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"But make no mistake: In voting to submit the report to the president neither of us cast a vote of confidence in the Supreme Court itself. Sadly, we no longer have that confidence, given three things: first, the dubious legitimacy of the way some justices were appointed; second, what Justice Sonia Sotomayor rightly called the 'stench' of politics hovering over this court's deliberations about the most contentious issues; and third, the anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian direction of this court's decisions about matters such as voting rights, gerrymandering and the corrupting effects of dark money.

"Those judicial decisions haven't been just wrong; they put the court - and, more important, our entire system of government - on a one-way trip from a defective but still hopeful democracy toward a system in which the few corruptly govern the many, something between autocracy and oligarchy. Instead of serving as a guardrail against going over that cliff, our Supreme Court has become an all-too-willing accomplice in that disaster."

-- Nancy Gertner (ngertner) and Laurence H. Tribe (tribelaw), "Opinion: The Supreme Court isn’t well. The only hope for a cure is more justices", Washington Post, 2021-12-09