Some of your favorite presidents have tried to pack the Supreme Court. So why does it sound like such an extreme tactic? And how did some of the top Democrats running for president come to embrace it?

Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate’s legal correspondent. 

This episode originally aired in March 2019. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon.

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