Franklin Graham Says Expanding Supreme Court Could Make U.S. Godless
On 4/17/21 at 11:13 AM EDT
Evangelical leader Franklin Graham has harshly criticized a proposal to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court, and suggested it would pave the way for socialistic legislation.
Graham, who is president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, took to Twitter on Saturday to decry the idea of court expansion and criticize those backing it.
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Read more These are dangerous days for our nation. Liberal progressives want to pack the Supreme Court, Graham said.
Senator Markey, House Democrats propose bill to expand number of Supreme Court justices to 13
By Amanda Kaufman Globe Staff,Updated April 15, 2021, 2:45 p.m.
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Senator Ed Markey spoke alongside fellow members of Congress as they introduce a bill to expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court from nine to 13 on Thursday.SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Markey on Thursday announced he is introducing a bill that would expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court,
arguing that increasing its size would restore justice to a body that Republicans âbrokeâ because of the way they confirmed two
A group of progressive Democrats in the US Congress are targeting former President Donald Trump’s legacy of appointing three conservative justices to the US Supreme Court by proposing to expand the high court from nine to 13 justices.
The legislative proposal, announced on Thursday, would allow new President Joe Biden to nominate four justices who would swing the court’s present 6-3 conservative majority towards the middle.
“The United States Supreme Court is broken. It is out of balance, and it needs to be fixed,” said Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat.
The American public views the court as a “partisan political institution, not as our impartial judicial branch of government”, Markey said at a news conference to introduce the “Judiciary Act of 2021” to expand the court.
NAACP Accuses Trump and Giuliani of Inciting U.S. Capitol Riot in a Federal Lawsuit
It’s been one week since Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson filed a federal lawsuit against former President Donald J. Trump and his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, accusing them of violating a 19th-century statute by conspiring to incite the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday, Feb. 16, in Washington D.C.’s Federal District Court by the NAACP and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll. Other members of Congress, including Representatives Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), intend to join the litigation as plaintiffs in the coming days and weeks.