Liberal members of the White Home’s commission to consider changes to the Supreme Court revealed disappointment Friday that the draft file on broadening the variety of seats does not clearly endorse doing so.
In an online public hearing, a number of described the 2nd chapter of the “conversation products” launched Thursday as biased versus broadening the court– which some call “packaging” the court, due to the fact that Democrats want to broaden the variety of Supreme Court justices and fill the jobs with liberals.
Existing Democratic proposals, backed by legislation in your house of Representatives, suggest broadening the Court to add 4 brand-new seats, which would suggest that it would have thirteen in total. If all 4 of those were to be filled by liberal justices, that would develop a small 7-6 liberal ideological majority.
Harvard Law School professor Andrew Manuel Crespo stated there was an “intelligible, coherent– and, to many people, convincing” argument that Republicans had already “packed” the Court– first by rejecting confirmation hearings in 2016 to Judge Merrick Garland, efficiently keeping the variety of Supreme Court justices at eight; 2nd, by confirming Justice Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg swiftly in 2020, keeping the Court at 9 justices.
House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) made a similar argument previously this year when he declared, upon revealing his court-packing legislation: “Some individuals will state we’re loading the Court. We’re unloading it. Senator [Mitch] McConnell and Republicans packed the Court over the last number of years … this is a reaction to that.”
Crespo challenged the concept that there was a “decades-long precedent” versus expanding the court, which has actually had 9 justices since 1869.
Keeping in mind that Congress had the constitutional authority to add seats to the Supreme Court, Crespo stated that he hoped the 2nd chapter would be modified to be more “even-handed” by including more favorable arguments for expanding the court.
The commission also discussed other possible “reform” proposals, such as term limitations for Supreme Court justices.
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