{"id":470633,"date":"2021-05-04T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=470633"},"modified":"2021-05-04T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:50:54","slug":"kamala-who-has-not-ruled-out-packing-supreme-court-tells-conference-an-independent-judiciary-is-critical-to-a-healthy-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-who-has-not-ruled-out-packing-supreme-court-tells-conference-an-independent-judiciary-is-critical-to-a-healthy-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala, Who Has Not Ruled Out Packing Supreme Court, Tells Conference: \u2018An Independent Judiciary Is Critical To A Healthy Democracy\u2019"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fkamala-who-has-not-ruled-out-packing-supreme-court-tells-conference-an-independent-judiciary-is-critical-to-a-healthy-democracy%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=470633&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\/03\/fb_image-2973.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at the Washington Conference on the Americas, Vice-President Kamala Harris, despite the fact that in 2019 as a presidential candidate she reportedly would not rule out packing the Supreme Court with additional justices, and still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-el-salvador-independent-judiciary-democrats-pack-supreme-court\">has not done so<\/a>, pontificated that \u201can independent judiciary is critical to a healthy democracy and a strong economy.\u201d Harris also posited that some of the \u201croot causes\u201d of the vast number of immigrants flooding the Southern border included the \u201clack of climate adaption and climate resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris opined, \u201cSo we want to help. Our administration wants to help. We want to pick back up the kind of work President Joe Biden started when he was vice-president. We want to help people find hope at home. And so, we are focused on addressing both the acute factors and the root causes of migration. And I believe this is an important distinction: we must focus on both. First, the acute factors, the catastrophes that are causing people to leave right now: the hurricanes, the pandemic, the drought, and extreme food insecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then there are the long-standing issues, the root causes,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd I\u2019m thinking of corruption, violence, and poverty. The lack of economic opportunity. The lack of climate adaption and climate resilience. The lack of good governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Harris segued to her contention that a healthy democracy needed an independent judiciary, saying, \u201cJust this weekend we learned that the Salvadoran parliament moved to undermine its nation\u2019s highest court. An independent judiciary is critical to a healthy democracy and a strong economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/03\/18\/2020-democrats-supreme-court-1223625\">reported<\/a> in March 2019, when Harris was still running for the Democratic presidential nomination, \u201cSens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand told POLITICO they would not rule out expanding the Supreme Court if elected president, showcasing a new level of interest in the Democratic field on an issue that has until recently remained on the fringes of debate.\u201d\u00a0Harris stated, \u201cWe are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court. We have to take this challenge head on, and everything is on the table to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During their vice-presidential debate last October, former Vice President Mike Pence asked Harris flat-out if she supported packing the Supreme Court. He stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p><em>When you speak about the Supreme Court, though, I think the American people really deserve an answer, Senator Harris. Are you and Joe Biden going to pack the court if Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed? I mean, there\u2019ve been 29 vacancies on the Supreme Court during presidential election years from George Washington to Barack Obama.\u00a0Presidents have nominated in all 29 cases, but your party is actually openly advocating, adding seats to the Supreme court, which has had nine seats for 150 years if you don\u2019t get your way. This is a classic case of if you can\u2019t win by the rules, you\u2019re going to change the rules. Now you\u2019ve refused to answer the question. Joe Biden has refused to answer the question \u2014\u00a0you\u2019ve refused to answer the question. Joe Biden has refused to answer the question. So I think the American people would really like to know if Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed at the Supreme Court of the United States. Are you and Joe Biden, if somehow you win this election, going to pack the Supreme Court to get your way?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris dodged answering the question, and sidestepped this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>In 1864, one of the, I think political heroes, certainly the President, I assume you also, Mr. Vice President, is Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was up for reelection and it was 27 days before the election. And a seat became open on the United States Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln\u2019s party was in charge, not only of the White House, but the Senate. But Honest Abe said, \u201cIt\u2019s not the right thing to do. The American people deserve to make the decision about who will be the next president of the United States. And then that person can select who will serve for a lifetime on the highest court of our land.\u201d And so Joe and I are very clear: the American people are voting right now and it should be their decision about who will serve on this most important body for a lifetime.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pence doggedly pursued her, asking, \u201cPeople \u2026 are voting right now. They\u2019d like to know if you and Joe Biden are going to pack the Supreme Court if you don\u2019t get your way in this nomination. You, once again, gave a non-answer. Joe Biden gave a non-answer. \u2026\u00a0You know the people deserve a straight answer, and if you haven\u2019t figured it out yet, the straight answer is they are going to pack the Supreme Court if they somehow win this election. Men and women, I got to tell you people across this country, if you cherish our Supreme Court, if you cherish the separation of powers, you need to reject the Biden Harris ticket come November the third, reelect President Donald Trump, and we\u2019ll stand by that separation powers in a nine seats Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris continued dodging, saying, \u201cLet\u2019s talk about packing the court then. Let\u2019s talk about the fact. \u2026\u00a0So the Trump Pence administration has been, because I sit on the Senate judiciary committee, Susan as you mentioned, and I\u2019ve witnessed the appointments for lifetime appointments to the federal courts, district courts, courts of appeal, people who are purely ideological, people who have been reviewed by legal professional organizations and found who have been not competent are substandard. And do you know that of the 50 people who President Trump appointed to the court of appeals for lifetime appointments, not one is black? This is what they\u2019ve been doing. You want to talk about packing a court? Let\u2019s have that discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In April, President Biden issued an <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\/\">executive order<\/a> to create a Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States that would \u201cexamine include the genesis of the reform debate; the Court\u2019s role in the Constitutional system; the length of service and turnover of justices on the Court; the membership and size of the Court; and the Court\u2019s case selection, rules, and practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vice President Harris Delivers Remarks to the Washington Conference on the Americas\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YNwboxYLGtI?start=280&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the Washington Conference on the Americas, Vice-President Kamala Harris, despite the fact that in 2019 as a presidential candidate she reportedly would not rule out packing the Supreme &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277273,"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\/03\/fb_image-2973.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Kamala, Who Has Not Ruled Out Packing Supreme Court, Tells Conference: \u2018An Independent Judiciary Is Critical To A Healthy Democracy\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2973.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Kamala, Who Has Not Ruled Out Packing Supreme Court, Tells Conference: \u2018An Independent Judiciary Is Critical To A Healthy Democracy\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470633","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=470633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}