{"id":539857,"date":"2021-05-25T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=539857"},"modified":"2021-05-25T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:06:33","slug":"blackmail-cotton-blasts-dems-threatening-to-pack-supreme-court-if-it-upholds-mississippi-pro-life-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackmail-cotton-blasts-dems-threatening-to-pack-supreme-court-if-it-upholds-mississippi-pro-life-law\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blackmail\u2019: Cotton Blasts Dems Threatening To Pack Supreme Court If It Upholds Mississippi Pro-Life Law"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fblackmail-cotton-blasts-dems-threatening-to-pack-supreme-court-if-it-upholds-mississippi-pro-life-law%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=539857&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\/05\/GettyImages-1231326590.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, responding to reports that Democrats were threatening to pack the Supreme Court if a pro-life Mississippi law is upheld by the Supreme Court, Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton fired back with one word to describe the Democrats\u2019 plans: \u201cBlackmail.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.3157894736842\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blackmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ZnYnnIuxf\">https:\/\/t.co\/1ZnYnnIuxf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomCottonAR\/status\/1396922599876268032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Court agreed this week to hear the case <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>, which challenges a Mississippi law passed in 2018 that bans abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy with a few exceptions. Amy Howe of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2021\/05\/court-to-weigh-in-on-mississippi-abortion-ban-intended-to-challenge-roe-v-wade\/\">ScotusBlog<\/a> explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>When the Mississippi legislature passed the law at the heart of the case in 2018, Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization \u2013 the only licensed abortion provider in the state \u2013 went to court to challenge the law\u2019s constitutionality and block the state from enforcing it. A federal district court agreed with the clinic, reasoning that the Supreme Court\u2019s cases do not allow states to ban abortions before a fetus becomes viable, which occurs at around 24 weeks of pregnancy. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld that decision.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the summer of 2020, Mississippi asked the Supreme Court to decide whether bans on pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. The clinic wanted the Supreme Court to stay out of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, concerned that the Mississippi law is a precursor to the repeal of the infamous <em>Roe v. Wade&nbsp;<\/em>decision, reacted to the Court deciding to hear the case by espousing packing the Court, as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/554843-democrats-roe-v-wade-blow-would-fuel-expanding-supreme-court\">The Hill<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) threatened, \u201cIt will inevitably fuel and drive an effort to expand the Supreme Court if this activist majority betrays fundamental constitutional principles. It\u2019s already driving that movement. &nbsp;Chipping away at <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> will precipitate a seismic movement to reform the Supreme Court. It may not be expanding the Supreme Court, it may be making changes to its jurisdiction, or requiring a certain numbers of votes to strike down certain past precedents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) echoed, \u201cIt really enlivens the concerns that we have about the extent to which right-wing billionaire money has influenced the makeup of the court and may even be pulling strings at the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ed Markey (D-M.A.) said, \u201cTrying to legislate with a GOP-packed Supreme Court and the Jim Crow filibuster is always 1 step forward, 3 steps back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brian Fallon, the executive director of Demand Justice, warned&nbsp;that expanding the Court was on the agenda: \u201cGroups like ours are doing work every day of the week, 52 weeks a year to build support for that proposal. \u2026 Part of our strategy here is to build support slowly but surely and grind out as much consensus around these ideas as we can for now and then be ready for if and when a big moment grabs the public attention comes. I think [the Supreme Court\u2019s] next term is shaping up to be that.\u201d<\/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>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, responding to reports that Democrats were threatening to pack the Supreme Court if a pro-life Mississippi law is upheld by the Supreme Court, Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312956,"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\/05\/GettyImages-1231326590.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Blackmail\u2019: Cotton Blasts Dems Threatening To Pack Supreme Court If It Upholds Mississippi Pro-Life Law","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1231326590.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Blackmail\u2019: Cotton Blasts Dems Threatening To Pack Supreme Court If It Upholds Mississippi Pro-Life Law","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539857","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=539857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}