Various Democrats have been openly discussing their plans after retaking power to change the system so they never lose power again. Democratic strategist James Carville has been one of the most vocal and returned to the subject this week in laying out how they will make D.C. and Puerto Rico states and pack the Supreme Court with a liberal majority.
On his podcast with Al Hunt, Carville explained, “If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico [and] D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F— it. Eat our dust.”
Notably, this week, New Jersey just elected a radical new member, Analilia Mejia, who ran on packing the Court and other radical agenda items. While some of us have written about the expansion of the Court, these politicians and pundits are pushing for the packing, not just gradual expanding, of the Court.
However, Carville (curiously on a national podcast) seriously suggested that Democrats should keep the plan quiet: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”
Call it the Nike School of Constitutional Law.
The need of the left to pack the Supreme Court is obvious. Many of the proposals coming from the left are clearly unconstitutional. You will need a partisan majority to make the political changes that these figures hope will give the Democrats a lock on power for years to come.
Years ago, Harvard professor Michael Klarman laid out a radical agenda to change the system to guarantee Republicans “will never win another election.” However, he warned that “the Supreme Court could strike down everything I just described.” Therefore, the court must be packed in advance to allow these changes to occur.
Likewise, Carville previously explained how this process of how the pack-to-power plan would work:
“I’m going to tell you what’s going to happen. A Democrat is going to be elected in 2028. You know that. I know that. The Democratic president is going to announce a special transition advisory committee on the reform of the Supreme Court. They’re going to recommend that the number of Supreme Court justices go from nine to 13. That’s going to happen, people.”
The push for court packing and war chests on the left remains unchanged despite conservatives on the Court ruling against the Administration on major cases. Carville and others cannot claim that the conservative justices are robotically voting with the Administration, but it does not matter. They want a Court that will consistently uphold the changes being planned by Democratic strategists.
The fact that these changes would come after the 250th anniversary of the most successful democratic system in history is a crushing irony. However, it is notable that the Democrats want Congress and the courts to push through these changes, not the public. The public remains opposed to court packing and making D.C. a state. That is why Carville wants candidates to keep quiet on the plan and run, like Virginia’s Abigail Spanberger, as faux moderates. Then, as in Virginia, they can move to fundamentally change districts and rules to guarantee their hold on power.
It is a mentality summed up by NEA President Becky Pringle:
The question is whether rage politics can convince a people to destroy the very democratic system that has brought centuries of stability and prosperity.
Escalating his attacks on Pope Leo XIV, Donald J. Trump claimed on Thursday that the pontiff’s election last year was “totally rigged.”
“There were a lot of ballots cast against him that were just burned,” he said. “You could see the smoke coming from the Vatican.”
Trump blasted Leo as “a terrible person and very ungrateful, quite frankly,” arguing that “he never would have become Pope without my help.”
“It was my idea to send JD to Rome in 2025,” Trump explained. “If he hadn’t gone, Pope Francis would still be alive and Leo would still be a crummy cardinal.”
Things seem to be going well in Texas.
A coalition of business groups, restaurateurs, and lawmakers in Texas has been formed to push back against the anti-immigrant policies of Donald Trump’s administration as sales collapse and companies struggle to find employees.
There is tension in the deeply conservative state, as the economic impact on restaurants, in particular, is no longer tenable, with owners considering closing up shop.
Jesus Jiménez, the owner of the Revolver Taco Lounge in Dallas, claimed day-to-day business reminded him of the year COVID shut the country down — but worse.
About 50 percent of Texas restaurants reported that they were not profitable last year, up from 38 percent in 2024, according to the Texas Restaurant Association. Some of that has been the result of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. In Texas, where by some estimates nearly 10 percent of the work force is undocumented — compared with about 4.5 percent of the U.S. work force — restaurant owners have said that the crackdown has created a chilling effect among their workers, regardless of their immigration status.
“I think the vast majority of Americans recognize that there is a large group of undocumented immigrants who have been literally keeping food on our tables,” said Kelsey Erickson Streufert of the Texas trade group, according to the Times. “And if we remove those people, it is going to hurt everyone in terms of higher prices.”
The strain on labor has extended to Texas’s agriculture industry. Sam Lash, a co-founder of Farm to Table, a wholesale company based in Texas that connects local farmers with chefs, said farms across the state were struggling to find workers.
“There’s been a really symbiotic relationship between Texas farmers, Texas restaurant owners and immigrant labor for many generations,” Lash said. “I’ve been doing this for 18 years, there has never been a time where it is more difficult to access consistent, reliable, skilled labor from immigrants.”
Carville is just admitting that the Democrat party’s ideas are so bad that they have to rig elections with illegal voters and pack SCOTUS with more judges like Ketanji Brown Jackson to gain and stay in power.
But then that pesky old 2nd Amendment comes into play.
That will be one of the first things eliminated.
“Yay. The Strait that was open before we began bombing Iran open, is open again,” she posted to X. “Everybody pretend this is a huge victory for Trump so he’ll end this catastrophe.”
Ann Coulter
Prof Turley, thanks for posting that wonderful and greatly disturbing, way over the top, NEA video. It is quite appalling to think that this organization is a representation of our primary and secondary teachers.
IF Democrats gain power of both houses and the WH, re-opened borders and this kind of thing something I have to be concerned about?
Afghan Man Arrested For Series Of Rapes Of Goats And Sheep In France
https://rmx.news/article/france-afghan-man-arrested-for-series-of-rapes-of-goats-and-sheep-animal-protection-organization-vows-to-take-this-barbarian-to-court/
@Upstate
In a word, ‘Yes.’. I am glad that non-border states (this all began with NAFTA) are finally beginning to see why this was always a very bad idea. That is a long time to get a point. My hope is that it does not take an equal amount of time to course correct.
Farmers like Thomas Jefferson have had sex with their property for millennia, and the animals generally like it, which is one reason they domesticated. If you read the story, what’s barbaric is to tie them up and do it with someone else’s property.
Trump is giving illegal orders to the U.S. Department of Justice for not indicting political enemies fast enough. Pam Bondi presumably was fired for not weaponizing the DOJ fast enough against Trump’s political enemies.
Isn’t it a felony crime under the Hatch Act and federal “color of law” criminal statutes for any politician to abuse their constitutional authority in this way?
Trump (34x convicted felon) made a promise to his GOD to follow the U.S. Constitution and not do things like this with his Oath of Office.
How could law enforcement officials and TV preachers support a president that is highly (and intentionally) disloyal to his Oath of Office (to follow laws and Constitution) and disloyal to his own religion? Maybe this is why many former Trump Republicans are totally opposed to this president.
If you are a Republican and have no respect for laws, no respect for the U.S. Constitution and no respect for your own religious values – what happens when Democrats do the same thing? Democrats will cite Trump’s example to not respect laws either.
And what in the ever living f–k does that have to do with today’s topic? You anonymous morons just like to come on here and tell everyone how deranged you are with TDS. You can’t even stick to the topic. All you ever think about is Trump. Newsflash: other things are going on. Stick to the f—–g topic.
TDS moron, the topic is about how Democrats are openly calling to overthrow the government.
Correct and succinctly put, anon. They’ve used lawlessness so it gets no respect. You expected something else in h€ll? One big dumpster fire is it’s category.
your TDS is showing again,
@Anonymous
As with every day, all day (sigh), you are an idiot. No, no such things are happening. Let the grownups talk.
Let’s talk about those 34 felonies. If that wasn’t an example of Joe burns abuse of official power, convince yourself that Trump won’t declare a national emergency if Dems try to subvert the rule of law—
NO RESPECT FOR YOU!!!!
It’s funny you don’t cite a single law that you think president Trump has violated. You can claim anything you want but damn details.
Gee, it’s not like the Repubs haven’t tried change the system so they can maintain control. Both the Dems and Repubs are in it for themselves and their wealthy benefactors who are the real decision makers.
That kind of both-sidesism doesn’t work anymore, in an age where Dems are increasingly just lunatic, psychotic, crazy, and totally insane . . . as vividly illustrated by the mental breakdown of “good old boy” James Carville. To take one example, you don’t see Republicans vowing to pack the Supreme Court when they’re out of power.
OldManFromKS,
Well said.
You also do not see Republicans faking themselves as moderates to dupe voters and then once elected go full on hard right. Or, as I pointed out, faking to be a Republican to win an election and actually be a Democrat.
Upstate – and another I didn’t mention: it is now mainstream Dem culture to rely on violence and assassinations, and to speak openly about it and encourage others to be violent, including by Dem members of Congress such as Maxine Waters. The examples of this are legion.
OldManFromKS,
That is a good point.
GEB mentioned the possibility of assassinations and violence. I said I hoped that would not happen, but when you have a sizeable part of a country who gleefully celebrates the assassination of Charlie Kirk, or laments the shooter was not a good shot in the Trump assassination attempt, I would not put it past Democrats to justify violence or even civil war to get power and keep it.
Carville and others in the Democrat party have come out and said what they are ready and willing to do to ensure Republicans never win an election again.
To protect democracy, of course. /sarc
proof?
The hard left was violent in the 60’s. Today they have a larger following so I expect an increase invilence and severity.
the right was way more violent in the 60s. Klan? Citizens counsils? Violence against Civil Rights Activists?
Allat was Dems. maroon.
Most of that violence you talk about was from the left and the Southern KKK was comprised of Democrats. Even those like Richard Spencer who created the alt-right aligned themselves with no party though supported either party to promote themselves. Spencer, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and antisemitic conspiracy theorist supported a number of left wing ideas; the best example was his support for national healthcare. Today much of the left has adopted his antisemitism. The left continues to move to the extreme.
Trump can declare martial law and have the Dems arrested who are fomenting
Just learn to accept the fact that the faces of the dem party are: AOC, jasmine crocket, adam schiff, the late but not great swalwell, pelosi, schumer, pritzker, hochul, mamdani, newsome, lititia james, boasberg, and this old nutcase – carville. Oh wait, I missed both obamas and the obama/autopen guy, all those liars that promoted the russian collustion hoax, both clintons and let’s not forget that incompetent DEI hire on SCOTUS who can’ define what a woman is.
whimsicalmama,
While I agree, they are the faces, it is who is behind them with the money, connections that I am more interested in. Who is it who is pushing for socialism, who is backing the DSA, who is it who backs all those so-called grass roots protests with their same printed signs at the “No Kings” protests.
Are you dumb? You think the dsa supports those dinos?hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahaha
hahahhahahha DSA supporting Pelosi hahahhahhahaha
@whimsicalmama
Yuo, and that is also the plan to capture younger and very naive voters. It is working, even though the likes of the squad were placed, not elected, at least initially. Amazing how many of these dem candidates pop up from out of nowhere, as if by magic. The Columbia crowd in NYC love it, because they are young, and stupid, and have never worked a day in their lives. And they will absolutely vote for it.
One would think, ‘But they have adult parents in their lives that know better.’. No, at this point, they do not. Not anymore. My grandparents were the ‘greatest generation’, and they have all been gone for 20 years at this point. Huh. the average age of a matriculating freshman. That means that memory does not exist in their families. My wife teaches middle school, and the students have no idea what happened, nor its implications, on 9/11.
This is where we are at. It could all disappear, quite quickly.
*You
Examples?
OT
Justice Thomas, I give you an axiom and a corollary from communist theorists:
“The goal of Socialism is Communism.”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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“The goal of [Progressivism] is Communism.”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Boring.
Based on the physical weight of the speaker and of those clapping behind her, one might hope that the nation will be saved because heart disease and diabetes might do away with them all before 2028.