This week, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison endorsed one of the most radical and dangerous proposals in modern politics: court-packing. In a post on X, he joined a swelling chorus of Democrats, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), determined to sideline the Constitution to secure rulings that align with their partisan agenda. Even President Joe Biden, who long avoided the matter, embraced an alternative means of court-packing by seeking to force out Republican-appointed justices.

Few institutions in American life still command any significant level of trust, and the Supreme Court remains one of the last, with an approval rating nearing 50%, more than double that of Congress. But if Democrats succeed in packing the court, they will shatter what remains of its legitimacy.