{"id":414650,"date":"2021-04-12T15:58:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=414650"},"modified":"2021-04-12T15:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:58:25","slug":"harry-reid-warns-dems-against-packing-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harry-reid-warns-dems-against-packing-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid Warns Dems Against Packing Supreme 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\">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%2Fharry-reid-warns-dems-against-packing-supreme-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=414650&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:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1523.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) on Saturday cautioned Democrats against expanding the size of the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think we better be very, very careful in saying that we need to expand the Supreme Court,&#8221; Reid told CNN. The former senator also said President Joe Biden&#8217;s commission to study Supreme Court reforms, which the White House announced Friday, will &#8220;disappoint a lot of&#8221; Democrats because it will recommend Congress &#8220;leave [the Court] alone.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Biden&#8217;s Supreme Court commission will examine a host of reforms for the nation&#8217;s highest court, including its<\/span><span> &#8220;<\/span><span>membership and size,&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/04\/09\/president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-creating-the-presidential-commission-on-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to a White House statement.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The administration&#8217;s announcement comes amid a recent push by congressional Democrats to expand the Supreme Court after former president Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the bench last year. Sen. Ed Markey (D., Mass.), a proponent of court packing, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2021\/04\/10\/markey-calls-to-expand-supreme-court-other-massachusetts-pols-say-theyll-wait-on-biden-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>accused<\/span><\/a><span> Republicans on Saturday of &#8220;stealing seats&#8221; and said expanding the number of justices would &#8220;restore integrity to the Court.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senate Republicans, on the other hand, have slammed the White House&#8217;s commission, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.)&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeaderMcConnell\/status\/1380632649660829696\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>calling<\/span><\/a><span> it a &#8220;direct assault on our nation&#8217;s independent judiciary.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Any changes to the size of the Supreme Court, which is set at nine justices, would require 60 votes in the Senate\u2014an obstacle that has fueled calls from liberal activists to eliminate the filibuster. Some Democrats, including Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), however, have voiced support for keeping the filibuster, stymieing efforts to overhaul the High Court.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Senate majority leader, Reid eliminated the filibuster for executive branch and federal judicial nominations but not nominations to the Supreme Court in 2013, prompting McConnell to extend the so-called nuclear option to High Court nominees in 2017. Reid&#8217;s decision helped pave the way for the Court&#8217;s conservative majority\u2014the Senate confirmed all three of Trump&#8217;s Supreme Court nominees with fewer than 60 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among other reforms, Biden&#8217;s commission will also consider term limits for justices. Reid told CNN such a change would be &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; for the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) on Saturday cautioned Democrats against expanding the size of the Supreme Court. &#8220;I think we better be very, very careful in saying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312050,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1523.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Harry Reid Warns Dems Against Packing Supreme Court","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1523.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Harry Reid Warns Dems Against Packing Supreme Court","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414650","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}