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"Packing the court" has a very specific meaning in the US, so it may be different in the Kings's English, but here it means filling courts with more judges for
by sickofparadox 2y ago
"Packing the court" has a very specific meaning in the US, so it may be different in the Kings's English, but here it means filling courts with more judges for the purpose of ideologically outnumbering the other side. The US does not have a set size for its Supreme Court, but the number of Justices has remained (more or less) 9 for the whole modern history of the US.
Also the Alito's wife thing is a great example of the media effort to undermine the legitimacy of the Court. By fabricating a narrative that an upside down American flag or the Pine Tree flag are "dedicated symbols of January 6th" or some nonsense, the media further damages the credibility of the court. The truth of the matter is, Alito's wife flew the flag upside down as a kind of SOS about a neighborhood dispute. Upside down flags equaling distress have been a standard that I learned about as a child. The Pine Tree flag has a huge history going back to the Revolutionary war, and has been flow at every kind of event conceivable. Simply being flown on January 6th does not mean that Jan 6thers suddenly own it, any more than BLM owns it, or a music festival or county fair own it.