E.J. Dionne is the kind of a pious-minded, mild-mannered, but decent liberal columnist who has frustrated me in the past. He has spent a long career being gulled into making Republicans look moderate by his pairing with his supposed analog, David Brooks on tv and NPR. Today in the Post, though, he advocates the investigation and, in so many words, the necessary impeachment of Kavanaugh. But that’s not all. Beyond that, he urges we pack the courts:
If Democrats take control of the House, they should hold hearings on the administration’s manipulation of the FBI investigation. These could also shed light on the extent to which Kavanaugh misled the Senate.
And there should now be no squeamishness about the urgency of enlarging the Supreme Court if Democrats have the power to do so after the 2020 elections. The current majority on the court was created through illegitimate means. Changing that majority would not constitute politicizing the court because conservatives have already done this without apology.
This is a simple, obvious, elegant remedy to the Republican theft of two seats. Bigger is better.
We should be galvanized that a major syndicated columnist is calling the Republican seizure of the Court a coup and is urging a solution not reached for in over a century. This hits the spot. It beats the mewlings and maunderings of other columnists and editors pleading, like abused spouses, for equitable treatment from an animal like Kavanaugh.