We have been discussing the recent talking point emerging from the Biden campaign and Democratic leaders on court packing. While continuing to refuse to state their position on packing the Supreme Court to create an ideological majority, various Democratic figures have been calling the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett (and all of the Trump nominees) a form of court packing. A recent Gallup poll found only 32 percent of voters thought that the Supreme Court was dominated by conservatives.
This weekend, Sen. Chris Coons (D., Del.) on Fox News Sunday said that the Barrett nomination “constitutes court packing.” Both Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Cal.) have also referred to nominating conservatives a court packing. Harris said in the debate that if you want “to talk about court packing . . .
The polls show that most Americans are against court packing. A recent Rasmussen poll found that 55 percent of Americans opposed any court packing plan and only 27 percent was in favor of the idea. The problem is that the Democratic base is more divided with some Democratic voters calling for extreme measures if the Democrats take over both Congress and the White House. Rather than irritate those voters, the Democrats are saying that voters will have to wait until after they elect Biden to know whether they are pack the Court.
However, in the Gallup poll, 42 percent of voters view the court as evenly split. Only 32 percent felt it was too conservative and 23 percent said it was too liberal. Those last two numbers reflect the same percentage at the extremes of our political debate of roughly 25 – 30 percent of voters. The rest of us are in the middle.
Notably, 58 percent of Democrats stated that the court has shifted too far to the right. However, that leaves 42 percent even among Democrats who are not signing on with this packing narrative.
When asked if the Court is balanced ideologically, 48 percent of independents said that it was balanced.
The polling confirms the view that this narrative is tailored for the 25-30 percent of Democratic voters who are seeking extreme measures if they gain control of the Congress and the White House. It also suggests a likely bait-and-switch in the making after the election.
If Republicans were openly planning to expand the Supreme Court in order to stuff it with ideologues, who would rule from the bench instead of just applying the law as written, there would be riots in the street. It would be called a power grab. Tyranny. Dictatorship.
Throw it on the pile of coup plans, including abolishing the Electoral College.
Democrats support tyranny as long as they think they will be the ones in power. Recall the Democrat senator who told Judge Barrett she wished she was a benevolent queen who could just run everything the way she wanted.
yesss karen you got it
fracturing the United States so we can shuck off the useless states like California needs to enter the “realm of possibility”
our very lives may depend on this election and what then eventually we are prepared to do, submit or end this failing experiment, peaceably, or otherwise