A straightforward read of this sentence is that *Bullock* is calling it depoliticizing, critics are calling it packing, and the AP is calling it the literal thing that it is. https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1315254934812659712

One thing about the literal action in question--adding members to the court--is that it's not actually very hard to describe in just a few words so if we *wanted* to we could avoid tedious wars over framing language altogether.

Liberals' current pivot away from "packing" highlights the tension between language deployed to provoke and be interesting ("actually, court-packing is good") and language designed to maximize salability. The former shifts to the latter as an idea's political prospects improve.

Just two years ago, David Faris wrote a book advocating for most of these now de rigueur reform ideas--each of them totally justifiable on normative grounds of political equality--and it's telling that he titled it IT'S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY. https://www.amazon.com/Its-Time-Fight-Dirty-Democrats/dp/1612197736/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=