Heather Cox Richardson On The Prospect Of "Court Packing" By Biden

Click here for an article by Heather Cox Richardson on "court packing." (It's a really good article on the history of SCOTUS appointments -- and the importance of the Powell memo in 1979, and the creation of the Federalist Society in 1982 -- cannot be underestimated.)

Here are a couple of interesting little tidbits from another HCR article:

Five of the 8 current members of the Supreme Court—Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh—and now Supreme Court nominee Amy Barrett, are members of the Federalist Society.

And:

Since the Nixon administration began in 1969, Democrats have appointed just 4 Supreme Court justices, while Republicans have appointed 15. 

Kind of shocking, no? 

(I'd have single-spaced the list, but with this new Blogger format, I don't know how.)