{"id":101779,"date":"2021-01-26T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=101779"},"modified":"2021-01-26T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:24:24","slug":"eric-holder-urges-democrats-to-pack-supreme-court-says-federal-courts-are-stacked-with-ideologues-who-reach-rulings-based-on-stunted-mindsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-holder-urges-democrats-to-pack-supreme-court-says-federal-courts-are-stacked-with-ideologues-who-reach-rulings-based-on-stunted-mindsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder Urges Democrats to Pack Supreme Court, Says Federal Courts Are Stacked with Ideologues \u201cWho Reach Rulings Based on Stunted Mindsets\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feric-holder-urges-democrats-to-pack-supreme-court-says-federal-courts-are-stacked-with-ideologues-who-reach-rulings-based-on-stunted-mindsets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=101779&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at a Brookings Institute forum on court reform on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Holder urged Democrats to pack the Supreme Court during his presentation. Holder, a far left Obama appointee, told the audience the federal courts are packed with ideologues \u201cwho consistently reach rulings based on their stunted mindsets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By this, he means conservative judges who follow the US Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is there a path forward for court reform?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QzbR_tmxJcQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/26\/watch-eric-holder-urges-democrats-to-pack-the-supreme-court-brookings\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Breitbart.com<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Attorney General Eric Holder urged Democrats on Monday to pack the Supreme Court in response to what he called a crisis of \u201clegitimacy\u201d brought about by the appointment of a conservative majority.<\/p>\n<p>Packing the Court would involve passing legislation to add seats to the nation\u2019s highest judicial body, then using a simple Senate majority to fill the vacancies with liberals.<\/p>\n<p>Holder was addressing a virtual seminar hosted by the Brookings Institution, \u201cIs There a Path Forward for Court Reform?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The left has shown interest in \u201creform\u201d since President Donald Trump was able to appoint conservatives to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Holder began his presentation with what he called \u201cthree realities.\u201d First, he said, \u201cDemocrats and progressives, are, and have been, uncomfortable with the acquisition and the use of power.\u201d Republicans and conservatives, he said, were not.<\/p>\n<p>Second, he said, the Supreme Court and other courts had been \u201cpolitical bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And third, he said, the Supreme Court had largely upheld the status quo in its decisions, \u201csometimes in a way that is inimical to our founding ideals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the <strong>federal courts were stacked with \u201cideologues who consistently reach rulings based on their stunted mindsets.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2021\/01\/eric-holder-urges-democrats-pack-supreme-court-says-federal-courts-stacked-ideologues-reach-rulings-based-stunted-mindsets\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eric Holder Urges Democrats to Pack Supreme Court, Says Federal Courts Are Stacked with Ideologues \u201cWho Reach Rulings Based on Stunted Mindsets\u201d<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at a Brookings Institute forum on court reform on Monday. 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