In an NPR interview released on Tuesday, liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg disappointed the radical left when she opposed packing the court and imposing term limits on Supreme Court justices. Many of the front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination have advocated for one or both of those policies.

In the interview, Ginsburg said she was not particularly concerned about those seeking to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices. "The only way you could get that would be to amend the Constitution, and as you know our Constitution is powerfully hard to amend,” Ginsburg said. However, she expressed more concern about those who seek to increase the number of judges on the high court.

“Nine seems to be a good number and it’s been that way for a long time. I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea when Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court … [and] I am not at all in favor of that,” Ginsburg said.

In a survey from the Washington Post released earlier this week, the Democratic presidential candidates were asked, "Would you support adding justices to ‘pack’ the Supreme Court?”, 10 candidates said they were “open to it,” including Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg. When asked about imposing term limits on Supreme Court Justices, the same three front-runners said they were “open to it” once again.

Joe Biden, who likely doesn’t want the radical progressives raking him over the coals on another issue as they did with his Hyde Amendment remarks, went down as “unclear/no response” for both questions. Bernie Sanders opposed court packing and during the Democratic debate last month, he supported limiting terms by rotating justices in and out of the Supreme Court. As Ginsburg noted in her interview, this would require a constitutional amendment.

Court packing through an act of Congress would be constitutional, as the Constitution does not mandate a specific number of Supreme Court justices. However, it would still undermine the stability of our republic while making the Supreme Court as partisan as could be, and it has historically been avoided for that reason. If one party packs the court upon taking power, the opposing party could pack the court even more once it returns to power. Democrats who support the practice are foolishly thinking about their short-term policy interests alone and suffering from tunnel vision.

Ginsburg further upset leftist radicals this week when she praised Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh as "decent and smart." Earlier in the month, she applauded Kavanaugh specifically because his staff is entirely female, and the Supreme Court now has more female law clerks than male law clerks for the first time in history. "There is a very important first on the Supreme Court this term, and it's thanks to our new justice, Justice Kavanaugh," Ginsburg said. Ginsburg's comments serve as a stark contrast to the absurd character assassination Kavanaugh faced from leftists last year.

As much as I disagree with many of Ginsburg’s decisions as a judge, she has defended her interpretation of the Constitution, and she has principles. She deserves respect for that. The radicals leading the modern Democratic Party would do our nation a great favor to remember those time-honored principles instead of resorting to radical ideas.