Category: court packing

In the Rush To Socialism, Biden Is Channeling The Worst of FDR – Bullying The Supreme Court

Commentary The Democrats are undertaking a full court press in an effort to transform the American form of government into their big government dream. Their latest push includes an effort to pack the Supreme Court with what would be four liberal justices and a push to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate. In doing so,…


The Abiding Shame of ‘Packing’ the Supreme Court

Commentary In 2005, then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) delivered a Senate floor speech about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s doomed 1937 plan to “pack” the U.S. Supreme Court. FDR’s plan would have permitted him to add six justices, immediately securing a pro-New Deal judicial majority. But “in an act of great courage, Roosevelt’s own party stood up…


Conservatives Decry Efforts to Expand Supreme Court Following Bill Proposal

Efforts by House Democrats to expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court have been met by intense opposition by conservatives and moderates. House Democrats on Thursday ramped up their lobbying efforts to “pack the court” following their unsuccessful attempts last year to stop then-Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination from going through by introducing a…


Conservatives Decry Efforts to Expand Supreme Court

Efforts by House Democrats to expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court have been met by intense opposition by conservatives and moderates. House Democrats on Thursday ramped up their lobbying efforts to “pack the court” following their unsuccessful attempts last year to stop then-Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination from going through by introducing a…


Democrat’s Supreme Court Packing Bill Political ‘Takeover’ of Judiciary, Expert Says

Several Democrat lawmakers have announced a bill to expand the Supreme Court by adding four additional justices, which would “fundamentally compromise and undermine two branches of government,” according to an expert. “This would be the greatest takeover of the judicial branch by the political branches since America was founded,” said Thomas Jipping, federal judiciary expert…


House Democrats to Unveil Bill to Expand Supreme Court From 9 to 13

A group of House Democrats is expected to announce a bill on Thursday that seeks to add four more seats to the U.S. Supreme Court, expanding it from nine to 13 justices. The bill, which is slated to be dubbed the Judiciary Act of 2021, will be introduced by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Reps. Jerry Nadler…


Lost Liberties

Commentary If one can say the pandemic has had any positive side effect, it has been to help us focus on what the loss of liberties looks like. Such losses do not occur immediately but erode over time as people become increasingly comfortable with government claiming to know what is best for us. The Biden…


Harry Reid Warns Biden About Packing Supreme Court: ‘Better Be Very, Very Careful’

Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned President Joe Biden against packing the Supreme Court with more justices after the White House released a plan to create a commission that will look into making changes to the court. “We should be very, very careful in doing so. I have no problem with the commission,…


Former Sen. Reid Warns Biden About Expanding Supreme Court

Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned President Joe Biden against packing the Supreme Court with more justices after the White House released a plan to create a commission that will look into making changes to the nation’s highest court. “We should be very, very careful in doing so. I have no problem with…


Planning for Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Begins

Under pressure from his party’s base to pack the high court with additional justices, President Joe Biden is following through on his campaign promise to create a commission to examine possible reforms to the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, tried to pack the Supreme Court in the 1930s…