{"id":2605573,"date":"2026-05-21T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-hearing-on-court-packings-partisan-perils-not-a-single-democrat-disavowed-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:35:28","slug":"in-hearing-on-court-packings-partisan-perils-not-a-single-democrat-disavowed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-hearing-on-court-packings-partisan-perils-not-a-single-democrat-disavowed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"In Hearing On Court-Packing, Not A Single Democrat Disavowed It"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fin-hearing-on-court-packings-partisan-perils-not-a-single-democrat-disavowed-it%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=2605573&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>A House judiciary subcommittee hearing addressed left-wing efforts to pack the U.S. supreme Court, with Republicans arguing such plans would damage the court\u2019s legitimacy. The article says Democrats who attended did not reject court-packing and instead criticized the conservative justices,allegedly misrepresented Supreme Court decisions,and repeated claims that recent rulings threaten rights or represent a return to oppressive systems. It highlights remarks by Rep. Hank Johnson about \u201cfar right\u201d influence and alleged harm to reproductive freedom, and also his \u201cJim Crow 2.0\u201d claim tied to the Court\u2019s decision on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-congressional-map-fight-tests-supreme-courts-racial-gerrymandering-rules\/\" title=\"...&#039;s racial gerrymandering rules tested in Louisiana congressional map dispute.\">race-based gerrymandering<\/a>.It also describes Rep. Jamie Raskin arguing that Republican-filled Supreme Court vacancies were \u201cstolen\u201d and calling past GOP actions \u201ccourt-packing,\u201d and it notes Rep. Zoe Lofgren spending time on what the author calls unfounded attacks against Justices Clarence thomas and Samuel Alito.  <\/p>\n<p>Republican members pushed back by citing what they describe as Democratic and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-would-allow-feds-to-purge-u-s-military-and-local-police-using-charges-of-hate-crimes\/\" title=\"Bill Would Allow Feds To Purge U.S. Military And Local Police Using Charges Of \u2018Hate Crimes\u2019\">left-wing threats<\/a> to the Supreme court, including leaks related to *dobbs*, the Biden Justice Department\u2019s alleged handling of intimidation of justices, the assassination attempt against Justice Kavanaugh, and threats by Senate Democrats toward other nominated justices. The piece closes with Rep. Jim Jordan arguing Democrats seek a justification for packing the court as they dislike its decisions, while suggesting they openly talk about \u201cwe gotta pack the court.\u201d  <\/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>A House subcommittee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Hgo63HsgLo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">held<\/a> a hearing on left-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/14\/dem-frontrunner-floats-packing-scotus-nuking-electoral-college-as-2028-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calls<\/a> to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with liberal activists on Thursday. And unsurprisingly, not a single House Democrat in attendance condemned such a radical proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, lawmakers heard testimony from several legal specialists about Democrats\u2019 ongoing efforts to undermine SCOTUS. As indicated by its title (\u201cCourt Packing: A Threat to the Supreme Court\u2019s Legitimacy\u201d), the hearing was <em>supposed to<\/em> examine how the left is using such efforts to push for stacking the court with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-condemns-d-c-demonstrators-despite-past-encouragement-of-violent-blm-mobs\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris condemns D.C. demonstrators despite past encouragement of violent BLM mobs\">left-wing activists<\/a> who will rule on issues in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>While House Republicans and their witnesses kept to the topic and underscored how packing the Supreme Court would undermine the rule of law and the legitimacy of the institution, the subcommittee\u2019s Democrats couldn\u2019t help themselves. Not only did every single leftist representative in attendance decline to disavow packing SCOTUS, these members went out of their way to further slander the high court\u2019s conservative justices, misrepresent its rulings, and peddle outright falsehoods.<\/p>\n<p>In his scrambling rant, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., laughably claimed that the \u201cfar right\u201d in America has created a \u201ccorrupt United States Supreme Court that too often works for the corporations, the billionaires, and the oligarchs at the expense of the American people.\u201d The congressman \u2014 who once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/guam-capsizing-planted-docs-termite-jewish-settlers-hank-johnsons-wildest-statements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">espoused<\/a> fears that the island of Guam would \u201ccapsize\u201d if too many people were on it \u2014 also took aim at the conservative legal movement and what he called the high court\u2019s \u201cMAGA supermajority\u201d before then mischaracterizing several of the court\u2019s key rulings.<\/p>\n<p>While referencing the 2022 <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and the made-up \u201cconstitutional right\u201d to abortion, for example, Johnson claimed the conservative majority has \u201cdecimated reproductive freedoms that generations of women fought to secure.\u201d The congressman notably declined to mention <em>Roe<\/em>\u2018s unsound legal reasoning and how the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision returned the power to decide abortion laws to the people and their elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson later <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/30\/resurrecting-jim-crow-democrats-melt-down-after-scotus-eviscerates-racial-gerrymandering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regurgitated<\/a> his bizarre claim that the court\u2019s recent <em>Louisiana v. Callais<\/em> decision prohibiting race-based gerrymandering has placed America in an era of \u201cJim Crow 2.0.\u201d In closing, he telegraphed Democrats\u2019 plans to \u201cdo something\u201d \u2014 including, seemingly, adding justices \u2014 to the Supreme Court once they retake power.<\/p>\n<p>Ranking Member and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., similarly misled viewers about the Supreme Court\u2019s work and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >spewed false talking points aimed<\/a> at undermining its legitimacy. <\/p>\n<p>The Democrat congressman spent a great deal of time whining about Senate Republicans\u2019 decision to hold deceased Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s seat open until after the 2016 election, which led to President Trump appointing Justice Neil Gorsuch to the post. He also complained about Republicans\u2019 subsequent move to fill deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s seat with Justice Amy Coney Barrett before the 2020 election. <\/p>\n<p>In an apparent bid to justify Democrats\u2019 court-packing gambit, Raskin laughably claimed these decisions amount to \u201ccourt-packing,\u201d and that those seats were \u201cstolen\u201d by the GOP. He also grossly (and falsely) argued that the court\u2019s <em>Callais<\/em> decision and rulings upholding a colorblind Constitution \u201creturned [the country] to the historic baseline of political white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., similarly did not condemn efforts to pack the Supreme Court but instead spent her time peddling <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/07\/democrats-ethics-smears-against-thomas-and-alito-are-so-embarrassing-they-buried-their-own-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bogus smears<\/a> against Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. <\/p>\n<p>In pushing back on Democrats\u2019 hatchet job, Republican congressmen like Jim Jordan listed off the numerous ways in which leftists have threatened and sought to destroy the Supreme Court due to their disagreement with its rulings. He pointed out the leaking of the <em>Dobbs<\/em> majority opinion, the Biden Justice Department\u2019s refusal to prosecute left-wing demonstrators trying to intimidate the conservative justices, the assassination attempt against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the smears against Thomas and Alito, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s threats against Gorsuch and Kavanaugh \u2014 all of which he said is meant to lay the foundation for Democrats\u2019 bid to pack the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did they do it? To concoct some basis for packing the court. And now they\u2019re saying it again,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cThey\u2019re all talking about it. \u2026 \u2018We gotta pack the court.\u2019 Why? Why? \u2019Cause they don\u2019t like the decisions that this good court is giving this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A House hearing spotlighted left-wing calls to pack SCOTUS-no attending Democrats condemned it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2605574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Hank-Johnson.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[78348,32923,4151,36160,32275],"class_list":["post-2605573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-court-packing-2","tag-democratic-party","tag-judiciary","tag-political-controversy","tag-supreme-court"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Hank-Johnson.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605573","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605577,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605573\/revisions\/2605577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}