{"id":128056,"date":"2022-07-19T12:35:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128056"},"modified":"2022-07-19T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:35:38","slug":"democrats-want-four-more-seats-added-to-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128056","title":{"rendered":"Democrats want four more seats added to the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last year, some Democrats introduced a bill titled “Judiciary Act”. If signed into law, the Supreme Court would be expanded by four seats. This would give the Democrats a chance to add four activist leftist justices to the Supreme Court. One Democrat argument involves the Supreme Court “going rogue”. Another Democrat argued that the Supreme Court justices are not subject to the popular vote. An additional Democrat complained that the Supreme Court is “usurping the power of the other two branches of government.”<\/p>\n

From The Hill:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), the lead sponsor of the 2021 Judiciary Act, called the current makeup “a Supreme Court at crisis with itself and with our democracy” where “basic freedoms are under assault” from the 6-3 conservative supermajority on the bench.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court isn’t susceptible to the popular vote the way Congress is, Johnson said, and it has used that fact to amass power. “It’s making decisions that usurp the power of the legislative and executive branches,” he said.<\/p>\n

Facing Republican opposition and some Democratic skepticism, the bill has little chance of becoming law, but it illustrates the deep anger among progressive Democrats about the court’s direction under three conservative justices nominated by former President Trump: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.<\/p>\n

Those three justices have radically altered the direction of the court, which now has twice as many conservative justices as liberal ones. Kavanaugh replaced Justice Anthony Kennedy, a previous swing vote who had been nominated to the court by a Republican, while Barrett replaced liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/p>\n

Adding to Democratic anger, a GOP Senate blocked former President Obama’s last nominee to the court, Merrick Garland, who is now the attorney general. Gorsuch ended up being nominated to the court in place of Garland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Hill<\/a>, Just the News<\/a>, and Wavy-TV 10<\/a> has this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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