Reframing Court Reform: From "Radical" to Essential
The Framing Problem Supreme Court reform faces a messaging crisis. Despite majority public support for term limits and other reforms, politicians treat it as politically toxic. Candidates fear being branded as extremists. Democratic leaders stay silent while the Court dismantles decades of progress. This isn’t a policy problem—it’s a framing problem. Court reform has been successfully painted as “court packing,” a radical attack on an independent judiciary. Until we reframe reform as what it actually is—defending democracy from a captured institution—it will remain politically unthinkable. ...