Harris , Gillibrand and Warren endorse packing the Supreme Court

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Chickens coming home to roost may make for a great talking point, but the fact of the matter is that we are going to keep descending into the abyss of hell until someone takes a step back and says hey we need to come together and find a better way. The alternative will inevitably be civil war otherwise.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

> Cites a threat of eventual Civil War from court packing
> Is responded to with an example from the Civil War

Someone didn't get the point.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I would also note that Lincoln believed in reasonable restraint of the popular majority and I would also point out that he opposed the concept of Popular Sovereignty as espoused by Douglas and Lewis Cass, which in an of itself was both arbitrary and also undermined the the legitimacy of the court.

I would also point out that both in the examples of Indian Removal, where the Supreme Court was ignored by the President and in Dred Scott where the executive branch meddled in the judiciary branch and the result was a ruling that ignored both history and precedent, were examples of the Supreme Court being corrupted by both politics and the bias of a given era.

And Lincoln did not ignore those precedents, hence why he pushed for the adoption of the 13th Amendment, because he knew a court could overturn the Emancipation Proclamation after the war.