His legacy would be HB 2 and court-packing. Not enviable.

Not even FDR could pull it off.

He was mad that the Supreme Court overturned some of his New Deal programs. He tried to overcome that by packing the court with supportive justices, but Congress refused to go along with his ill-conceived scheme. It could not stomach an effort to manipulate the court for base political purposes.

Politics aside, enlarging our state court is totally unjustified. Its workload doesn't require more hands.

The court has produced only 25 full opinions so far this year, most of them less than 20 pages in length. That's only three to four opinions penned by each justice on average. If the court had nine members, each would be authoring three or fewer opinions in a year's time. Come on! Our court system is underfunded and understaffed, but not at the top.

The people of North Carolina should not stand for political court-packing.

Contact editorial writer Doug Clark at (336) 373-7039 and dgclark@News-Record.com.

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