{"id":429780,"date":"2021-04-15T22:35:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T02:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=429780"},"modified":"2021-04-15T22:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T02:35:50","slug":"pelosi-does-not-plan-on-supporting-court-packing-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-does-not-plan-on-supporting-court-packing-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi does not plan on supporting court packing bill"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fpelosi-does-not-plan-on-supporting-court-packing-bill%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=429780&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 id=\"attachment_2398512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2398512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 APRIL 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attends a news conference about the Paycheck Fairness Act on Capitol Hill on April 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:10 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, April 15, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signaled she will not support Congressman Jerry Nadler\u2019s (D-N.Y.) bill to expand the Supreme Court. On Thursday, Pelosi was asked about Nadler\u2019s proposal to expand the High Court by four seats during a press conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do not fall for the Left&#8217;s game. Dems put forward a Supreme Court packing bill. Pelosi not there yet but says she supports Biden &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; commission<\/p>\n<p>Commission is 2-to-1 stacked w\/ liberals<\/p>\n<p>Supporting commission = Supporting court packing\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OutnumberedFNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OutnumberedFNC<\/a> at 12 PM!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kayleighmcenany\/status\/1382717052000071681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the House Speaker said she would support Joe Biden\u2019s newly-formed Supreme Court commission, which will look into the impacts of the proposal. Pelosi responded with a concise and blunt: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Speaker Pelosi says she will not commit to bringing Rep. Jerry Nadler&#8217;s bill seeking to expand SCOTUS by 4 seats to the floor. <\/p>\n<p>Says she supports Pres. Biden&#8217;s commission to study such a proposal, but doesn&#8217;t know if packing the court is a good or bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer Franco (@jennfranconews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jennfranconews\/status\/1382729816642768899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other top Democrats, including Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), have refused to support the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, back in 2005, when he was still a senator, Joe Biden panned the idea. He called it a \u201cpower grab.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FLASHBACK<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Joe Biden called FDR\u2019s court packing attempt a \u201cpower grab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember this old adage about power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely \u2014 corrupted by power, in my view, [FDR] unveiled his court-packing plan.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pvdIjBvIou\">pic.twitter.com\/pvdIjBvIou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1382744408739749888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/officer-shoots-kills-man-who-opened-fire-on-san-antonio-airport\/\">Officer Shoots, Kills Man Who Opened Fire On San Antonio Airport<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 APRIL 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attends a news conference about the Paycheck Fairness Act on Capitol Hill on April 15, 2021 in Washington, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276074,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429780","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=429780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}