By Premiere Networks
Apr 16, 2021
BRETT: What is the purpose of this exercise that s happening with this court packing conversation? It s about redefining society, right? We can redefine the court, we can redefine the family, we can redefine. Heck, did you hear yesterday, Nadler and Jones and Hank Johnson and Ed Markey saying that the Roberts Court is this right-wing machine?
Are you kidding me? He protected. (laughs) He protected Obamacare on the slimmest of margins and redefined marriage. Tell me again about this right-wing court. Look, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in looking at this court packing situation, said this about the Supreme Court.
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In 2005, then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) delivered a Senate floor speech about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt s doomed 1937 plan to pack the U.S. Supreme Court. FDR s plan would have permitted him to add six justices, immediately securing a pro-New Deal judicial majority. But in an act of great courage, Roosevelt s own party stood up against this institutional power grab, Biden recounted 16 years ago. They did not agree with the judicial activism of the Supreme Court, but they believed that Roosevelt was wrong to seek to defy established traditions as a way of stopping that activism.
15 Apr 2021
Left-wing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer recently warned against leftists’ calls to pack the Court and before her death, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also voiced opposition to it.
In an address on April 6, Breyer said he aimed to “make those whose initial instincts may favor important structural or other similar institutional changes, such as forms of ‘court-packing,’ think long and hard before embodying those changes in law,” according to Breitbart News.
The implications would be immense and undermine citizens’ confidence in the courts and “in the rule of law itself,” the 82-year-old explained.
“If the public sees judges as ‘politicians in robes,’ its confidence in the courts, and in the rule of law itself, can only diminish, diminishing the court’s power, including its power to act as a ‘check’ on the other branches,” he noted.
In 2005, then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., delivered a Senate floor speech about President Franklin Delano Rooseveltâs doomed 1937 plan to âpackâ the U.S. Supreme Court. FDRâs plan would have permitted him to add six justices, immediately securing a pro-New Deal judicial majority. But âin an act of great courage, Rooseveltâs own party stood up against this institutional power grab,â Biden recounted 16 years ago. âThey did not agree with the judicial activism of the Supreme Court, but they believed that Roosevelt was wrong to seek to defy established traditions as a way of stopping that activism.â
In fact, Biden actually