An overcast sky hangs above the U.S. Supreme Court on December 16, 2019, in Washington, D.C. | Samuel Corum/Getty Images
Democrats in U.S. Congress have announced controversial legislation that would add four seats to the U.S. Supreme Court in response to the current conservative majority. However, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has reportedly said she won’t bring such legislation to the floor for a vote.
Introduced Thursday, the bill is known as the Judiciary Act of 2021 and would increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court for the first time since the 19th century.
Sponsors include House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York, Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Hank Johnson of Georgia and Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York. In the Senate, the bill is backed by Sen. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts.
Is AOC the Real Leader of the Democratic Party?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s political, economic and social goals have an impact that expands beyond the progressive groups and young voters in the Democratic coalition.
The infrastructure of the Democratic Party is amid a moment of rebuilding.
President Joe Biden took the White House in the middle of political turmoil, in addition to a trio of seething crises jabbing at the stability of the United States, where both major political parties are entirely divided after the age of former President Donald Trump.
While the GOP and its following anticipate a crowded presidential primary in 2024, the Democrats will likely be at an inevitable crossroads that the Biden administration steered the party toward, where they must decide what ideology would successfully carve unity into their roots.
An anatomy of error
What’s it like to be wrong? We have no idea. On Episode 25 of
The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene discuss being right all the time. TNR staff writers Walter Shapiro and Matt Ford review their spot-on analyses of Trump and the Republican Party;
Wired columnist Paul Ford talks about how the internet today looks exactly as he would have predicted in 2000; and the social psychologist Carol Tavris explains cognitive dissonance, the mechanism that protects people who do get things wrong unlike the hosts, producers, editors, and guests of this podcast from ever realizing it.
Walter
Shapiro: Stage one is
anonymity: You want to be the invisible man, you hope no one will notice. Then
you go into rooting for amnesia: If you don’t remember it and you willfully
don’t remember it maybe no one else
does. Then you go into the madness of crowds: “Yeah, I was wrong, but I wasn’t
the only one.” And then, in the era of Donald Trump, you hope the parade moves
on. Luckily, I never got to the fifth stop, which is fake passport and leave the
country.
Laura
Marsh: That was Walter
Shapiro, a politics reporter and frequent guest on
Trump Is Refusing To Compensate Rudy Giuliani For Legal Work
Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump (Image: File)
After such a long friendship and partnership through the attempted reversal of the presidential election results, there seems to be a rift between President Donald Trump and his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. After Trump became the first U.S. president to have been impeached by the House of Representatives twice, he has turned his ire toward Giuliani.
According to
The Hill, the outgoing president of the United States is reportedly refusing to pay the astronomical legal fees the former mayor is charging for his unsuccessful attempts to litigate his way into getting the election results overturned.