![Pakistan’s Chief Justice Undermines Supreme Court Credibility](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/07/Supreme_Court_of_Pakistan_Islamabad_by_Usman_Ghani.jpeg)
Imagine a system under which the U.S. Supreme Court hears cases as panels consisting of three to five Justices rather than as a full court of nine. Suppose that the Chief Justice makes a five-Justice panel consisting of himself, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Justice Elena Kagan to hear abortion [...]