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Hank Johnson: Tip Over Supreme Court by Adding Four Seats
« on: July 19, 2022, 10:10:58 pm »
Hank Johnson: Tip Over Supreme Court by Adding Four Seats

Joel B. Pollak 19 Jul 2022

A group of “progressive” Democrats rallied behind a bill Monday introduced last year by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) to add four seats to the Supreme Court, with the goal of packing the vacancies with liberal justices and shifting the Court to the left.

Johnson, infamous for arguing that a growing population on the island would cause the U.S. territory of Guam to “tip over and capsize,” wants to tip the balance of the Court over from a nominal 6-3 conservative majority to a 7-6 liberal majority.

The Hill reported that eight Democrats held a press conference on Capitol Hill to back Johnson’s court-packing legislation:

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    The eight lawmakers cited recent Supreme Court decisions that rolled back Miranda rights, threw out a New York gun control law and allowed religion to surface in schools — as well as the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision that overturned the right to abortion in Roe — in saying there was a need to add new justices to the court.

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    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.

    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.

Last year, House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) backed Johnson’s bill to pack the Court, ahead of deliberations by a presidential commission to study the issue. That commission’s report ultimately cautioned against the idea.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/19/hank-johnson-four-seats-to-tip-over-supreme-court/
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Re: Hank Johnson: Tip Over Supreme Court by Adding Four Seats
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2022, 12:32:54 am »
The Supreme Court is supposed to rule on the basis of the Constitution and the Law.
That is not something that is supposed to be partisan.

Make it Partisan, make it another branch of special interest demagoguery, and the Grand Experiment is over.

Our Government will only exist to protect promote special interests at the expense of the rest of the Country, at that point not protecting the Rights of all, but only promoting privilege for a select few.

It will have lost the Consent of the Governed, and become illegitimate, having no just powers without that consent.
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