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The senators expressed opposition to expanding the Supreme Court amid a push from Democrats to do just that.
A group of Republican senators on Thursday spoke in front of the Supreme Court in opposition to court-packing, a response to legislation Democrats introduced at a press conference last week to do just that.
Sens. Ted Cruz., R-Texas, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., railed against court-packing as an effort to rig the Supreme Court and pleaded with President Biden to buck crazies in his party who support the idea. Packing the court and tearing down the institutions that protect our rights is fundamentally wrong, Cruz said. He said the court-packing plan would destroy judicial independence.
People protest Donald Trump s travel ban from Muslim majority countries at the International terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, January 28, 2017. | Reuters/Patrick T. Fallon
The Democrat-led House of Representatives passed two bills in response to former President Donald Trumpâs efforts to stem illegal immigration and limit travel from countries tied to terrorist activity, the latter of which was pejoratively called a Muslim ban.
Even though President Joe Biden lifted Trump s travel ban by executive order in January, the House passed the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act, also called the NO BAN Act or H.R. 1333, by a vote of 218-208 Wednesday.Â
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“You didn’t see Republicans when we had control of the Senate try to rig the game. You didn’t see us try to pack the court,” said Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday. This simple fact is actually indisputable, but the left is coming out in force to dispute this.
Court-packing is defined by Merriam-Webster as “the act or practice of packing a court and especially the United States Supreme Court by increasing the number of judges or justices in an attempt to change the ideological makeup of the court.” Republicans simply have never attempted this. But if you listen to the left, the GOP is guilty of court-packing. How exactly? Well, I looked at the various things they claimed were “court-packing” and compiled them below. So, let’s review them and debunk the myth that any of these are court-packing.