re: Wapo: Democrats must consider court-packing when they regain power.

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This doesn't sound authoritarian or dictatorial at all.

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Days before a new National Assembly was to be sworn in with an overwhelming opposition majority, the country’s current legislature, dominated by the Socialist party of President Nicolás Maduro, voted Wednesday to approve 13 new judges for the Supreme Court in what critics say is an attempt to stack the court in the executive branch’s favor.

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The move enables the Constituent Assembly to supersede the country’s legislature, the National Assembly, which has been led by opposition parties since last year and is the only branch of government not controlled by Mr. Maduro.

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