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Getty Images CNS News -- Perhaps in anticipation of lawmakers' attempts to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said in a speech at Harvard Law School that "structural alteration" of the high court could erode the trust Americans have that the "court is guided by legal principle, not politics. Roosevelt Dwhose scheme to pack the Supreme Court to ensure his socialist policies would be upheld was defeated in Getty Images Justice Breyer used court decisions as an example to support his view.
Specifically, decisions made to end segregation during the Civil rights era. I hope and expect that the court will retain its authority--an authority that my stories have shown was hard won. But that authority, like the rule of law, depends on trust, a trust that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics. Trust in the courts without here our system cannot function requires knowledge. It requires understanding.
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It requires engagement. In a word, it requires work.
Work on the part of all citizens. Former Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgwho died last fall from cancer, was known as one of the most liberal members of the high court. But she also opposed packing the court. If FDR's plan had been put in place, she said, "the court's number would have swelled immediately from nine to 15, and the president would have six appointments to make. MRC Store.]
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