{"id":429716,"date":"2021-04-15T22:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T02:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=429716"},"modified":"2021-04-15T22:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T02:05:03","slug":"this-is-not-reforming-this-is-packing-jonathan-turley-says-extreme-voices-want-supreme-court-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-not-reforming-this-is-packing-jonathan-turley-says-extreme-voices-want-supreme-court-expanded\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is Not Reforming, This Is Packing\u2019: Jonathan Turley Says \u2018Extreme Voices\u2019 Want Supreme Court Expanded"},"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\">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%2Fthis-is-not-reforming-this-is-packing-jonathan-turley-says-extreme-voices-want-supreme-court-expanded%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=429716&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>George Washington University Professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday that expanding the Supreme Court is not about \u201creforming\u201d but about \u201cpacking\u201d and is being driven by \u201cextreme voices\u201d that President Joe Biden should oppose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question about the size of a court has been debated for years,\u201d Turley said on Fox News\u2019 \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of us have talked about a larger court, but this is not reforming, this is packing. When you say that you are going to dump four new members onto the court, which just happens to give liberals a working and stable majority, that is called packing. It\u2019s raw; it\u2019s not subtle,\u201d Turley continued. \u201cWhat\u2019s driving this is the most extreme voices in our politics.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/08\/joe-biden-kamala-harris-pack-supreme-court-refuse-answer-debate\/\">(RELATED: Here Are 7 Times Biden And Harris Refused To Say If They\u2019re Going To Pack The Supreme Court)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Democratic New York Rep Jerry Nadler&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/democrats-joe-biden-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced legislation<\/a> that would expand the court to 13 justices.<\/p>\n<p>But Turley said the legislation is entirely political. \u201cIt\u2019s treating the Supreme Court like it is a glorified FCC with life tenure, you\u2019re just adding members, essentially because of their alliance with your agenda. And the damage to the court, obviously, would be extreme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is no accident that the Supreme Court is the one institution that routinely gets favorable views in polls. People respect the Supreme Court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Turley suggested politics today is about being \u201ca berserker \u2026 who\u2019s willing to lay waste to any institution or tradition on the way to final victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional scholar suggested Nadler\u2019s bill will probably fail but that the Democratic leadership needs to actively oppose court packing and say \u201cThis is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is when a president shows that he\u2019s not just a politician, but you step forward and you say \u2018Look, we can talk about reforms, but what you are talking about, that will not happen,&#8217;\u201d Turley said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/13\/jonathan-turley-joe-biden-straight-up-senator-sean-hannity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Constitutional Scholar Jonathan Turley Says Joe Biden Is Not The \u2018Straight Up\u2019 Senator \u2018That Many Of Us Saw\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7171415\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"43\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7171415\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7171415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2140.jpeg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden speaks about the March jobs report in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2021. - The US economy regained a massive 916,000 jobs in March, the biggest increase since August, with nearly a third of the increase in the hard-hit leisure and hospitality sector, the Labor Department reported on April 2, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN \/ AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2140.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1232070715-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2148.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2149.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2150.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2151.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7171415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden speaks about the March jobs report in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2021. \u2013 The US economy regained a massive 916,000 jobs in March, the biggest increase since August, with nearly a third of the increase in the hard-hit leisure and hospitality sector, the Labor Department reported on Apr. 2, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki would not say Thursday that Biden opposed the initiative but that Biden is awaiting a decision from his newly-created commission on the Supreme Court before he moves on the issue. Biden <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 noreferrer\">established the commission<\/a> in April. The \u201cbipartisan group of experts\u201d has 180 days to examine court reform, after which it will offer recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>When Psaki was reminded that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/senator-mike-lee-joe-bidens-words-against-battle-supreme-court-packing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden has previously called court packing<\/a> a \u201cbone-headed idea,\u201d she said the president has moved beyond that position and is prepared to accept the recommendations of the commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University Professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday that expanding the Supreme Court is not about \u201creforming\u201d but about \u201cpacking\u201d and is being driven by \u201cextreme voices\u201d that President Joe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312284,"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-2140.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018This Is Not Reforming, This Is Packing\u2019: Jonathan Turley Says \u2018Extreme Voices\u2019 Want Supreme Court Expanded","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429716","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-2140.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018This Is Not Reforming, This Is Packing\u2019: Jonathan Turley Says \u2018Extreme Voices\u2019 Want Supreme Court Expanded","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429716","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=429716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}