The United States Supreme Court is the most powerful and respected tribunal in world history. It commands the power of judicial review to invalidate acts of the president or Congress. Its relative impartiality, compared with the legislative and executive branches, finds expression in consistently higher public confidence ratings. The number of justices has remained at nine since 1869, making it a quasi-constitutional norm. The sole serious political attack on the independence of the Supreme Court by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 proved DOA despite his landslide victory over Republican nominee Alf Landon in 1936.

In other words, the Supreme Court needs no fixing, notwithstanding Democratic Party support for 18-year term limits or altering the number of justices.

The media customarily and mistakenly portrays the court as ideologically or politically polarized like the Republican and Democratic parties or Congress. The most common ideological or philosophical split is 6-3: Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett generally tilt to the right, while Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson generally tilt to the left. Yet during October Term 2025, 44 percent of the court's signed........

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