The Supreme Court is in Danger of Politically-Motivated Expansion

House Democrats are actively pushing a bill to expand the Supreme Court and fill it with Leftist, socialist Justices.

Just as we expected, almost immediately after the historic Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the radical Left is scrambling once again to pack the Court with more liberal justices to bend the Judicial Branch to its agenda.

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) have proposed a bill entitled the Judiciary Act of 2021 that would increase the Supreme Court by four Justices to make the final number thirteen. It’s amazing how with a 6-3 conservative leaning Court that they somehow came up with the magic number of four, which would lead to four more Left leaning Justices and a 7-6 liberal majority. How convenient.

The Left is essentially behaving like a child that didn’t get its way. It’s throwing a tantrum and trying to change the entire institution of the Court to work in its favor.

The whole reason Supreme Court Justices receive a lifetime appointment is so that the Court is not swayed by the political landscape of the day. The Supreme Court is dedicated to upholding the law. It was never meant to be political. But the Left is playing politics to weaponize the Court, regardless of the law.

The last attempt to increase the Supreme Court was President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937 and as you probably guessed, the move failed. And back when he was Senator, even President Joe Biden himself called Roosevelt’s move to pack the Court a “bonehead idea” and a “terrible, terrible mistake to make and it put in question for an entire decade the independence of the most significant body, including the Congress in my view, the most significant body in this country, the Supreme Court of the United States of America.”

Never before have we agreed so strongly with the words of Joe Biden.

Unfortunately the rest of his party has a different opinion, given that they are openly discussing court packing, using that exact term. A term, court packing, that used to have a negative connotation in regards to the judicial system since it’s literally just stacking the deck with agreeable Justices that agree with your political ideology, rather than qualified, deserving, unbiased Justices. In other words, cheating. Even the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who has taken on an almost sainted legacy among the Left, rejected the idea of packing the Court, saying:

"If anything would make the court appear partisan it would be that. One side saying when we’re in power we’re going to enlarge the number of judges so we’ll have more people who will vote the way we want them to. So I am not at all in favor of that solution to what I see as a temporary situation."

The Left needs to heed the words of Justice Ginsberg who summed it up precisely: “Nine seems to be a good number, and it’s been that way for a long time.”

Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes further in-depth analysis of the Left’s latest efforts to hijack the U.S. Supreme Court as well as more discussion with Sec. Mike Pompeo, and much more.