Democrats have made pretty clear in the months sense Kavanaugh was appointed to the Supreme Court that they are not happy about the court swinging from an activist court to a quasi-constitutionalist court. (I say ‘quasi’ because John Roberts sometimes doesn’t care about the Constitution)
They are afraid Roe vs Wade is going to be overturned and thus have begun enacting horrific new abortion laws in their states.
But Democrats have a new plan on how to overcome this new anti-activist bias on the court. They want to expand the number of justices on the high court. And this effort is being pushed by Obama’s former AG:
TOWNHALL – Former Attorney General Eric Holder has suggested to his fellow Democrats that one way to put their stamp on American history, especially in light of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s and President Trump’s agenda, is to expand the Supreme Court. He made the farfetched proposal last week at Yale Law School and Columbia University.
Holder, who recently announced he isn’t running for president, is still apparently fuming over McConnell refusing to allow Merrick Garland’s nomination to go forward:
“Given the Merrick Garland situation, the question of legitimacy is one that I think we should actually talk about,” Holder said. “We should be talking even about expanding the number of people who serve on the Supreme Court, if there is a Democratic President and a Congress that might be willing to do that.”
Holder isn’t alone in pushing this:
Both Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, have suggested they could support it. Buttigieg said he got the idea from the Yale Law Journal and thought it made sense because it would show the American people that the Supreme Court is not a “political institution.”
One idea that should be at least reviewed, he said, is increasing the number of justices from nine to 15 and perhaps rotating justices to the high court from the appellate level.
He said he finds “most intriguing” a structure in which five justices are appointed by Democratic presidents, five are appointed by Republican presidents, and then those 10 justices must unanimously agree on appointing the five additional justices, who would come from the appellate bench.
This is what Democrats do. They have their activist Supreme Court for decades and the *moment* it’s seemingly snatched away from them, they already start making plans to expand the court so they can put more activist justices on it.
Are there any policies left where Democrats aren’t proposing extreme solutions? If there are, there can’t be many…