A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, November 15, 2016. | Reuters/Carlos Barria
A little over two-thirds of Americans oppose the idea of expanding the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a new poll.
The survey of over 1,100 U.S. registered voters was conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, Inc. and sponsored by the conservative legal nonprofit First Liberty Institute, which is devoted to protecting religious freedom rights.Â
The poll gauged the opinions of voters about the debate over adding seats to the nine-justice Supreme Court days after President Joe Biden established a commission to look into adding justices to the Supreme Court.Â
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According to the Daily Wire, while Democrats are inconsistent in their opinions on court-packing, with their opinion depending on whether it’s Biden or Donald Trump in charge, Republicans and Independents have been consistently opposing it, according to a poll from Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy. Independents are strongly against court-packing, as well as doing away with the filibuster. That’s a positive sign.
Mason-Dixon pollster Brad Coker finds consistently strong opposition among independents to such plans for structural changes, and concludes that moderate and unaffiliated voters did not vote for Joe Biden in 2020 “to turn the government upside-down” or “remake America.” Rather, they were hoping he would bring calm and perhaps “less bickering” to Washington, he adds. …