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Julian Zelizer : Joe Biden said he didn't want to get off on the issue of expanding the Supreme Court .
Zelizer says Biden , ever the institutionalist, squashed the notion of rebalancing the court in the unlikely event that Democrats won unified control of D.C. He says Biden was wrong: Republicans had already packed the court, with a 63 -seat majority for a generation or more.
He says the court has overturned policy, law after law, stifling the Biden administration’s efforts on many fronts.
The Constitution recognizes the court’s role as guardian but leaves its oversight up to Congress .
Seven times between 1801 and 1869 , Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of 10 in 1863 .
The question of judges overreaching, and assuming executive power, was of deep concern to the Founders.
The concerns of 1937 , or of 2020 , about increasing the size of the court have now been neutralized by this court’s unprincipled overreach.
Biden and his team need to wake up. It is not enough to merely dissent, as Biden did after the decision in Trump v. U.S ..
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