Tag: court packing

Pro-Life Movement Makes Gains Amid Shifting Abortion Landscape

Nearly one year after the Supreme Court’s historic reversal of Roe v. Wade, states across the country are still hashing out where they stand on the issue of abortion. This week, the popular stance has been to increase protections for the unborn. In South Carolina, for instance, after hours of voting down hundreds of Democrat…


US Constitution Should Include Amendment Stating the Supreme Court Has 9 Justices, Proponents Say

As Democrats promote legislation to add four justices to the Supreme Court, a bipartisan countereffort is moving to ban court packing permanently. “We think it could be a really critical issue in the 2022 elections,” Roman Buhler told The Epoch Times. Buhler, an attorney and longtime political adviser, is executive director of Keep Nine, an organization…


Senate Democrats Divided Over House Democrats’ Plan to Expand SCOTUS

As House Democrats tout a renewed effort to expand the Supreme Court (SCOTUS), Senate Democrats remain divided on both the feasibility and value of the scheme. The plan, contained in Rep. Hank Johnson’s (D-Ga.) Judiciary Act, would add four new seats to SCOTUS. The renewed push to pack the bill comes in the wake of…


Progressives Upset with Biden Commission’s Draft Report on Court-packing

Left-wing lawmakers are angered by the draft report put out by the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (PCSCUS) on expanding the Supreme Court. Progressive members of the House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) said the commission’s report is insufficient and Democrats need to pass…


Liberals Divided on Court Packing Following Texas Abortion Law Decision

News Analysis Following the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision late Wednesday night to deny an emergency injunction against a Texas abortion bill, some abortion advocates are reigniting longtime liberal cries to add new justices to the Supreme Court. But there is far from a consensus on this front from prominent Democrats. Democratic officials quickly responded to…


Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Debates Over Justice Term Limits

President Joe Biden’s Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court held its second meeting Wednesday, with some scholars pushing for term limits for justices, limiting the high court’s power, or adding more seats to the court. The whole day meeting was held online, with experts divided into four panels to discuss a broad range of reform…


Packing the Supreme Court: An Attempt to Stamp out Religious Liberty?

Commentary If Democrats succeed in packing the U.S. Supreme Court with progressives, as is their wont, what freedoms now protected by a conservative majority will they first try to cancel? Gun ownership? “Deplorable” voices on social media? Citizen United’s free speech protections? So much to undo, so little time to do it, before losing control…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (April 22)

Senate Republicans officially propose an infrastructure plan that’s less that half the cost of President Joe Biden’s plan, 20 state Attorneys General urge President Biden not to expand the Supreme Court, and Biden announces an ambitious goal at a two-day virtual climate summit.


Arizona AG Urges State’s Democratic Senators to Oppose Court-Packing Proposal

Arizona AG Mark Brnovich wrote a letter to two Democrats on Tuesday, urging them to reject a proposal to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 seats.


Democrat Efforts to Expand Supreme Court ‘Biggest Assault’ on the Rule of Law: Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said this week that efforts to expand the Supreme Court will likely “destroy” the rule of law and politicize the judiciary. “It will destroy the rule of law as we know. This is the biggest assault on the rule of law and the independent judiciary in my lifetime,” Graham told Fox…