20 Republican AGs oppose efforts to alter the Supreme Court
District of Columbia | April 22, 2021
The AGs warned that court-packing could ‘shake the foundations’ of the government
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 19 other Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to President Biden and congressional leaders opposing efforts to alter the makeup of the Supreme Court.
Biden has already announced the formation of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, which will explore potential court reforms and address issues, including the size of the court. Days later, Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill to expand the court from nine justices to 13.
“We believe that such actions will seriously undermine our constitutional system, the public’s confidence in our courts, and the rule off law,” the attorneys general said in their letter, which was addressed to Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
The letter pointed to why the country’s Founding Fathers made a point of having an independent judiciary.
“The Framers created a strict separation of the judicial power from the other branches of government because the colonists had been subjected to judicial abuses by the Crown,” the letter said. “The judicial branch and the judicial power created by Article III was to prevent the new federal government from repeating those abuses.”
The letter went on to address recent accusations from Democrats that the Supreme Court – which currently has a 6-3 majority of justices who were appointed by Republican presidents – has been politicized…
(Excerpts from Fox News)