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April 1, 2023

court packing

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Democrats begin push to expand the Supreme Court

April 15, 2021 Kevin Freking, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of congressional Democrats introduced legislation Thursday to add four seats to the Supreme Court, a long-shot bid designed to counter the court’s rightward tilt during the Trump administration and criticized […]

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STRAND: The Senate filibuster and the ‘nuclear option’

January 12, 2021 Mark Strand

Now that Democrats have unified control of our federal government in Washington for the first time in a decade, some on the left would like to eliminate the legislative filibuster to let loose a flurry […]

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TUCKER: The 1937 court-packing failure

October 27, 2020 Garland S. Tucker, III

Court packing is not new. A Democratic president tried it 83 years ago. He did not succeed. A North Carolina senator led the fight. By early 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt’s mastery of the federal government […]

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DAVIS: A President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Senator Cal Cunningham will mean Democrats will pack the Supreme Court

October 27, 2020 Mike Davis

Democrats have a long history of refusing to talk about issues that are wildly unpopular with the American people. One of the most infamous and illustrative examples came when Nancy Pelosi, while discussing Obamacare in […]

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PRAGER: What will happen If the Democrats pack the Supreme Court

October 14, 2020 Dennis Prager

Exponential growth. It’s why plagues are so dangerous and compound interest is so wonderful. It’s also why the Democrats’ flirting with court packing could destroy the Supreme Court and, with it, America as we know […]

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Biden tiptoes around idea of high court packing

October 13, 2020 Alexandra Jaffe, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joe Biden says he is “not a fan” of adding seats to the Supreme Court, after weeks of avoiding questions about the proposal that’s been pushed by progressives and used by Republicans […]

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