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Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) joined Fox News Radio’s Guy Benson Show to discuss Democrat’s push to pack Supreme Court with four new justices. Democrat lawmakers introduced a bill that would increase the court from 9 to 13 justices.
Senator Sasse said,
“I don’t know how to guess how the politics play out, but a bunch of these people are clearly high. Like I didn’t remember the Guam line, but it feels like just kind of a weed infused policy rollout would have included the danger of Guam capsizing. So that’s a good time.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi effectively killed Democrats proposal to expand the Supreme Court by four seats
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler will announce details of the bill Thursday
Pelosi said: I support the president s commission to study such a proposal
Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin also said Thursday he s not ready to back the proposal
The Supreme Court now leans conservative, with Trump appointing three
Republicans warned during the election that Democrats would try and change it
Biden in 2005 said packing the court with more liberal judges was power grab
Republican and Democrats have slammed Joe Biden s announcement
They have said it is divisive , brainless , a radical left ploy and a power grab
Biden established commission to examine expanding the Supreme Court Friday
Move would wipe out conservative majority on the bench formed under Trump
Mitch McConnell said it was more evidence of the far-left s influence on Biden
Mitt Romney said it would forever diminish institutions at our foundation
Rep. Marsha Blackburn said Democrats will destroy institutions to seize power
Nikki Haley said: Court packing is undemocratic, divisive, and brainless
The panel of 36 legal scholars is made up of both liberals and conservatives