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Originally published on April 15, 2021 5:25 pm
Liberal congressional Democrats unveiled a proposal Thursday to expand the number of seats on the U.S. Supreme Court from nine to 13 a move Republicans have blasted as court packing and which has almost no chance of being voted on after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she has no plans to bring it to the floor.
The measure, the Judiciary Act of 2021, is being co-sponsored by Reps. Jerrold Nadler, chair of the House Judiciary Committee; Hank Johnson of Georgia; Mondaire Jones of New York; and Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts. We are not packing the Supreme Court, we are unpacking it, Nadler said at a news conference in front of the Supreme Court.
By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times - Thursday, April 15, 2021
Sen. Edward Markey on Thursday declared that the Supreme Court is broken and needs to be fixed, pushing his legislation to expand the bench with four new justices.
“The United States Supreme Court is broken. It is out of balance and it needs to be fixed,” Mr. Markey said on the steps of the Supreme Court. “Too many Americans have lost faith in the court as a neutral arbiter.”
The Massachusetts Democrat blamed former President Trump and Senate Republicans for holding a vacancy open in 2016 for Mr. Trump to fill it by appointing Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.
Bill to Facilitate Intellectual Disability Claims From Death Row Prisoners Advances Although a version of the legislation introduced by the Black Caucus failed, a similar Republican bill has support Tweet Share
State House and Senate committees have approved a bill that would create a procedure for Tennessee courts to hear the intellectual disability claims of some death row prisoners.
Prompted by the case of Pervis Payne an intellectually disabled Black man who was facing execution in December before he received a reprieve due to COVID-19 concerns the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators filed a bill aimed at preventing the execution of intellectually disabled people. As lawmakers, and Payne s attorney Kelley Henry, explained, the United States Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that the execution of people with intellectual disabilities was unconstitutional. But there is not a legal procedure through which a Tennessee court can hear a per
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