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April 18, 2021
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On Thursday, we examined the dangers of court packing (“Democrats have gone full-on dictator mode”), with a warning that now just one Democrat senator --- Joe Manchin --- might stand between sanity and the complete politicization of the Supreme Court. That is too close for comfort.

Let’s turn to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, one of our favorite legal experts, who has been following every move since the Democrats started talking seriously last fall about doing this. He describes their effort as “about as subtle as a B-52 run.”

“It dispenses with any pretense of principle,” he said Thursday on FOX & FRIENDS. “It’s like a hostile takeover of the court.” He called it a test of principle for Democrat members of Congress.

Uh-oh. If Democrats are being tested on principle, we know how that will go.

Turley, a Democrat, wants to see some fellow Democrats come forward and say, “This is raw, unadulterated court-packing” (which it is). He’s correct in saying that this has always been viewed as wrong, ever since President Franklin Roosevelt tried to do it in the 1930s. Democrats jumped ship then --- will they do it now? Given the nature of today’s Democrat Party, that seems highly unlikely.

Turley pointed out something I said yesterday, that some leftist icons, even Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, have opposed expanding the Court. He also noted that when Breyer very reasonably criticized the move, leftists started a billboard campaign calling for him to retire.

“I never thought I would see the day,” Turley said, “when the House Judiciary Chairman [Jerrold Nadler, a co-sponsor of the bill] would stand up for raw court-packing. It’s really breathtaking.”

He said Biden was correct in 1983, when he said this was “a terrible, terrible idea.” But now Biden is “equivocating, trying to play to the far left.” He said that “you can’t be a party that stands for constitutional values and be in favor of court-packing.” Turley is worried even that we have members of Congress willing to participate in the effort to do this.

“What they’re doing should horrify Americans.”

“This is not 'reforming' the Court,” Turley said, “it’s packing it.” I would add that any time Democrats use the word “reform,” watch out. It means they want to tear down and replace with something terrible.

He noted that even though he disagreed with Republicans when they refused to give Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland a hearing, Democrats’ calling THAT “court-packing” and using it to justify what they’re doing now is “as bizarre as their definition of ‘infrastructure.’” And what the Republicans did was entirely constitutional.

Turley was making the rounds of talk shows on Thursday, on the heels of Nadler’s introduction of the bill that would expand the Court from 9 to 13 justices. “What’s driving this is the most extreme voices in our politics,” he said on TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT.

This is entirely political, he said. “It’s treating the Supreme Court like it is a glorified FCC with life tenure, you’re just adding members, essentially because of their alliance with your agenda.”

He said that today’s politics is about being “a berserker...who’s willing to lay waste to any institution or tradition on the way to final victory.” He's right; we’ve seen them do it.

On April 10, after President Biden announced his intention to form a commission to study this idea, Turley said that even though he himself has long spoken favorably of very gradually adding justices, the way this is being done is “raw court-packing,” pure and simple, “a quick expansion to create an unassailable liberal majority.” Here is that commentary in full.

In October, when Democrats were floating the possibility of doing this, it was apparent that voters were opposed.

But since when have Democrats cared what voters wanted? The government is supposed to take its power from the consent of the governed, but Democrats don’t give a flip. We know voters don’t want no-ID voting. They don’t want thousands of people pouring over the southern border. They don’t want police departments defunded –- let alone disbanded –- with violence escalating and cities burning. Court-packing is one more terrible idea. So in order to get it past the voters who really don’t want it, Democrats are trying to reframe the discussion and confuse them as to exactly what “court-packing” is. To fool them.

“We’re not packing the Court,” said Jerry Nadler. “We’re unpacking it.”

Believe it or not, they’re saying we need more justices because the country is growing. I know, this make no sense. Why not have expand the Presidency then, and make it a committee? Besides, the Court is supposed to rule on the Constitution, basic laws and freedoms, and these have nothing to do with the size of the population.

Even last fall, Rep. Chris Coons was trying to tell voters that simply replacing a liberal justice with a more conservative one such as Amy Coney Barrett was court-packing. That’s not what it is.

Here’s how they’re falsely presenting it to the “progressive” audience, as stated by New York Rep. Mondaire Jones. Prepare to be disgusted, particularly by his produced political ad that the DAILY CALLER includes. You have my permission to bail if your head feels ready to explode.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy spoke to Sean Hannity Thursday night about the reason leftists are pushing so hard for this, explaining that the Supreme Court is the one branch of government that potentially stands in the way of an extreme agenda. Right now, they’ve got the Executive and Legislative branches; the Judiciary is the last domino. The only thing that stands in their way is the Constitution.

“Do not trust Nancy Pelosi,” he warned, “when she says she will not move it. Remember, that’s what she said about impeachment, before she moved impeachment twice.” He also pointed out that with just three more legislators, Republicans would be the House majority. That’s how slim the margin is. (Again, they don't care about “consent of the governed.")

He said that what Democrats are doing, changing the system to cement their power after winning an election, is very much like what Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela. He started out as a democratically elected leader, and then the changes began.

Tammy Bruce of the Independent Women’s Forum, also a FOX NEWS contributor, made it clear on Thursday how serious this is. She used to be on the left herself, and she knows how they operate. “For them, power is the animating factor,” she said. “Not negotiating, not the American people...” She pointed out that they’ve already “packed” many of our cultural institutions –- why would they stop now?

The only people who can stop them are THE REPUBLICANS, she said. “And Mitch McConnell needs to step up and do what he threatened to do once before, which was gum up the works so that nothing would get through. We need to hear that kind of fight in him and other Republicans again.”

He MUST stop this. And if we want him and the rest of them to fight, we have to demand it.

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  • Sarah Schmoll

    04/27/2021 01:51 PM

    We have seen so many changes evolve in the Democratic Party over the last four years with President Trump, and most of it was organized by Nancy Pelosi. And all of it has been in favor of the Democratic Party, never anything that benefited the American people. My question is, why hasn’t McConnell stepped up to stop Pelosi and others before now? Why have the Republicans waited until we were in Dire straits? And one more question. Why did the SCOTUS not address the evidence of voter fraud presented to them before the election? I find this very disturbing. If We The People are expected to believe in the Republican Party, you better step up to the plate and show us that you are fighting for us and not cow towing to the Dems!

  • Tammie Lewis

    04/27/2021 01:28 AM

    Mitch McConnell,
    Do your job that We The People put you there to do! Stop being a scoundrel! Come back to your senses or get out!!

  • Bill Codner

    04/25/2021 09:38 PM

    The gutless wonders in the Republican Party had better step up and put a stop to these power crazed DemocRats. They were gutless in fighting the largest fraud ever perpetrated against a President and the people of the United States and I don't expect anything different from them now. Why? Because they have the same motives and intentions as the DemocRats, a greed for total power over the citizens of the United States of America.

  • Ruth Trudeau

    04/24/2021 09:54 AM

    Stop these democrats in their tracks!

  • Marty Denton

    04/24/2021 09:25 AM

    Please keep the information coming about the liberal cancer that we are fighting. Truth is what America needs.

  • Syd Bates

    04/22/2021 02:07 PM

    The Demonrats are bent on "one party rule" in America. The liberals are well on their way to destroying this great nation by their grab for power. The "Lying, Deceiving Spirits" that control the Demonrats are dancing with glee over their ability to manipulate the left.
    This tactic of expanding SCOTUS will only suffice to turn the highest court in the land into the highest tribunal.
    Those whose sole purpose is a global, one-world government are unknowingly increasing the speed at which the Times of the End approach.