I mean, that's pretty much how I felt until a few weeks ago. It is fun to think about justices in terms of exponential growth and carrying capacity :p

Legit though, it seems like the two alternatives are:

Illegitimate partisan court that ping pongs every time a new party takes control

or Illegitimate partisan court that is extremely republican forever

imo it was already on shaky ground in 2000 when they just up & decided who would be the president. and when Obama was completely denied any pick at all was the beginning of the end but omg

Just this month, they've decided which gerrymandered maps are allowed on purely partisan grounds. They've ruled in ways against the 4th and 1st amendments several times in ways that no possible reading of the constitution could justify. Overturned almost a century of precedent that was upheld just 2 years ago wrt Native American sovereignty.

Maybe impeach + replace is better than packing? Keeps the numbers down at least.

And vaguely related to the house of representative thing, oh man, it's never going to happen but I did see a proposal for expanding the house to somewhere around 10,000. Every town or village would have at least one, people would vote online from the comfort of their homes, you could legitimately know your representative personally and they could still live locally instead of uprooting everything to move to DC,