Historian Kevin Kruse provides a great short history of FDR’s attempt to add justices to the SCOTUS in the 1930s and concludes that, contrary to popular belief, it was a success — although FDR didn’t add justices to the court, he did end up reshaping the court to be more progressive and fair, which was, after all his goal.
We’re a long way from having a progressive president or even a left-of-center president with the popularity that FDR enjoyed, but we have to play with the cards we have and that means now is the time to be serious about ways to change the current SCOTUS before the damage it is doing to this country becomes irreparable. Adding justices to the court would be one way to do that. Let’s do it.