Dems Are Trying To Push 'Packing' Against The Will Of Americans

Written By BlabberBuzz | Tuesday, 20 April 2021 11:30 AM
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Dems Are Trying To Push 'Packing' Against The Will Of Americans

A majority of Americans seek to end lifetime appointments for the U.S. Supreme Court justices, according to an Ipsos poll for Reuters, however, less than half of them are in favor of other efforts to reform the judiciary.

a national opinion poll, conducted on Thursday and Friday, found that 63% of adults supported term or age limits for Supreme Court justices. Another 22% said they opposed any limits and the rest did not express an opinion.

The poll also found that merely 38% would support expanding the size of the court by adding four additional justices. Another 42% said they would oppose doing so and the remainder was undecided, or unsure.

Liberal activists and some legal scholars have been calling for judicial reforms as Republican leaders in Congress built a 6-to-3 conservative Supreme Court majority over the past several years, in part by blocking a Democratic nominee and allowing Republican former President Donald Trump to install three picks during his single term.

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Democratic lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation to expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices, a move that they believe would restore public confidence in the judicial branch. But the party's leadership appeared cool to the idea of pursuing that course.

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President Joe Biden has formed a bi-partisan committee to look into the merits of adding justices as well as other potential reforms to the court.

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While Congress has the power to change the number of justices who sit on the court, legal scholars believe it would likely require a constitutional amendment to end their lifetime appointments.

The poll shows that only 49% of Americans have a "great deal" or a "fair amount" of confidence in decisions made by Supreme Court justices. In comparison, 43% of respondents expressed a similar amount of trust in decisions made by the White House and 32% said the same of decisions made by Congress.

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The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, throughout the United States. The survey gathered responses from 1,003 adults. The results have a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of 4 percentage points.

This comes as progressives demand an end to the Electoral College, take steps to do away with the filibuster, and disrupt the workings of the Senate.

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Speaking on Thursday from the Supreme Court steps, Democratic political leaders introduced legislation to expand the Court from 9 to 13 Justices.

Giving President Biden four appointments to the Court would override President Trump’s greatest legacy – Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett – but at the price of transforming the Court into yet another plaything for radical politicians.

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Congress has the constitutional authority to set the size of the Supreme Court, but ever since 1869, both Republican and Democratic leaders have agreed that they should not manipulate the Court’s size in order to engineer their favored decisions.

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