Biden and Dems' Supreme Court packing an undemocratic power grab
President creates a commission to expand the court
By Scott Walker - - Thursday, April 22, 2021
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wisely said when asked about the size of the high court, “Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a long time.” “I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court,” she added. On this issue, she was absolutely right.
The latest efforts to expand the size of the Supreme Court of the United States should be viewed through political lenses. Last week, one of the major proponents of the new legislation — Sen. Ed Markey — stood outside the Supreme Court at a podium with a sign that read, “Expand the Court.”
Just a few years ago, Mr. Markey stood at nearly the exact same spot by a podium with a sign that read, “#WeNeedNine.” What changed? He liked the majority of the justices back then and he does not now. This was exactly what Ginsburg warned about when she said, “If anything would make the court look partisan, it would be that — one side saying, ‘When we’re in power, we’re going to enlarge the number of judges, so we have more people who would vote the way we want them to.”
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