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Adam Schiff leads call to pack Supreme Court with liberals

by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist | 
July 03, 2023 10:15 AM

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Calls to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices grew louder over
the weekend when partisan Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) put out a new call
to “expand, unstack, and reform” the highest court in the land.

In an email to supporters of his Senate campaign, Schiff said, “We must

unpack the court by expanding the number of justices on the court,
instituting term limits, and enacting a code of ethics like every other
federal court.”

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Liberal lawmakers have been upset with the court ever since President
Donald Trump put three conservatives on it. Since then, there have
been demands to retaliate by adding more justices to water down the
GOP majority.

Most Americans, however, oppose court packing, and even President

Joe Biden has been reluctant to join in the call. A survey from the
Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports a year ago found that 55%
oppose adding more justices.

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Democrats, however, appear in favor. That survey, following the court’s

decisions to end Roe v. Wade and expand gun rights, said that 64% of
Democrats want to add four more justices to the nine on the bench
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Schiff noted that he has been pushing for more justices since Roe was
killed.

“I’ve spent years talking about the need to expand, unstack, and reform
the Supreme Court after Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell stacked
it with partisans. This week we saw firsthand the consequences of its
imbalance,” he said in the email shared with Secrets.

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Other liberals also attacked the court over the weekend, notably Reps.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).

On MSNBC, for example, Pressley said, “I think everything should be on

the table.” On adding more judges, she argued that the court “has
been emboldened in rolling back the hands of time, undermining and
rolling back what should be fundamental civil human rights. So
everything should be on the table: reform and expansion.”

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