{"id":2316239,"date":"2024-07-30T18:44:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T22:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-promise-to-save-democracy-by-destroying-scotus\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T22:48:07","slug":"dems-promise-to-save-democracy-by-destroying-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-promise-to-save-democracy-by-destroying-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Promise To Save &#8216;Democracy&#8217; By Destroying SCOTUS"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fdems-promise-to-save-democracy-by-destroying-scotus%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=2316239&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>The text discusses the Democrats&#8217; proposal for Supreme Court &#8220;reform,&#8221;\u2062 which is characterized \u200bas a cynical attempt to undermine the legitimacy of both the court and the \u2064Constitution. It argues\u200c that Democrats would not support court-packing if they believed Republicans would gain control, suggesting that \u200btheir motivations are purely partisan.\u200d The proposal includes an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-bill-would-impose-term-limits-on-scotus-justices-mandatory-replacements-every-two-years\/\" title=\"Democrat Bill Would Impose Term Limits On SCOTUS Justices, Mandatory Replacements Every Two Years\">18-year term limit<\/a>\u2062 for justices, which\u2063 could potentially shift the ideological balance of the court.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue\u200b that the left\u200c has normalized the perception that the Supreme\u200b Court is illegitimate when its decisions \u2062do \u200cnot \u2064align with their political views. \u2062They\u2062 contend that Democrats have long attacked the institution, leading to a\u2064 manufactured crisis of confidence in the court. While some polls indicate that a significant number \u2063of Americans still have \u200da good deal of \u200dconfidence in the Supreme Court, the piece argues that\u2062 calls for reform are\u200b unfounded and politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c article also criticizes Democratic lawmakers for\u200c ethical double standards\u2064 and posits that justices should not be subject to partisanship. It concludes \u2062by asserting that Democrats are primarily concerned with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-state-abortion-laws-put-supreme-court-under-the-microscope\/\" title=\"New State Abortion Laws Put Supreme Court Under the Microscope\">expanding abortion rights<\/a> rather \u200dthan \u200csafeguarding individual liberties, and it questions\u2064 the underlying motives behind their calls for reform.  <\/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<div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s difficult to sit here and make substantive arguments against the Democrats&rsquo; Supreme Court &ldquo;reform&rdquo; proposal, since everyone knows it&rsquo;s just a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/29\/biden-debuts-radical-scheme-designed-to-help-democrats-pack-the-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cynical ploy<\/a>&nbsp;to delegitimize both the court and the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself this: would any Democrat support the president&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-creates-commission-to-assess-effects-of-court-packing\/\" title=\"Biden creates commission to assess effects of court packing\">court-packing scheme<\/a> if they believed Republicans would win both Houses and the presidency? Of course not. It&rsquo;s Calvinball all the way down.<\/p>\n<p>And&nbsp;<em>it is<\/em>&nbsp;a court packing scheme. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/president-biden-supreme-court-reforms-july-2024\">unconstitutional<\/a> one. One imagines the term &ldquo;court packing&rdquo; hasn&rsquo;t polled very well with the public, so Biden &mdash; or whoever&rsquo;s running the White House these days &mdash; signed off on a backdoor plan. An 18-year term limit for justices&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JCNSeverino\/status\/1818299788351176756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">would<\/a>, very conveniently, turn a 6-3 originalist majority into a 6-3 &ldquo;living and breathing document&rdquo; majority that would overturn many recent decisions, and rubber stamp a slew of federal abuses.<\/p>\n<p>One might argue it&rsquo;s all just an election gimmick, since the chances of the reform package passing are close to nil. That&rsquo;s not the point. The left has normalized the notion that the Supreme Court is both illegitimate and corrupt if it fails to bend to the will of partisans.<\/p>\n<p>After all, none of the left&rsquo;s objections are grounded in anything resembling a legal argument. The entire case is centered around the specious idea that the court is failing because it does not adhere to the political vision of Democrats. They don&rsquo;t even pretend to care about neutrality in law, much less the law itself. The contemporary leftist is a consequentialist with no limiting principles.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of authoritarians. Kamala Harris&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/biden-unveils-plan-supreme-court-us-stands-breach-112361234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contends<\/a> that packing the Supreme Court is necessary because &ldquo;there is a clear crisis of confidence facing the Supreme Court.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Is there?<\/p>\n<p>First off, we find ourselves here because of a decades-long attacks on the institution. Democrats have made a mockery of confirmation hearings since the 1980s. After Barack Obama publicly castigated the Supreme Court for upholding the First Amendment, things really took off. Wealthy progressive activist groups began cooking-up pretend scandals and laundering them through faux journalistic operations. The media can now affix with the phrase &ldquo;plagued by ethic scandals,&rdquo; or some such nonsense, to every mention of the court.<\/p>\n<p>If there is any crisis of confidence, it&rsquo;s because the left concocted one.<\/p>\n<p>Even still, as Casey Mattox&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CaseyMattox_\/status\/1817953409271730673?t=YrG3TVuQ9D5_53oLFGQj4w&amp;s=03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helpfully points out<\/a>, Gallup finds that 30 percent of Americans have a &ldquo;Great Deal\/Quite a Lot&rdquo; of confidence in the Supreme Court. The number has risen slightly in the past two years. Another 31 percent say they have &ldquo;Some&rdquo; confidence in SCOTUS.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&rsquo;s set aside that pesky Article 3 of the Constitution for a moment. If polling is the excuse for stripping the independence of a branch of government, why would we allow Congress, with its 9 percent confidence rating, to do it?<\/p>\n<p>Justices already enforce a code of judicial conduct. There is zero evidence any of them have engaged in unethical behavior on the bench that personally benefited a third party, much less themselves. And there is no evidence justices have deviated from their long-held legal philosophies because they vacationed with a rich friend or any other reason.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also worth remembering that Democrats invented a bunch of new standards to smear Clarence Thomas that they would never follow themselves. Most judicial committee members leading the charge to delegitimize the court have traded in on their position to enrich themselves, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2014\/10\/04\/when-interests-overlap-for-durbin-lobbyist-wife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dick Durbin<\/a>, Vietnam War fabulist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/blumenthal-bought-robinhood-shares-as-he-called-for-congress-to-investigate-gamestop-trading-frenzy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Richard Blumenthal<\/a>, conspiracy theorist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/05\/14\/congress-stock-trading-conflict-of-interest-rules-238033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sheldon<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/sheldon-whitehouses-favors-11593645437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Whitehouse<\/a>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/dem-rep-sells-off-stock-purchased-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-after-being-confronted\/\">Peter Welch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, maybe SCOTUS should be writing ethics rules for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats want to institute their ethics code to create a system that allows partisans &mdash; armed with the newest garbage Politico or ProPublica churns out for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/09\/moral-force-propublica-under-fire-for-taking-millions-from-secret-donors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its progressive funders<\/a> &mdash; to slander justices in another congressional show trial and bogus investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, the Supreme Court is an equal branch of government. Chuck Schumer is free to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/08\/democrats-wanted-to-intimidate-justices-now-its-getting-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threaten<\/a>&nbsp;justices, but they still don&rsquo;t answer to him.<\/p>\n<p>Nor do they answer to Biden, whose family became wealthy peddling a shady influence racket. The presidency, incidentally, has a 26 percent confidence rating with Gallup. The media, deservingly, is near the bottom of the list. Americans, in fact, have more trust in the Supreme Court than they do state-run schools or unions or big business or banks or the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public&rsquo;s confidence in the court&rsquo;s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a breach,&rdquo; Biden says.<\/p>\n<p>The only &ldquo;personal freedom&rdquo; Democrats are concerned about is legalizing abortion on demand into the ninth month. Just say&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>, because I can&rsquo;t think of a single individual liberty the contemporary left wants to safeguard or enhance.<\/p>\n<p>Though, the president is correct in noting that the court has abnormally upheld the Constitution in recent years. Even then, majority concurrences are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/writings-show-conservative-justices-differ-even-when-in-majority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quite diverse<\/a>. And the notion that the textualists walk lock step more than the left is a complete fantasy, as the last session showed.<\/p>\n<p>The president, by the way, has been in government since 1973. Two thirds of the members of the Democrat-controlled Senate are now over 70. The judiciary chair Dick Durbin has been in Congress since 1982. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the lifetime appointments for justices are meant to shield the high court from the vagaries and fleeting pressures of political debate. Which is exactly what bothers the left the most: the Supreme Court doing its job. If we knew exactly when confirmation votes were going to take place, rest assured the process would degenerate into an even uglier partisan mess. Which, again, is exactly what the anti-norm leftist desires.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Democrats&rsquo; plan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/29\/biden-debuts-radical-scheme-designed-to-help-democrats-pack-the-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to pack<\/a>&nbsp;the Supreme Court, the last&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/04\/the-supreme-court-is-the-last-functioning-institution-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">properly functioning institution in D.C.<\/a>, is an attack on constitutional order, and its long-term consequences are far more corrosive than anything that happened on Jan. 6. It&rsquo;s not even close, really.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of six books&mdash;the most recent, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/the-rise-of-blueanon-david-harsanyi?variant=41551839232034\">The The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists<\/a><\/b>. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s challenging to present meaningful counterarguments against the Democrats&#8217; Supreme Court &#8220;reform&#8221; initiative, as it&#8217;s widely recognized as a manipulative tactic aimed at undermining both the court and the Constitution. Consider this: would any Democrat back the president&#8217;s plan to expand the court if they thought Republicans were poised to control both Houses and the presidency? Certainly not. This situation resembles a game of Calvinball, where rules are constantly changing.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, it is indeed a scheme for packing the court\u2014an unconstitutional one at that. It seems that &#8220;court packing&#8221; isn&#8217;t polling well with voters, prompting Biden\u2014or whoever is currently steering his administration\u2014to endorse an alternative approach. An 18-year term limit for justices would conveniently shift a 6-3 originalist majority into a 6-3 majority favoring a more flexible interpretation of the Constitution, potentially reversing many recent rulings and endorsing numerous federal overreaches.<\/p>\n<p>One could argue that this is merely an electoral strategy since it&#8217;s unlikely that this reform package will pass. However, that&#8217;s not really the issue at hand. The left has normalized viewing the Supreme Court as illegitimate and corrupt when it doesn&#8217;t align with partisan interests.<\/p>\n<p>The objections raised by progressives lack any solid legal foundation; they hinge on the unfounded belief that the court is failing because it doesn&#8217;t reflect Democratic political ideals. They show little regard for impartiality in law or even for legal principles themselves. Today&#8217;s leftists operate without guiding principles beyond their desired outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of authoritarianism, Kamala Harris claims that expanding the Supreme Court is essential due to \u201ca clear crisis of confidence facing\u201d it.<\/p>\n<p>But is there really such a crisis?<\/p>\n<p>The current situation stems from decades of attacks on this institution by Democrats who have trivialized confirmation hearings since the 1980s. After Barack Obama publicly criticized the Supreme Court for upholding First Amendment rights, things escalated further. Wealthy progressive activist groups began fabricating scandals and disseminating them through pseudo-journalistic channels; now every mention of SCOTUS can be accompanied by phrases like \u201cplagued by ethical scandals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s any crisis in confidence regarding SCOTUS, it&#8217;s one manufactured by leftist narratives.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, as Casey Mattox points out, Gallup reports that 30 percent of Americans express \u201cGreat Deal\/Quite a Lot\u201d of confidence in SCOTUS\u2014a figure that&#8217;s actually increased slightly over two years\u2014while another 31 percent say they have \u201cSome\u201d confidence in it.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s momentarily overlook Article III of our Constitution: if public opinion justifies undermining an independent branch of government based on polling data alone, why should we allow Congress\u2014which has only a 9 percent approval rating\u2014to do so?<\/p>\n<p>Justices already adhere to established codes of judicial conduct; there&#8217;s no evidence suggesting they&#8217;ve engaged in unethical behavior benefiting third parties or themselves while serving on benches nor deviated from their long-standing legal philosophies due to personal relationships or vacations with wealthy friends.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also important to note how Democrats created new standards specifically aimed at discrediting Clarence Thomas\u2014standards they wouldn\u2019t apply to themselves. Many members leading efforts against SCOTUS legitimacy have exploited their positions for personal gain\u2014including Dick Durbin and Richard Blumenthal among others.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps instead we should consider having SCOTUS draft ethics guidelines for Congress itself!<\/p>\n<p>Democrats aim to impose their own ethics code which would enable partisans\u2014armed with whatever dubious information Politico or ProPublica generates under progressive funding\u2014to malign justices during congressional show trials and baseless investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court operates as an equal branch within government; Chuck Schumer may threaten justices but ultimately they are not beholden to him\u2014or Biden either\u2014whose family amassed wealth through questionable influence peddling practices while holding office (notably amidst his presidency&#8217;s lowly Gallup rating).<\/p>\n<p>In fact Americans trust SCOTUS more than state-run schools or unions or large corporations\/banks\/criminal justice systems combined! <\/p>\n<p>Biden states: \u201cWhat is happening now isn\u2019t normal,\u201d claiming it erodes public trust in judicial decisions affecting personal freedoms\u2014but what he means here primarily concerns ensuring unrestricted access abortion up until birth\u2014not safeguarding individual liberties across broader contexts!<\/p>\n<p>While he correctly observes recent constitutional adherence from courts has been unusual lately\u2014the diversity within majority opinions contradicts notions about textualists marching uniformly compared with liberal counterparts\u2014as evidenced last session demonstrated otherwise!<\/p>\n<p>By way\u2014the president himself has been entrenched within government since \u201873! Two-thirds Senate members currently controlled by Democrats exceed age seventy! Judiciary chair Dick Durbin entered Congress back \u201982!<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately lifetime appointments exist precisely so high courts remain insulated from transient political pressures\u2014which irks progressives most: seeing them fulfill intended roles effectively! If confirmation votes were predictable beforehand\u2014it\u2019d undoubtedly devolve into even uglier partisan chaos\u2014a scenario desired solely among anti-norm leftists seeking disruption!<\/p>\n<p>Indeed\u2014the Democratic agenda targeting expansion upon our highest court represents direct assault upon constitutional integrity\u2014with far-reaching ramifications surpassing anything witnessed during January sixth events\u2014not even close comparison truly exists here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2316240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2022_Roberts_Court_Formal_083122_Web.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5521,3933,4901,5894,6994],"class_list":["post-2316239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-democracy","tag-dems","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-scotus"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2022_Roberts_Court_Formal_083122_Web.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316239","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2316240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}