“Virtually every member of the Democratic caucus except maybe one or two are for expanding the number of judges to dilute the conservative majority that exists today.”
Senate Democrats are holding another hearing on “Supreme Court Ethics Reform” on Tuesday, and it’s important to understand that this isn’t about ethics at…
a time when the court is facing a crisis of legitimacy. not only to the overturning of roe v. wade, but also reports of undisclosed gifts and payments made to justices and their families. are these comments helping or should the court be trying to repair its relationship with the american people? >> i mean, i think justice alito's comments don't help at any point. he seems to be in his feelings a lot about people questioning his rulings, let alone what his fellow jurist's on the bench think. here is the thing. when you are an unelected body of jurist's who make decisions affecting millions of americans, people are going to have questions about impartiality, opinions, court ethics should not be -- should be mutually exclusive, i think, from the dobbs opinion or any other opinion.
the way donald trump was able to reshape the court and the age of the current justices, if the idea is to dramatically reshape the supreme court to get different qualitative decisions, then you've got to have that conversation with the american people i think it's two separate conversations, but each of them equally important to have. >> brian, what is the current framing around -- i think the right successfully smeared it by calling it court packing is there an idea to rebrand it as corrective as court ethics? >> absolutely, nicolle the reason si think when and if this package ever moved, a supreme court reform package it would be termed an omnibus package. so many of them address different problems afflicting the court right now. we need term limits, strategically timing your retirement so the president can pick a supreme court justice that is of their party's
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