{"id":1469888,"date":"2022-05-10T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1469888"},"modified":"2022-05-10T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:15:19","slug":"will-democrats-try-to-pack-the-supreme-court-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-democrats-try-to-pack-the-supreme-court-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Democrats Try to Pack the Supreme Court if Roe v. Wade Is Overturned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fwill-democrats-try-to-pack-the-supreme-court-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned%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=1469888&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--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>So it\u2019s back. In the name of freedom\u2014\u201creproductive freedom\u201d in this case\u2014Democratic politicians are calling for a new form of tyranny.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/what-is-roe-v-wade-and-what-happens-if-it-is-overturned\/\">leaked opinion<\/a> to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/who-leaked-the-roe-v-wade-alito-draft-opinion\/\"> overturn<\/a> Roe v. Wade sparked more demands to pack the Supreme Court with enough justices to reverse the decision again. The idea had some support from congressional Democrats last year who were angry that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/the-real-reason-the-left-wants-clarence-thomas-gone\/\">Amy Coney Barrett<\/a> was replacing their liberal icon, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., sponsored legislation to pack the courts. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/will-you-qualify-for-joe-bidens-student-loan-debt-forgiveness\/\">President Joe Biden<\/a>\u2014who had called it a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-once-called-court-packing-bonehead-idea-terrible-terrible-mistake-1583763\"><span>boneheaded idea<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d when he was a senator\u2014did what you do in Washington when you want to punt on an issue. Appoint a commission to study it. The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SCOTUS-Report-Final.pdf\"><span>released a report<\/span><\/a><span> in December and did not recommend court-packing. It actually didn\u2019t recommend a lot of anything but offered an analysis of ideas that were already floating.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA stolen, illegitimate, and far-right Supreme Court majority appears set to destroy the right to abortion, an essential right which protects the health, safety, and freedom of millions of Americans. There is no other recourse. We must expand the court,\u201d Markey <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenMarkey\/status\/1521304604625059841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1521304604625059841%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailysignal.com%2F2022%2F05%2F06%2Fdemocrats-blitz-supreme-court-demand-court-packing%2F\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAdamSchiff\/status\/1521974619745538049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1521974619745538049%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailysignal.com%2F2022%2F05%2F06%2Fdemocrats-blitz-supreme-court-demand-court-packing%2F\"><span>hyperbolically tweeted<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201c<\/span><span>Codifying Roe isn\u2019t enough. We must expand the court.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Interestingly, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2022\/05\/04\/vance-wins-big-and-scotus-breach-rocks-washington-00029905\"><span>plurality of the public<\/span><\/a><span>\u201445%\u2014supports expanding the court in the wake of the leak about Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s draft majority opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization, while 36% object to court-packing, according to a Politico\/Morning Consult poll.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s highly unlikely the plurality backing court-packing has thought this through. Notably, more than 60% back either age limits or term limits for justices, according to the same poll. But these changes, which might be worth considering, would require a constitutional amendment. Unfortunately, the most threatening proposal to the constitutional republic is the easiest change to make. Such a proposal hasn\u2019t been fully debated and is largely the realm of activists and eggheads. But it has a history of failing to gain popular support even with a popular leader behind it.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s failed effort at packing the Supreme Court with like-minded friends has for decades been recognized even among the most progressive Democrats as an unseemly power grab and a black mark on his presidency. Apparently not anymore.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>A bigger point is that FDR had huge majorities in Congress, won two landslides by this point, and couldn\u2019t push this change. Biden won a relatively close election and the Senate is split 50-50 , with only a functional majority from Vice President Kamala Harris ability to cast a tie-breaking vote. Roosevelt, like supporters of expanding the high court today, was angry about outcomes as justices kept striking down New Deal policies.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Though a failed legislative effort, the high court began to be more compliant at the prospect of a power-hungry president blowing up the judiciary and began upholding New Deal programs. That might be the goal of congressional Democrats now. As radical activists march through the front yards of the homes of justices, Democrats in Congress could simply have found a separate intimidation tactic through legislation.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Even an idle threat is short-sighted thinking.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Markey might well claim his legislation would be narrow enough to not get so out of hand. He just needs enough justices to reverse all the bad decisions from Republican-appointed justices. That\u2019s all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s quite delusional if he thinks Republicans would not reciprocate, and when given the opportunity begin adding their own justices to reverse the bad decision Democrat-appointed justices have done. It\u2019s a little frightening to imagine how many justices the Supreme Court might eventually have under such a scenario.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Next to the ability to elect leaders, separation of powers is the most important element of a constitutional republic. No, the Constitution doesn\u2019t specify there will be nine justices. But if it became a given that every time a party controls Congress and the White House, it would add just enough justices to obtain favorable outcomes, then the entire point of an independent judiciary would be gone. Under such a bizarre structure, the Constitution could change every four to eight years, and the United States would be a banana republic.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Voting alone can\u2019t maintain a free republic. Separation of powers prevents a tyranny of the majority\u2014even if it\u2019s a fleeting tyranny that will eventually see-saw back to another majority.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/author\/fred-lucas\/\"><i><span>Fred Lucas<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>\u00a0is chief national affairs correspondent for The Daily Signal and the author of\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Abuse-Power-Three-Year-Campaign-Impeach\/dp\/1642935824\"><i><span>\u201cAbuse of Power: Inside The Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it\u2019s back. In the name of freedom\u2014\u201creproductive freedom\u201d in this case\u2014Democratic politicians are calling for a new form of tyranny.\u00a0 The leaked opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade sparked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}