No norms: The second liberals stop getting their way, they want to pack the court

There is no version of the Supreme Court that Democrats and their supporters in the press will be happy with that is not explicitly liberal and explicitly pro-Democratic Party.

In their minds, it is either a court of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson-types advocating for the most obviously unconstitutional policies that favor Democratic power, or the court is illegitimate and its rulings are anti-democracy.

Never mind the conservative justices’ histories of voting with the court’s liberal bloc — a phenomenon that goes the other way much less frequently. Never mind also that this court has ruled many times against the Trump administration’s executive overreach.

For liberals, it’s all or nothing.

We’ve seen this narrative play out these past several years. When the press are not outright mischaracterizing Supreme Court rulings in ways that come just shy of libelous, fringe left-wing commentators, who are increasingly the mainstream of the liberal commentariat, are calling for the court to be reformed, packed, or for conservative justices to be impeached.

Just look at the wild-eyed reaction to the court’s decision last week in Louisiana v. Callais. The justices ruled 6-3 that Louisiana had acted outside its legal authority when it gerrymandered a congressional district along racial lines. Put more simply, the Supreme Court held that legislators cannot engage in race-based gerrymandering because such practices are themselves a form of racial discrimination.

That seems straightforward enough. Yet you would think, based on the press coverage, that the court had repealed the 14th amendment.

“The Supreme Court struck down a majority black congressional district in Louisiana, weakening a landmark voting rights law’s protections against discrimination in redistricting,” declared the Associated Press.

Reported NPR: “The U.S. Supreme Court strikes another........

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