Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson wants the number of justices in the Supreme Court to expand, a proposal some experts believe will compromise trust in the judiciary.
“We need to see expanded courts from the lower courts all the way up to the Supreme Court. We need to see term limits,” Johnson said in a May 14 interview with MSNBC. The reason why the abortion provider is calling for changes to the Supreme Court is owing to attacks on “our democratic rights and our democratic freedoms,” she said while specifically highlighting the “attack on abortion rights.”
In June last year, the Supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the federal right to abortion, drawing widespread protests. At present, the Supreme Court has a 6–3 conservative majority….