{"id":2213422,"date":"2024-04-04T20:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T00:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoopi-goldberg-and-sunny-hostin-rewrite-history-on-live-tv-claim-republicans-stacked-the-court\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T20:38:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T00:38:45","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-and-sunny-hostin-rewrite-history-on-live-tv-claim-republicans-stacked-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoopi-goldberg-and-sunny-hostin-rewrite-history-on-live-tv-claim-republicans-stacked-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin make bold claims on live TV about Republicans &#8216;stacking the court"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fwhoopi-goldberg-and-sunny-hostin-rewrite-history-on-live-tv-claim-republicans-stacked-the-court%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=2213422&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>During a live TV segment, &#8220;The\u2064 View&#8221; hosts Goldberg and Hostin stirred controversy by accusing Republicans of court-packing, while defending Democrats. This\u200b discourse arose from \u200da call for Justice Sotomayor&#8217;s retirement, with Goldberg critiquing the approach. The hosts debated historical \u200ccourt-stacking actions, \u2064highlighting differing perspectives \u200con the issue. During a recent\u200b live TV segment, Whoopi Goldberg and\u2063 Sunny Hostin from &#8220;The \u2063View&#8221; sparked\u2063 controversy by alleging that Republicans engage in court-packing while standing up for Democrats. \u2062The discussion stemmed from a suggestion for Justice Sotomayor&#8217;s retirement, \u200bleading Goldberg to offer her criticisms. The hosts delved \u200binto the history of \u2063court-packing, shedding \u200clight\u200b on contrasting viewpoints regarding\u2063 the matter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe View\u201d co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin attempted to rewrite history during a live television segment, claiming repeatedly that it was always Republicans, not Democrats, who \u201cstacked\u201d the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation began with ousted MSNBC host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/apr\/01\/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mehdi Hasan<\/a>, who recently called on liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step aside \u201cfor the sake of all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/apr\/01\/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court#:~:text=It%20is%20Sonia%20Sotomayor%20who,highest%20bench%20in%20the%20land.\">referring<\/a> to Sotomayor as the \u201cgreatest liberal to sit on the Supreme Court in my adult lifetime,\u201d he argued that she should do what the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not \u2014 much to the dismay of many liberals \u2014 and retire when she was guaranteed that a Democratic president and Senate would rubber-stamp a liberal replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg was not impressed with Hasan, arguing that he should be going after Justice Clarence Thomas instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting her off doesn\u2019t mean somebody else is going to get on and be better,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheView?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheView<\/a> shrieked at fellow left-winger <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mehdirhasan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mehdirhasan<\/a> for calling on Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DailyCaller<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6HLjGJdRcg\">pic.twitter.com\/6HLjGJdRcg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicole Silverio (@NicoleMSilverio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicoleMSilverio\/status\/1775908580832465325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Goldberg went on to claim that Democrats did not \u201cstack the court,\u201d arguing that Republicans were the only ones guilty of such action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats, we don\u2019t stack the court. We don\u2019t. We don\u2019t do that,\u201d she said. \u201cA lot of us wanted [Biden] to do that but he won\u2019t do that because that\u2019s not how you run the government, that\u2019s his feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Revisionist history and lies from ABC News.<br \/>Whoopi Goldberg declares: &#8220;Democrats, we don&#8217;t stack the court. We don&#8217;t. We don&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<br \/>FACT CHECK: False. Democratic President FDR stacked the court.<br \/>Sunny Hostin claims the GOP &#8220;stacked the court&#8221; by filling vacant seats. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gzz0OAq8iZ\">pic.twitter.com\/gzz0OAq8iZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1775909946053271987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Goldberg and Hostin then claimed that by filling empty seats, the Republicans had \u201cstacked the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite their claims, the only real attempt at \u201cstacking\u201d or \u201cpacking\u201d the Court came from the late Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the form of his <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/how-fdr-lost-his-brief-war-on-the-supreme-court-2#:~:text=The%20plan%20was%20to%20pass,own%20justices%20to%20the%20court.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937<\/a>. If that bill had passed, FDR would have been able to appoint one new Justice for every sitting justice who reached the age of 70 and did not retire.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712245447014000&#038;usg=AOvVaw259gdy9LGyeAJghxwMwQqU\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis plan of mine is not attacking of the court; it seeks to restore the court to its rightful and historic place in our system of constitutional government and to have it resume its high task of building anew on the Constitution \u2018a system of living law,&#8217;\u201d Roosevelt said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee delivered a scathing review of the plan, however, stating, \u201cThe bill is an invasion of judicial power such as has never before been attempted in this country \u2026 It is essential to the continuance of our constitutional democracy that the judiciary be completely independent of both the executive and legislative branches of the government. \u2026 It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a live TV segment, &#8220;The View&#8221; co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin made controversial statements accusing Republicans, not Democrats, of &#8220;stacking&#8221; the Supreme Court. 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