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WASHINGTON, D.C., April 15, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – U.S. House Democrats unveiled legislation Thursday to add four new justices to the United States Supreme Court, though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly threw cold water on the proposal.
ABC News reports that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrod Nadler’s (D-NY) Judiciary Act of 2021 would formally expand the number of Supreme Court seats from nine to thirteen. It would give the president who signed it (presumably President Joe Biden) the opportunity to instantly and dramatically skew the Supreme Court majority in his party’s favor.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously attempted to pack the court in hopes of stopping it from striking down his New Deal economic policies. Modern Democrats and their supporters have called for doing the same upon regaining power, particularly as a response to the confirmation of former President Donald Trump’s third Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
Nadler claimed his bill would “restore balance to the nation’s highest court after four years of norm-breaking actions by Republicans led to its current composition.” For years, Democrats have claimed it was illegitimate for Senate Republicans to leave vacant
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