court packing
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A change to the number of justices that make up a court of law, in particular the US Supreme Court.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We understand these objections; until recently, we shared them, and dismissed court packing as institutionally corrosive and politically unserious. But no longer. The current battle over the Supreme Court changes the calculus; if [Amy Coney] Barrett is confirmed and Trump loses the election, adhering to norms and accepting the status quo on January 20 poses a greater harm than expanding the Court would."
- "And now there are still plenty of stinging critiques of the court from the right, but there’s also a substantial movement from the political left that raised possibilities of court packing, adding justices to the Supreme Court, stripping the court of jurisdiction and other things in the Biden era."