On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) added his voice to expand the Supreme Court to a “baker’s dozen,” or thirteen members to allow Democrats to add justices who agree with him and Democratic members on how the law must be interpreted. In the meantime, as discussed earlier, court packing is being pushed as the new litmus test for any Democratic candidates. Clyburn’s “baker’s dozen” is a telling description of an effort to bake in partisan views on a Court expanded to create an instant liberal majority. In defending this hostile takeover of the Court, Clyburn bizarrely insisted that the failure to do so might lead to a return to antebellum conditions when blacks were being given fewer rights than whites.
When asked by host Kristen Welker whether he supports the call of former Vice President Kamala Harris to pack the Court, Clyburn responded:
“Yes, I do. I think that we are in a position now that calls for some significant actions taken by the Congress and we ought to expand. Thirteen is a pretty good number. A baker’s dozen would be a good number to have on the court. And I would hope we would get people on the Court who will follow the constitutional underpinnings of this great nation of ours.”
Clyburn then made the sensational claim that, without taking over the Court, blacks could be returned to virtual slave conditions. He added:
“The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments have been interpreted different ways over the years. And we had in the Warren Court an interpretation of those amendments that I thought would be set for the future of the country. We have now a Supreme Court that has decided to reverse course and take this country back, I say, to those rulings of Justice Taney that said that no black man has any rights that a white man must respect.”
So, while recognizing that interpretations have evolved, Clyburn now demands a takeover of the Court because he disagrees with the current interpretations. It was fine when interpretations aligned with his views, but opposing viewpoints are intolerable and warrant packing the Court with reliable liberal votes. Other Democrats have demanded packing the Court to reverse immigration rulings.
The unhinged rhetoric reflects the importance of taking over the Court by Democrats who view the institution as a barrier to carrying out a radical agenda, including proposals that are considered unconstitutional. Liberal professors and pundits have identified a court takeover as essential to, as one law professor put it, guaranteeing that the Democrats never lose another national election. As former Attorney General Eric Holder and Democratic strategist James Carville have made clear, it is about power and guaranteeing its retention.
Of course, these figures know that it will take a great deal to get Americans to trash core institutions and values. Polls have long shown that a majority of citizens oppose efforts to pack the Court. FDR’s infamous court-packing plan in the 1930s has been widely panned in history, but is now being used as a model by many Democrats to achieve short-term political goals.
In order to overcome this fealty to our constitutional system, citizens must be very angry or very afraid. That is why the rage rhetoric is increasing as we approach the midterm elections. In the last election, the prediction was the imminent end of democracy. Now it is the return to slavery conditions in the United States.
One can disagree with the Court without suggesting that these justices are effective racists or want to return the nation to pre-Civil War slavery conditions. The suggestion that the Court would return this country to the Dred Scott period from before the Civil War is deeply offensive to the conservative justices, including Justice Clarence Thomas, who is African American. It is an absurd suggestion and shows contempt not just for the Court but for Black voters.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Kirk has done the hard work of coming up with it. Now let every scientist, philosopher, and theologian across the land know that the answer to every question is “MORON ANON”.
Rule by decree is what the colonists tried to escape. Trump has brought it back.
“[Racial separation] [is necessary], and [though difficult] must be effected by colonization… The enterprise is a difficult one, but ‘where there is a will there is a way’; and what colonization needs most is a hearty will… Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and at the same time [not against] our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857
Why are you so proud of supporting a president who disrespects the constitutional principles that you claim to revere?
You mean Joe Biden? He said more than once he did not care it a law was unconstitutional.
can you name just one? Is the orange man in the room with you now?
What did the American colonists say to the British monarchy?
“We’re taking the colonies.”
How much —— are actual Americans going to take from these unassimilable, sacred cow, affirmative action, anti-American, anti-Constitution, past-and-present illegal alien foreign invaders?
You are fine with King Trump, though.
President Donald J. Trump.
WINNING!
2 Time President!!
Biden forced my wife to get the jab or lose her job.
That is what a tyrannical King does.
Upstate Farmer is Estovir, of course.
Joe Biden is Estovir too!
Hopefully she died
If you’re ok with losing all the time, we’re ok with winning.
If Trump were King he could say “Off with his head!” instead of “You’re fired!” that would be hilarious.
Star Congressman Brandon Gill says it may be time to test the Autopen pardons. Prosecute the Covid liars.
I hope that happens.
If forged pardons aren’t valid perhaps forged judicial appointments can also be set aside.
Clyburn makes it clear [as if it weren’t always true] that the Democrats want judges who rule on politics rather than the law.
They aspire to destroy the rule of law and they are well on their way to accomplishing that destructive goal.
Trump is getting shamelessly tyranncial with each passing day.
Your lips to God’s ears!
Your lips to my arse more like it…
From your lips to God’s ears, as I just said, Mr. Marx.
Do you have an example or is this post of yours your cathartic emotional outlet? TDS is for life.
Donald Trump should report himself to the FCC for posting a fake video about blowing up Kharg Island.
Ask Clybun why if 13 is SO important, why he hasn’t demanded it be done immediately.
“… What concerned the justices was that many of these injunctions directly contravened earlier precedent, exposing the cynical purpose of these orders. For a president to be able to carry out major changes, he had to run a gauntlet of hundreds of judges, any one of whom could effectively negate reforms. In response, the Supreme Court ramped up the use of the emergency docket and cracked down on national injunctions, quickly reversing the rapidly increasing number of injunctions against the Trump administration. …” -JT
The Long Shadow of Judge Indira Talwani
By: Jonathan Turley et. al. – Jonathanturley.org ~ August 31, 2026
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/08/31/the-long-shadow-of-judge-indira-talwani/
Suggestion:
9 Jurist for the Supreme Primary Docket
5 Jurist for the Supreme Emergency Docket
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14 Supreme Court Jurist ~ All amongst Equals with distinct Docket directives at the discretion of the Solicitor General.
Your faux reverence for the Constitution is a farce while you support a president who does the kinds of things that Putin would do.
Putin, you say?
You mean like the dictator and tyrant “Crazy Abe” Lincoln, who couldn’t pass the abolition legislation, so he started killing Americans.
That was 160 years ago. Can you please live in the present?
The Declaration of Independence was issued 250 years ago.
The Constitution of the United States of America was adopted 237 years ago.
The Bible was written beginning 3400 years ago.
Your Communist Manifesto was published 178 years ago because Marx rejected the freedom conferred by the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Lincoln again?? LAME!!! LDS at it’s finest!!!
kirksty, the one-trick filly does it again.
Like turning lose millions of illegal criminals to assault, rape, kidnap, rage and murder American women and even young girls?
Who did that?
Oh, yeah, Biden.
can you name one? just one?
Or are you just using this for emotional release? if so do you tell your therapist about it or keep it secret?
Do YOU feel you are getting better? Are you still having those anxiety dreams where you’re desperate find a bathroom?
Why would a black person be racist towards other black people?
Would Republican policies get better results for black voters?
Yes, GOP policies would be better for black voters.
Why did the betterness stop?
MORON ANON
because dirty leftys use race as a source of division for votes. Their platform can be described as ‘rage’.
“Be angrier for a better tomorrow!”
Is there evidence of this? If these policies were so good, then why did they stop? Why didn’t they continue?
MORON ANON
They did stop.
Once Trump was re-elected, he secured the border, preventing millions of illegals from entering and taking jobs from just about everyone at lower wages hurting just about everyone.
The Free Press ran an article on it. Interviewed a Green Card holder. That was his complaint. The illegals were taking jobs at lower wages.
So, yes, voting for Republicans/Trump improved their lives as they were getting paid better.
Did the black voters receive the jobs that illegals had?
If they wanted too.
Nice try, now answer you’re own question.
#. Let’s say 11. Eeny meany miney mo, that’s 2. Repubes get 1 demos get 1. No one needs more stupid on the court. Check transcripts for calculus grade and upper division science courses. Just shaddup Van Claiborne, stupid old coot.
Clyburn is a racist, plain and simple. Today, fearmongering bout “blacks” being deprived of civil rights to make excuses for his shabby political stunt. Yesterday, requiring Biden to nominate “blacks” for USA vice president on the D ticket and for the US Supreme Court. Racism!! spelled Clyburn!!!
Thetennants1970 is one Estovir’s oldest puppets.
Clyburn is a racist, plain and simple.
Clyburn is an indentured slave to the DNC Plantation. He can’t think for himself, hates the notion of blacks being free, preferring instead to let his White Massuhs decide his fate. It seems his Congressional district constituents in South Carolina think the same.
Clyburn campaigned for Biden in South Carolina and is largely credited for the black vote in SC. In return for his servitude, Clyburn told Kamala after the Biden/Harris inauguration, that he wanted Biden to nominate South Carolina US Federal Judge J. Michelle Childs to SCOTUS. Alas, Judge Childs had a conservative history as a US District Judge and, like Clarence Thomas, came from an impoverished family. She was born in Detroit, and after her father died, her mother moved to South Carolina to raise Michelle as a single / widowed mother. Childs is a devout Roman Catholic and very active in her parish ministries in SC. She was labeled by the Associated Press as showing “no mercy” towards a group of college students, sentencing them to 25 years, for orchestrating one of the largest armored car heists in U.S. history, leading to the theft of over $9 million, per SCOTUS Blog. Translation: she believes in accountability. Additionally Childs did not attend Ivy League schools. She attended the University of South Florida for college, then University of South Carolina for law school. The Marxist wing of the Democrat Party under Biden’s faux presidency naturally went apoplectic on Clyburn’s nominee for SCOTUS. Instead we got screwed with Ketanji by Biden’s progressive staff. Judge Michelle Childs was eventually nominated and confirmed by the US Senate to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by a Senate vote of 64-34. Sen. Lindsay Graham was an enthusiastic supporter for Childs as well.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00260.htm
Ketanji was a different animal altogether though I am not a Veterinarian. US Senate vote for him/her/dem was 53-47.
Clyburn hustled for his white masters to get cognitively impaired Biden in the White House. Biden’s junior staff responded by ignoring Clyburn out right, kicked him to the curb, and catapulted the black idiot with a lily white family history to SCOTUS. Ketanji was conceived (figuratively speaking) by the White House admin under Biden. Clyburn and Ketanji had no formal connection while Clyburn and Childs did. Childs didnt have a prayer under Biden’s SJW junior staff.
in the end, Clyburn was Biden’s boy while Biden’s admin saw Clyburn as a no-body. While Childs likely would not have been another Clarence Thomas (also a Roman Catholic and raised in the Deep South), since he is a cut above the rest, presumably she would have been a better choice, in light of the Senate vote on Childs for US Court of Appeals
Clyburn’s Congressional district 6 (South Carolina) has a much higher poverty rate than the national average
POVERTY
Poverty & Diversity
19.8% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Congressional District 6, SC (140k out of 706k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 12.5%. …The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Congressional District 6, SC is Black, followed by White and Hispanic.
datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-6-sc
Estovir,
Thank you for that bit of history and insight.
anytime bruh!
As you progress in your medical science studies, you will become accustomed to reading articles with heavy scientific jargon like the one I provided you recently on immunology. This learned skill set will be a formidable advantage for you. Once you train yourself to reading, analyzing, critiquing and perhaps writing your own scientific reports, reading non-scientific content will be a breeze. The sad fact is that Americans largely have lost cognitive skills. The internet and smart phones are said to be largely to blame. They have the attention span of a squirrel, and asking them to read Aristotle, St. Augustine, Alexis de Tocqueville or SCOTUS cases is unrealistic. That will not be your problem however, if you keep with the academic science journey. I hope you do
An insincere leftist. Anyone who agrees with him is ok in his book but the rest of us are racists to him.
But again, he’s just a angry old coot.
How do all the Donald Trump fans in the comments get around the fact that he promised umpteen times not to start any new wasteful wars in the Middle East and then after a visit from Mossad head and Netanyahu he started the Iran war? How many important policies is he going to fail on or reverse himself before some people who have been his lickspittles will admit there has been a serious failure?
SS
Iran started it and Israel exasperated it, America under Trump will bring an end to it. How many troops deployed into Iran?
Exacerbated
Trump will asperate and expirate it.
The Islamic Regime is murdering and suppressing their own citizens. Are you some sort of ghoul?
Do you care about them at all or are you ok with the IR just mowing them down with machine guns?
So sorry if now you have to pay a little more at the pump Mr. privileged American but we like helping free people from tyrannical horrors.
Must you support the murderers ALL the time? can you just help out the little guy just once Mr entitled American Joe? AND you have TDS. Disgraceful!
“A baker’s dozen” is quaint but won’t be remembered after our home-going. It’s something to hang your hat on, otoh.
Yes, Justices are like donuts. You never know what you’ll get.
~ James Gump
^^^ memetic use as “bakers dozen” or bad luck 13 perhaps. We don’t intend to crucify anyone.
Professor Turley writes, “It is an absurd suggestion and shows contempt not just for the Court but for Black voters.”
I don’t think black voters got the memo.
Are you saying that the black voter is too stupid or too lazy to get to the polls?
They get to the polls just fine. What they pull the leaver for is not fine.
Lever, not leaver.
They vote for whom they choose, just like everyone else.
Wait, so this mythical political black man is just like everyone else? the dems have lied to us! especially biden.
I have a few black friends, I’m going to ask them if they breath oxygen like I do. We might even be distant cousins!
They vote for their entitlement handouts.
Diogenes and the Quiet Man are both Estovir having a bogus ‘conversation’.
BOGUS MORON ANON
Kirk, you’re also Estovir!
If it will quiet the voices in your head, I’ll volunteer to be estovir today.
It’s like this guy’s a celebrity anyway…
I am not Estovir. Sorry to disappoint.
I too am not Estovir. But I am Napolean Bonaparte!
Clyburn gave us Kamala as VP candidate to assure Biden could win in 2020.
Remember it only counts as “democracy” if the correct result occurs. S@@ew your “democracy”!
Democracy the god that failed – Hans Herman Hoppe
https://dn721606.ca.archive.org/0/items/911-material/Pdfs/Democracy%20The%20God%20That%20Failed.pdf
antonio