Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is right about one thing: The Supreme Court has a legitimacy problem. He is wrong about what to do about it.

The House minority leader recently called for “dramatic” Supreme Court reform and refused to rule out expanding the court or imposing term limits on justices. His argument reflects Democrats’ growing frustration with a court whose conservative majority has produced decisions the Left strongly opposes.

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Republicans are right to reject the idea that the solution to an unpopular Supreme Court is simply to give Democrats more seats to fill.

But conservatives should resist an easier temptation, too: pretending that the court’s legitimacy problem is entirely a Democratic creation. It isn’t.

The deeper problem is what happens when political power becomes the pathway to controlling the Supreme Court.

Both parties increasingly treat the court as something to capture, rather than an institution whose authority depends on being perceived as independent of the politicians who helped shape it.

The public has noticed. Confidence in the court has fallen dramatically. Gallup found in July that just 33% of Americans approved of the way the Supreme Court was........

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