Republicans have hijacked the US supreme court. It’s time to expand it | David Daley

If Amy Coney Barrett serves to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's age, she will be a justice until 2059. We must reform the court now, or risk it losing its legitimacy forever

When the US supreme court this week radically expanded the second amendment and declared most any restrictions on guns to be presumptively unconstitutional, then overturned five decades of reproductive rights and created a likely desert for abortion access all the way from Idaho to Florida, America's grim new reality became painfully clear.

An extreme conservative majority holds absolute control over the court. They will likely hold this power for multiple generations. They intend to use it to impose a far-right vision that most Americans oppose, twisting the rule of law into whatever they say it is, depending on the ideological outcome they hope to achieve.