Democrats would destroy Supreme Court with scheme to pack justices
By Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor — 10/03/20 10:00 AM EDT
Subtlety has long been a stranger to our politics. This is the age of rage, and there is little room for nuance. That is evident in the intense debate over the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Democrats have dispensed with any pretense in their calls to block Barrett and “pack†the court. What they want is a new reliable court created through litmus-test confirmations where Senate votes are conditioned on judicial pledges.
Various Democratic senators have said they will demand that Barrett answer questions on her view of any challenge to Roe versus Wade, as well as cases like the pending challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Barrett faced such demands from Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and others during her confirmation as an appellate judge, and many Democrats voted against her because she wouldn’t promise to uphold Roe. In their presidential campaigns, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) pledged to appoint only justices who would uphold Roe.
Hillary Clinton lashed out at Barrett and other nominees of President Trump for failing to support particular cases. She expressed disgust that “a number of them would not even say they agreed with Brown versus Board of Education or with other precedents. And it is not just a question of choice. It’s a question of whether we’re going to continue the move toward progress.â€
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