopping a future Congress from simply dumping that law and going ahead with the stacking of the court.
If we can see it is not good to stack the court politically, we should do something about it.
And, that means an Amendment. What else can be done? We should amend the Constitution so it says there be a specified number of justices.
One wonders if a second amendment should also be considered, one taking politics out of the court, hopefully entirely. This could only be done if we take the appointment process away from the president and do not leave it in the hands of those who desire to make it a political appointment. That means, the courts, themselves, would be left to make the appointments. One option would be for the chief justice to nominate and the other justices to confirm. Or, you could have the appointment process done by the appellate courts.
We should see that the politicization of the court is not good. If we can do something about it, we should. When something breaks, you fix it.
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