Quote:“People don’t have to live under constant fear of the Supreme Court. We can’t sit on our hands while these justices carry out the bidding of right wing organizations,” Democratic Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith said via Twitter on Friday. “Expand the court.”
In 2021, Biden established a commission to review possible reforms to the Supreme Court in an executive order, including looking into changes to its “membership and size,” according to a White House press release. Critics of the move pointed to C-SPAN footage from 1983, where Biden said that packing the court “was a bonehead idea.”

Organizations have also been jumping into the controversy. Planned Parenthood, in a press release, said, “The courts have been used as a vehicle to advance a dangerous agenda against abortion rights — federal court reform is essential for the fight for reproductive freedom,” calling for an expansion of both the number of judges on the federal district courts and the Supreme Court as well as imposing term limits on justices.

Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Clinton and liberal activist, said on Twitter that the Supreme Court is “off the rails,” suggesting term limits, rotating, justices, and expanding the court. “One thing is for certain: we can’t allow the extremists and Big Money interests who have hijacked the Court to go unchecked,” he said.

(07-01-2023, 10:45 PM)Infolurker Wrote: I still predict these crooked people are going to stack the supreme court. If you want abortion, or affirmative action against Federal non-discrimination laws there is an easy way to do it.... pass a damn bill through congress. But that is not the play here, the play is to stack the court so that they can 'Really" legislate from the bench as they have been doing in these lower courts which are actually intervening in legally passed bills and laws.


https://www.channel4.com/news/supreme-court-threat-to-democracy-says-member-of-bidens-reform-committee

Caroline Fredrickson is a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Centre, and a member of President Biden’s expert commission on reforming the Supreme Court. 


Democrats Hound Biden To Pack The Supreme Court, Establish Term Limits After More Decisions They Don’t Like

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2023/07/01/liberal-activists-hound-biden-to-pack-the-supreme-court-establish-term-limits-after-more-decisions-they-dont-like/

Quote:“People don’t have to live under constant fear of the Supreme Court. We can’t sit on our hands while these justices carry out the bidding of right wing organizations,” Democratic Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith said via Twitter on Friday. “Expand the court.”
In 2021, Biden established a commission to review possible reforms to the Supreme Court in an executive order, including looking into changes to its “membership and size,” according to a White House press release. Critics of the move pointed to C-SPAN footage from 1983, where Biden said that packing the court “was a bonehead idea.”

Organizations have also been jumping into the controversy. Planned Parenthood, in a press release, said, “The courts have been used as a vehicle to advance a dangerous agenda against abortion rights — federal court reform is essential for the fight for reproductive freedom,” calling for an expansion of both the number of judges on the federal district courts and the Supreme Court as well as imposing term limits on justices.

Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Clinton and liberal activist, said on Twitter that the Supreme Court is “off the rails,” suggesting term limits, rotating, justices, and expanding the court. “One thing is for certain: we can’t allow the extremists and Big Money interests who have hijacked the Court to go unchecked,” he said.