Somebody in the White House woke up over the weekend and discovered that they had been transported to the golden sunshine and verdant fields of DGAF Island. After several decades spent in the throes of Institutional Love as regards the Supreme Court, the president who, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, couldn’t bring himself to investigate fully the entire array of charges against Clarence Thomas, and who oversaw the elevation of William Rehnquist to Chief Justice and the virtually unanimous installation on the Court of Antonin Scalia, now has called for the most sweeping reform of the Supreme Court since FDR tried to pack it. Or, perhaps, since the Judiciary Act of 1801. And he is not shy about the reasons why.
