And so it begins. Democrats have been talking about trying to pack the U.S. Supreme Court since Trump became president, but now, one of them is actually trying to do it.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) claims his legislation is intended to improve the court’s public image. That would be the same public image that Democrats and the media have been smearing with negativity for years now.
The Washington Post is all too happy to push Wyden’s narrative:
Sweeping bill to overhaul Supreme Court would add six justicesA sweeping bill introduced by a Democratic senator Wednesday would greatly increase the size of the Supreme Court, make it harder for the justices to overturn laws, require justices to undergo audits and remove roadblocks for high court nominations.The legislation by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is one of the most ambitious proposals to remake a high court that has suffered a sharp decline in its public approval after a string of contentious decisions and ethics scandals in recent years. It has little chance of passing at the moment, since Republicans have generally opposed efforts to overhaul the court.Wyden, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said the goal of the bill is to restore public confidence in a battered institution. He said he hopes to get parts of the bill passed, even if the whole package is not embraced by lawmakers.“It’s not an atomic secret that the process for selecting justices is politicized,” Wyden said. “You’ve got this thoroughly politicized process resulting in a Supreme Court that now frequently issues sweeping rulings to overturn laws and upend precedents. We are proposing a way to restore some balance between the three branches of government.”The bill’s most significant measure would increase the number of justices from nine to 15 over the course of 12 years. The staggered format over two or three administrations is aimed at diminishing the chance that one political party would pack the courts with its nominees.During the rollout, each president would approve justices in the first and third year of their terms.
This is a classic case of Democrats trying to change the rules because the current situation does not benefit them politically. No one believes the Democrats would be doing this if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election and appointed three progressive ideologues to the court.
The Daly Caller News Foundation has more:
Wyden’s Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act would expand the Supreme Court to 15 justices over 12 years. It would also increase the number of federal circuit courts to 15, adding more than 60 new circuit judges and 100 new district court judges…JCN President Carrie Severino wrote on X that the bill is “the worst attack on the Court since FDR.”Franklin. D. Roosevelt’s proposal to pack the court in 1937 failed after facing bipartisan opposition.Currently, conservatives have a majority on the Supreme Court, with six of the nine justices appointed by Republican presidents.Along with expanding the court, the bill would require the Supreme Court and circuit courts to establish a two-thirds majority to overturn laws passed by Congress on constitutional grounds. It also require the IRS to “initiate an audit of each justice’s income tax return” and release the returns within 60 days of filing.
None of this has anything to do with fixing the supposedly tarnished image of the U.S. Supreme Court. It is about fixing the court’s politics to favor the progressive left.
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