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Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., left, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., hold a news conference outside the Supreme Court to announce legislation to expand the number of seats on the high court, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, April 15, 2021.
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A Democratic proposal unveiled Thursday to expand the U.S. Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices has Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee quoting President Joe Biden to express his opposition to the idea.
Lee didn’t mince words when it comes to the notion of “court packing.”
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By Craig Bannister | April 9, 2021 | 2:56pm EDT
Sen. Joe Biden in 1983
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On Friday, President Joe Biden announced creation of a commission to explore expanding the Supreme Court (“Court Packing”), which would allow him to appoint additional justices and shift the balance of the Court – but, he didn’t always think this was a good idea.
When Republican Ronald Reagan was president in 1983, then-Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) declared the concept of court-packing a “bonehead idea” and a “terrible, terrible mistake.”
During a 1983 Senate hearing, Biden likened Reagan’s efforts to replace members of a commission to Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s court-packing push, a Fox News report explains: