The current outrage is that President Trump might seek to appoint judges who are in line with his MAGA agenda. This pearl clutching lacks any sense of history. Let's jump back about nine decades to the Democratic party's favorite modern president.
The centerpiece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic agenda was the New Deal. Roosevelt and New Dealers in Congress enacted statutes and reforms that clearly violated settled Supreme Court precedent. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Supreme Court halted several planks of his federal platform, as well as analogous state legislation.
FDR was so incensed by these rulings that he considered amending the Constitution to grant the federal government more powers. When that process seemed too difficult, he instead proposed the Court packing bill, to ensure there would be more Justices who supported his agenda. Ultimately, that plan never came to pass. Justice Owen Roberts, for one reason or another, began to uphold New Deal legislation. And soon enough, the Four Horsemen retired.
