Senate Democrats unveiled a new bill that would pack the Supreme Court by adding four new seats beyond the current nine seats, a move that could lead to the loss of the court’s current conservative majority. The legislation comes after President Joe Biden’s commission on Supreme Court reform failed in December 2021 to recommend expanding…
Democrat Bill Would Pack Supreme Court to Lessen Conservative Influence
Coalition Backs Keep Nine Amendment to Cap Supreme Court Membership
February 15, 2022
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A bipartisan group is pushing for the proposed Keep Nine Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would, once and for all, block efforts to pack the Supreme Court by fixing the number of members of the high court at its current nine. When then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, tried in the 1930s to pack…
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