Democrats in both the House and Senate are working on new legislation to pack the Supreme Court with four new justices. The change would alter the balance of power in the current nine-seat court.
The bill is led by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-CA), Subcommittee chair Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY). In the Senate, the bill is led by Ed Markey (D-MA).
President Joe Biden announced last week he had created a commission to study increasing the size of the Supreme Court. Last year, Biden told voters they did not deserve to know his view of court packing.
The current Supreme Court includes six conservative and three liberal justices. Three justices were nominated and appointed during the four years former President Donald Trump served in the White House, flipping the advantage to conservatives.
Democrats already hold control in the House and have an advantage in the Senate with a 50-50 tie that includes Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker. With Biden in White House, all that remains is to take power of the Supreme Court.
However, justices are appointed, not elected. In addition, Supreme Court justices have no term limits. Justices often serve a decade or longer, leaving only due to health concerns or death.
The Democratic court packing plan seeks to eliminate this concern. By adding four justices, Democrats could potentially nominate and appoint four new liberal justices immediately. The move would give liberals a 7 to 6 advantage in the Supreme Court.
Changing the structure of Supreme Court, however, holds numerous concerns. Even former Democrat Senator Harry Reid (NV) warned last week that Democrats should be careful with trying to pack the Supreme Court.
“I think it’s — we should be very, very careful in doing so. I have no problem with the commission, but I think that the commission is going to come back and disappoint a lot of people because I think they’re going to come back and say, we should just kind of leave it alone.”
“I think it would be inappropriate at this time after that long history we’ve had in the country [to] have term limits for judges. I think that we better be very, very careful in saying that we need to expand the Supreme Court. I think we better be very, very, careful,” he added.
That’s one statement by a Democrat conservatives can agree with. The left’s goal should not be to change the rules, but to remain in power to nominate justice openings as they arise.
But for many on the left, this is too slow for their progressive agenda. Some have publicly pushed for liberal Justice Stephen Breyer to retire this year to allow Democrats to replace him while they hold power in Congress. Breyer is 82 years old.
Let’s hope the Democrats don’t get their wish. Those who desire limited government hope for less government influence, not more. Just because the left doesn’t get what they want is no excuse to change the rules.
Funny how democrats think they will swing the power of SCOTUS to their liking. Discounting the real authority is an eternal mistake.
The democrats are a complete disgrace. They want to ultimately control the United States forever. If they are successful in packing the supreme court with 4 more seats, those seats will be all democrat nominees. That will make the court 7-6 in favor of the democrats for possibly many years. While Biden is president, he is not running the country. His brain is not functioning properly so there is a staff of his that are making all the decisions for him pretending he is making those decisions. He is not. Probably within 2 years, he will be forced out of office due to mental incapacity making Kamala the President of our country. So far, all she has done is giggle and laugh at our country’s decisions and problems. Once she becomes president, if something happens to her, then Pelosi becomes our next president. Then our country will be in ruins. She would be a disaster waiting to happen.
What I don’t understand, is why so many people actually voted for Biden with his mental capacity. I know a lot of people hated Trump. But not the way he ran the country. Trump’s biggest problem is his egotistical personality. However, that ego never ever influenced his decision making for our citizens. He did a great job running the country. We paid less taxes and earned more take home pay. With this new guy, the American people will ultimately see that they will be paying a lot more in taxes. That will also cause many companies to have to close down as their taxes will also rise beyond their ability to make a decent profit. All of this will put our country into a Great Depression. I hope I am wrong about all this but I doubt that I am. People, please use your great mental faculties and give lots of thought about who to vote for in the next election. Do not consider the candidates ego or looks. Only consider their decision making ability.
For those of you that read this, understand that I am not a good writer. I have never posted anything before as my writing ability is nowhere near as good as most people that write things. I am a decent reader but I have a declining memory. I’m 78 and Dr told me my memory was getting worse. I was always decent with math but not with courses like history and geography that required a memory. Math was a subject that required logical thinking more than it required a good memory.
Anyway, I’ll shut up now. I hope whoever has read this will have a great day, weekend, and many years ahead.
Thank you,
Dennis
You are a great writer and the honest people that voted for the man that helped our country know what you said is true. Thank you.
You have made good use of your years on this earth & this USA. You are not alone in your political thinking, however, those of us who agree w/you, BETTER darn well make our voices heard, as THEY are already walking all over us. Let’s UNITE & keep us in a positive strong position for the good of every human being
Sir, your narrative, although not a grammatical masterpiece, is very well spoken. You (and your physician’s) opinion indicating your writing skills might demonstrate any decline, certainly do not detract one bit from how well you presented your opinion and understanding of the dilemma facing America today.
Your summation of where we are after a tragic 2020 election fiasco, and how American democracy will fail if we continue down our current path much deeper, is to be commended rather than critiqued for academic standard.
Thank you sir for your contribution.
Signed by a conservative Patriot American.
I smell a revolution coming.
The whole point of the Supreme court is it is not politically structured like all other branches of government. Even the writer here keeps playing this (so many liberal justices and so many conservatives). Its more complex than that. If it was they would have acted on the recent election constitutional violations. Those called conservative are actually constitutionalists. They believe the courts should follow what the constitution says not call it a living document that can change to fit ideology or be reinterpreted to say something else. The liberal judges are not so strict. Whats to stop a future majority of republicans from adding even more justices to the courts? Court packing is simply a way to get all the bad socialist laws the Dems want to put in place (such as HR1) from being over turned later. Make us a 1 party system. I have yet to hear the Dems say what the purpose is of more justices on the court. Probably because they don’t have a legitimate reason to do it. It would ruin our checks and balances system.
SCOTUS judge Roberts has allowed pressure from the left to decide whether or not to hear the case for election integrity, the steal, the dominion machine manipulation. Yes they want to pack the court so future cases will vote with the left not for improving the system. 9 judges is enough if there are decisions that wind up with a tie 4 & 4 the 9 judge will break the tie. Personally I don’t consider Robert a conservative or even a democrat, I just think he has no virtue. He caves to those who pressure him instead of making his own decisions based on facts and integrity of the law to hear merited cases especially election integrity.
IF the DemoncRATS pack the court, THEY cannot handle what will be in their future. Roberts will not be able to help them as the American people WILL drop the HAMMER ON THEM. they will ALL be thrown out and America will start over. Level headed Democrats better listen because they will share the blame with the left wingers.