Ted Cruz noted that “packing the Court” meant “expanding the number of justices to achieve a political outcome,” not “filling judicial vacancies.”
Deans at the law schools at Harvard, Yale, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford all declined an invitation to comment from the College Fix on the chaos surrounding Supreme Court nominations.
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed on Monday that court-packing was only an issue because the media were “fascinated” by it, suggesting that voters did not actually care.
Joe Biden refused to answer whether he would expand the court, though he said he is “not a fan” of court-packing.
On Monday’s “CNN Tonight,” host Don Lemon scolded fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo for asking Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) about court-packing by stating that “it’s not a legitimate question” and Cuomo was “doing the Republicans’ work” by asking it. Lemon
The Associated Press described Democrats’ proposal to “pack” the Supreme Court with liberal justices in new seats as merely an effort to “depoliticize” it in a report on Saturday.
During a debate Saturday with Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) became the first Senate Democrat candidate to back packing the Supreme Court with additional justices.
Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News exclusively after a rally with thousands that it is “outrageous” that former Vice President Joe Biden claimed earlier that the American public does not “deserve” to know his position on court-packing before the election.
Joe Biden (D) referred to court packing as a “power grab” during a Senate speech in 2005 — a flashback that comes as the former vice president refuses to say if he would pack the court with additional justices, should he take the presidency.
Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his Friday broadcast with a warning about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris regarding potential plans of court-packing if they are elected on November 3.
Rep. Greg Pence (R-IN), Vice President Mike Pence’s older brother, identified higher taxes, firearm confiscation, and the Green New Deal as some of the Biden-Harris campaign’s political goals in an interview on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has refused, once again, to reveal his stance on “packing” the Supreme Court: “You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over,” he told reporters in Arizona on Thursday.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said President Donald Trump should provide more focus on his economic record in upcoming presidential debates, offering her commentary on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) pressed Sara Gideon, her Democrat opponent in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, on the latest Supreme Court vacancy on Monday, pointing out that Gideon has yet to oppose the idea of packing the Supreme Court with more justices.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) discussed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s non-response to a question about packing the Supreme Court if elected president.
Former Vice President Joe Biden declined to answer Sunday morning whether he agreed with Democrats’ threats to pack the Supreme Court if they win the election.
Electoral defeat is the only thing that can change the political positioning of Democrats, Joel Pollak said on the Michael Berry Show.
Former Vice President Joe Biden continued to dodge questions about “packing” the Supreme Court again Wednesday, insisting that the question is a distraction — even though liberals are clamoring to expand the court to add left-wing justices.
It’s likely that if the Democrats were to win this November and were actually to propose a court-packing bill, they would, soon enough, suffer the same sort of cold reaction that FDR’s bill suffered back in 1937.
There is nothing new about Democrats’ radical plans. Ginsburg’s passing is simply a pretext for them to pretend Republicans have forced them to adopt extreme measures.
In recent years, however, Democrats have also floated court-packing as a viable avenue to ensure a left-leaning Supreme Court for future generations.
Many conservatives voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 solely because the fate of the Supreme Court was at stake. They will have to do so again in 2020, because the Court remains liberal, and Democrats want to pack it further.
These are the major changes Democrats could make within months of the 2020 election, and which will be impossible to reverse.
Democrat calls for increasing the number of Supreme Court justices via “court-packing” are a push make the court a left-wing tool, said Carrie Severino.
Democrat presidential candidates and senators this week renewed their threats that unless the U.S. Supreme Court issues liberal rulings on the Second Amendment and other issues, that Democrats will fundamentally restructure the nation’s highest court, a shocking threat to judicial independence not seen since the 1930s.
Even liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg opposes Democrat presidential candidates’ Court-packing plan to expand the U.S. Supreme Court with new seats in which to install liberal justices.
