Kamala Harris is again promising the radical wing of her party that she will pack the Supreme Court. Pete Buttigieg and others have done the same to pander to the extreme left. These calls are increasing among Democratic leaders despite a recent poll showing that the Court remains the more popular institution vis-à-vis Congress, and that the majority of Americans agree with its major decisions.
The Marquette Law School poll shows that the Court remains slightly underwater in popularity (47% favor, 53% disfavor), but it is still much more popular than Congress or the two political parties. Moreover, that popularity is increasing, not decreasing, as a result of recent decisions. It was at 44% in 2025.
The mantra to pack the Court is premised on the false claim that the Court is ideologically robotic and partisan. That claim has always been disconnected from the actual voting record of the Court. Forty-four percent of cases are decided unanimously by the Supreme Court. When nearly unanimous cases (8-1 and 7-2) are included, that figure jumps to over 60 percent.
The liberal justices themselves have pushed back on the Democratic narrative. Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor have all contradicted these claims. Justice Kagan recently spoke publicly on these claims, “rejecting claims that the high court’s conservative majority is in President Donald Trump’s corner.”
The most recent poll shows that Americans agree with most of the major decisions in the last year.
The poll highlights a disconnect with the logic of court packers. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) have called for packing the Court because it does not follow her views and those of “widely held public opinion.” I have pushed back on that rationale given the Court’s function to be a countermajoritarian institution. However, this poll even challenges the flawed rationale for court packing.
Even the most controversial decisions break at around fifty percent. Notably, the opinion that Harris repeatedly denounces as an attack on democracy (barring racial gerrymandering) is supported by a majority of the country.
Yet, Democratic leaders and the far left continue the false claim that the Court is out-of-step with America and captured by the Administration. The reason is simple. The DSA and far left are threatening establishment candidates. They are throwing institutions such as the Supreme Court to the mob in an attempt to use them to regain power. It is not just tragic but pathetic. These establishment figures are unlikely to be safe from the mob. Hakeem Jeffries can call the Supreme Court “illegitimate” and brandish a baseball bat on social media, but the mob is still chanting “you’re next” when he appears on the screens at rallies.
For its part, the far left knows that the full agenda of changes that it wants to make to our constitutional system cannot occur without control of the Supreme Court. Law professors and deans are joining them in calling for the trashing of our Constitution and “radical changes” to our system. They will need control of the Court to achieve many of those changes.
So the American people may support the Court and favor its decisions, but it still needs to be packed with a liberal majority.
Harris and Buttigieg consider trashing the Supreme Court to be a small price to pay for their own election.
Kamala displays yet another manifestation of DEIers: Not enough sense to realize when they are no longer relevant.
Harris is hardly as stupid as you want to believe. But as you state, she’s no longer relevant, what she is in fact doing is trying to become relevant.
keep in mind the political offices she held, you think a complete idiot could have managed that?
Harris is so “yesterday,” as the kids say. And Pothole Pete panders to anyone who will listen. It’s educational and fascinating to watch career politicians selling their souls to remain popular. They remind me of the old saying about someone feeding fish to the alligator hoping he’ll eat them last. We now see the logic of Biden’s open borders strategy. He certainly didn’t know it but those who were operating the strings behind him used him usefully as a useless idiot. Mobs are needed to catch the attention of the public and the media and what better can one do than recruit foreign mobs to join the “revolution.” There are enough Americans left to give these hooligans a good shock this November. ICE is their biggest threat because it can diminish the mobs and has done so already in large numbers. The faculty lounge clowns, likewise, are a dying breed, as their prognostications come to nil. Speaking of clowns, the Democrats trying to hold on to their careers claim, when asked, that the DSA people are OK, that the Democrat party is a “Big Tent.” Barnum & Bailey also had a big tent…and it was full of clowns. The more things change, the more they remain the same!
Is there a point in there somewhere, anywhere?
More and more I’m impressed with the founding fathers’ creation of our separation of powers governance. They seemed to fully understand the nature of power and the consequences of power concentration.
The current Democrats, however, seem to have rejected that and desires to concentrate all power within Congress itself. Packing the court is effectively eliminating the court’s independence. Eliminating the Presidency and the Senate goes farther still. Buttigieg and Harris are followers, not leaders, perfect for a castrated Presidency – like Biden. Even within their party, we see a concentration of power, also reflective of their national goals.
concentrate all power within Congress = politburo. They’re on to something.
“[T]he far left knows that the full agenda of changes that it wants to make to our constitutional system cannot occur without control of the Supreme Court.” (JT)
If the DSA gets its way, America will no longer have a Supreme Court. That crucial check on government power will be replaced with a “policy court” — a panel of “policy judges” appointed by and answerable to a *single* legislative body, whose sole purpose is to enforce party doctrine. That is called a politburo, which is a key feature of a communist form of government. That is not a government of laws. That is a government of men.
In substance and in form, the Left’s vanguard is not socialist. It is thorough going communist.
To make changes to the “Constitutional system” need to be done by a majority of congress and the states. You know that – right?
Of the 500,000 electable positions in this country, how many does the DSA have? Go on, search it. Tip: two hands.
“. . . by a *majority* of congress and the states. You know that – right?” (emphasis added)
No, I didn’t know that. Because the Constitution does not require a majority. Consistent with that ignorance is your grasp about how such revolutionaries operate.
“. . . how many does the DSA have?”
Useful idiots have zero concept of the future. When you let a small wound fester, the body dies.
In 1903, Lenin (the DSA’s model for their “reimagining”) started with 33. By the time of the communist take over in 1917, he had some 200,000. Further, the DSA couldn’t care less about a dog catcher in Iowa. It’s primarily after the centerpiece of political power — the federal government.
Oh Sam stop being a Karen. Every time someone responds to one of your comments, you lose it.
Sam you got slapped down. Take it like a man.
I know I’m not the first person to suggest this, but I think President Trump should give her what she and other liberals want: assuming the GOP retains control of the Senate after the midterms, Trump should immediately nominate four conservative justices for SCOTUS.
Not without congress. Assuming? MAGA is in its death throes.
Where is Rodney King when we need him. . . .”Can’t we all get along”?
The liberal left wants to control everything, as if they were the anointed rulers of the world.
The conservative right wants to control everything, as if they were the anointed rulers of the world. Fixed it!
Like all polling, it depends on how the questions are framed. I could make a poll showing a selected number of views of Hitler was favored by most. The court has already been packed down thru the federal courts. It’s how you get Presidential immunity which will haunt us for decades if not centuries. I see there was no question about presidential immunity or partisan gerrymandering.
Hate to be “that guy” but if DJT weren’t such a colossal train wreck we wouldn’t have to worry about the insane proposals coming from the Dems. But he is—and then some—and we’re going to find out that these aren’t just proposals… They’re a blueprint for revenge. Not upon MAGA types but upon America. It’s not going to be pretty.
My sole remaining hope is that JD Vance is the incumbent president in 2028. Hope, and prayer. Not that I think Vance is the Second Coming but that as an incumbent he’ll have the best chance of winning.
Rubio
Train wreck? The USA in its entirety is a train wreck. Since way back.
Trump hasn’t done anything different than what others Presidents have done – amass power for a political agenda.
However no other president has ever had to deal with social media at its present scale.
Give an idiot a social media account, and what do you get?
There’s nothing social about social media.
Anyone can make a poll. And then try and convince people its legitimate. Its all poppycock.
Its not over until its over.