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BIDEN: Unwilling to Say if He Would Pack the Supreme Court
In recent years, numerous Democrats have put forth the idea of “packing” the Supreme Court – i.e., increasing the number of justices from 9 to perhaps 13 or 15, with all the additions being activists who could be counted upon to rule in favor of Democrat agenda items. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden repeatedly refused to give his opinion on court-packing: “You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over,” he told reporters in October 2020. When a reporter asked Biden, “don’t the voters deserve to know [your position on Court-packing]?” Biden answered: “No, they don’t.”

BIDEN: Creates a Commission To Study Packing the Supreme Court
On April 9, 2021, President Biden announced that he had signed an executive order creating a commission to study the possibility of packing the Supreme Court with additional Justices. To co-chair the commission, Biden appointed two left-wing partisans who had previously served in the Obama administration: Bob Bauer and Cristina Rodriguez.

HARRIS: She Would Favor Packing the Supreme Court
During a 2020 interview on MSNBC, Sen. Harris stated that she was “1,000 percent” in support of President Biden’s refusal to state publicly whether or not he was in favor of expanding the Supreme Court. Said Harris: “Joe’s been very clear that he is going to pay attention to the fact — and I’m with him on this 1,000 percent — pay attention to the fact that right now … people are voting. They’re voting…. People will be voting up until Election Day, and they have a right, in an election, to elect their next president, who then will make the decision about who will be the nominee.”

In 2019, Harris had said the following about the possibility of packing the Court: “We are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court. We have to take this challenge head on, and everything is on the table to do that.”

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Propose Expansion of Supreme Court from 9 Justices to 13
At an April 15, 2021 news conference, Rep. Ed Markey unveiled the Judiciary Act Of 2021, which called for expanding the Supreme Court from 9 Justices to 13. The bill was co-sponsored by 59 House Democrats.

TRUMP: Originalist Justices
When Donald Trump first entered the presidential race of 2016, he pledged to appoint only originalists to the Supreme Court — i.e., judges who would strive to discern the original intent of the Framers of the Constitution. Toward that end, he subsequently named Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the nation’s highest court. Trump also applied this same originalist standard to his appointments of 300+ additional judges to the federal bench nationwide.

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