House Democrats to Unveil Bill to Expand Supreme Court From 9 to 13
A group of House Democrats is expected to announce a bill on Thursday that seeks to add four more seats to the U.S. Supreme Court, expanding it from nine to 13 justices.
The bill, which is slated to be dubbed the Judiciary Act of 2021, will be introduced by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), and Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.). Jones confirmed in a statement following a report about the planned move.
“Our democracy is under assault, and the Supreme Court has dealt the sharpest blows. To restore power to the people, we must #ExpandTheCourt. That’s why I’m introducing the Judiciary Act of 2021 with @RepJerryNadler, @RepHankJohnson, and @SenMarkey to add four seats to SCOTUS,” Jones wrote on Twitter.
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When the moderator of Breyer s event announced that those topics wouldn t be discussed, Breyer quipped he was concerned there would be nothing left to discuss.
Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch took part in a separate discussion made public Wednesday that was focused on civics education and its significance for national security. Both suggested the court itself is a good example for how Americans can disagree without resorting to personal attacks or heated rhetoric. This is the scariest of times and the most exciting of times, said Sotomayor, who has served on the court since 2009. We have a great deal of partisan, very heated debate going on. And that s not necessarily a bad thing. But it can turn into an awful thing, into something that destroys the fabric of our community, if we don t learn how to talk to each other.
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WATCH: White House Declines to Defend Justice Stephen Breyer from Left-wing Calls to Resign
9 Apr 2021
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki declined to defend U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Friday from attacks by left-wing groups that say he should resign because he is opposed to packing the Court with additional justices.
The question arose in the wake of Biden’s executive order announcing a commission to study the issue of court-packing.
As Breitbart News reported earlier this week, Breyer opposes the idea:
Justice Stephen Breyer, widely known as one of the three liberal justices on the Supreme Court, warned against left-wing calls to pack America’s highest court with additional justices in order to weaken the conservative majority, explaining during a Tuesday Harvard Law School address that it would “diminish” confidence among the American people.