{"id":404711,"date":"2021-04-09T18:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=404711"},"modified":"2021-04-09T18:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:58:21","slug":"bidens-looking-at-packing-the-supreme-court-that-would-be-dangerous-to-our-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-looking-at-packing-the-supreme-court-that-would-be-dangerous-to-our-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Looking At Packing The Supreme Court. That Would Be Dangerous To Our Republic."},"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\">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%2Fbidens-looking-at-packing-the-supreme-court-that-would-be-dangerous-to-our-republic%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=404711&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1189.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden on Friday<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-political-power-grab-biden-creates-commission-to-study-packing-the-supreme-court\"> announced his decision<\/a> to create a commission that would study the impacts of packing the Supreme Court. Biden\u2019s long-term goal, obviously, is for Congress to up the number of justices so the conservative makeup of the court swings further left.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Biden is tapping two left-wing partisans from the Obama administration to spearhead the effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe panel will be led by Bob Bauer, who served as White House counsel for Mr. Obama, and Cristina Rodriguez, a Yale Law School professor who served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel under Mr. Obama,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/09\/us\/politics\/biden-supreme-court-packing.html\">The New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have flirted with court packing over the last few years, in large part due to President Donald Trump\u2019s judicial success. While in office, President Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices \u2013 Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett \u2013 and more than 200 federal court judges. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/01\/13\/how-trump-compares-with-other-recent-presidents-in-appointing-federal-judges\/\">Pew Research Center<\/a>, Trump appointed almost as many judges to the federal bench as President Barack Obama did in two terms.<\/p>\n<p>Although Congress has the power to change the number of seats on the Supreme Court, the number has traditionally remained at nine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArticle III of the Constitution, which establishes the Judicial Branch, leaves Congress significant discretion to determine the shape and structure of the federal judiciary,\u201d the White House website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about-the-white-house\/our-government\/the-judicial-branch\/\">explains<\/a>. \u201cEven the number of Supreme Court Justices is left to Congress \u2014 at times there have been as few as six, while the current number (nine, with one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices) has only been in place since 1869.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Increasing the number of justices that make up the Supreme Court is a dangerous precedent with long-term consequences. The United States is a country rooted in tradition and precedent. We have a respect for the rule of law and the decisions those before us made, even if we don\u2019t always agree with them.<\/p>\n<p>Our Founding Fathers established a system that could stand the test of time. Their goal was to keep our republic stable, to prevent the government from acting on the whims of the \u201cignorant masses.\u201d They wanted a system that would far surpass a brief moment in time where tensions were high. And the Supreme Court was regarded as the one thing that remained consistent, tried, and true. It\u2019s why justices have a life-time appointment and their salaries remain the same throughout their time on the high court. It\u2019s to keep them free from the political rift that takes place in Congress and the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Shifting the number of justices on the Supreme Court will not only shred our history but it would completely contradict what our Founding Fathers wanted for our nation. Once the number of justices are increased, there\u2019s nothing in place to prevent the number of seats from being continually upped every time the opposing party comes into power. There\u2019s no limit to how many justices would sit on the highest court in the land.<\/p>\n<p><em>Beth Baumann is a Political Reporter at The Daily Wire. Follow her on Twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eb454\">@eb454<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden on Friday announced his decision to create a commission that would study the impacts of packing the Supreme Court. 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