Democrats introduce bill to expand the Supreme Court to 13 seats...

 

File photo of the Supreme Court. NBC News.

The Democrats have introduced a bill that would expand the Supreme Court from 9 justices to 13. NBC News. The court now has a slim 5-4 conservative majority with Chief Justice John Roberts being a conservative leaning swing vote. Democrats that support the move make the claim that they were robbed from a seat after the Senate did not allow a vote to replace Justice Scalia back in 2016. President Trump secured three justices during his term, all conservative. The bill is extremely unlikely to pass due to all Republicans and some Democrats opposing it. Biden has flip flopped on the issue saying he isn't a fan of expanding the court but also forming a commission to study the idea.

My Comment:

Again, this entire idea seems like a massive own-goal by the Democrats. The idea is unpopular and extremely divisive and is not going to pass. Republicans will be beyond furious if this somehow passes to the point where I would honestly expect an actual insurrection or civil war if it was done. And the Democrats? They will be furious when this doesn't pass. 

I also don't buy the argument for a second that the Democrats have anything to complain about. They would have done the same thing if they had the Senate when Scalia died and the GOP had the White House. And they have only themselves to blame for losing in 2016, putting up Hillary Clinton was a massive error and not forcing Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire is also on them. They basically have nothing to be upset at other than the fact that they screwed themselves over. 

Since the conservatives won the court fair and square (and I can't stress enough how slim that majority is, Roberts is a leftist now), the Democrats stacking the court with four more members would correctly be seen as a power grab. There is no reason to see it as anything else. Doing so would be a clear signal that the country is officially dead and there is no reason to stay together anymore. 

Thankfully, reason is likely to prevail. Senator Joe Manchin is already against the idea and since he is the swing vote in the Senate this bill has no chance of passing. And Manchin isn't the only one by far, any Senator or member of Congress who votes for this in a red state would be committing suicide, maybe literally. I don't think that the Democrats have the votes to pass this in either house. 

So why do this? It won't pass, it will anger both sides of the debate and it greatly increases the chances of civil unrest or violence. It will also be used as a rallying cry for the Republicans and it has a decent chance, along with all the other idiotic things the Democrats are doing now, of costing the Democrats both the house and the senate, possibly with a big enough margin to see Joe Biden impeached (and a slim chance of being removed from office). 

I think the reason is to further corrupt Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts is already dirty and it's clear that he cares way more about not angering the powers that be as opposed to actually deciding important cases. This bill is a threat to the integrity of the Supreme Court which Roberts seems to care about (at least in terms of size). With the threat don't expect Roberts to vote for anything controversial even though the other justices are chomping at the bit for it.