Constitutional Amendment to prevent packing the SCOTUS

[Dusty Britches]

Go Cruz!


Constitutional Amendment Authored To Stop Democrats From Ever Packing SCOTUS

• U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has reintroduced a constitutional amendment requiring a total of nine Supreme Court justices on the bench at a time. As Debra McClure reports, Cruz has offered this proposal twice before, in 2020 and again in 2023.
• In recent years, Democrats have threatened to "pack the court" by creating new slots on the Supreme Court. He said Democrats have taken this approach because they "seek to use the Court to advance policy goals they can’t accomplish electorally.”
• The Constitution does not specify the number of justices on the Supreme Court. That number fluctuated until the Judiciary Act of 1869, when it was set at nine. In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt tried to increase the number of justices in order to get more favorable rulings. That push was eventually abandoned.
• A survey by the Wall Street Journal in mid-2024 found that a majority of Americans do not favor increasing the number of SCOTUS justices.

[tvc184]

And that ends it………

[GA Bowhunter]

The democrats wanted to pack the SCOTUS. Turnabout is fair play. Trump should pack it.

Actually, I agree that the right thing to do is keep the SCOTUS at 9 justices.

[dustindrby1]

The democrats wanted to pack the SCOTUS. Turnabout is fair play. Trump should pack it.

Actually, I agree that the right thing to do is keep the SCOTUS at 9 justices.

Agreed!

[GarGuy]

Of course this will fail quickly again.

[Duckologist]

Of course this will fail quickly again.

Basically a waste of time