Don’t pack Supreme Court – here’s the truth behind Democrats’ radical push for ‘reform’
Missouri | April 19, 2021
Only thing Democrats think needs to be reformed is number of liberal justices on the court
Last year, prominent Democrats attempted to stop the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court by threatening to pack the court in retaliation to her nomination. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told his colleagues that “nothing is off the table next year.” President Joe Biden made good on that promise with the creation of a 36-member commission to “reform” the court.
The only thing Democrats truly think needs to be reformed is the number of liberal justices on the court. That’s why the options the president wants his hand-picked Supreme Court czars to map out include packing the court with more members and setting term limits for justices.
Radical as it is, even that plan wasn’t enough for members of the president’s own party in Congress. They are now pushing legislation to add four seats to the Supreme Court immediately.
The commission was already more than a little problematic. It is heavily weighted toward academia and away from people who actually practice law. Of the 36 commissioners, all but a few are full-time law professors. One of the exceptions is the former head of the liberal American Constitution Society. No one on the commission is a historian. There are basically no experts in anything but constitutional law, which is only a small part of what the Supreme Court does − for example, the court just issued a huge ruling on copyright law in the case Google v. Oracle…
(Excerpts from Fox News)