Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) has been struggling with other members of the Democratic establishment to appease the far-left radicals in her party. Last week, she insisted that she was not concerned about the rising socialist movement in her party. Sixty-five percent of Democratic voters now support socialism and a shocking 60% would support a military coup. Now Dean is throwing the Supreme Court to the mob, declaring that the institution is “corrupted,” the common claim of court-packers to justify a hostile takeover of the Court. She has joined an ignoble list of politicians who choose personal power over our constitutional principles.
Dean went on MS NOW to show her radical bona fides in an interview with host Jonathan Capehart, who raised the favorite talking point of how the Republicans were seeking to steal the next election.
Dean immediately turned the question into an attack on the Court, expressing her concern “about a United States Supreme Court that has been so corrupted.”
It is a narrative that is entirely unconnected to reality. As I discussed in a recent column, the Court continues not only to rule against this president in major cases but also to rule unanimously or nearly unanimously in the vast majority of cases.
Dean’s criticism of the Court is particularly ironic in the same week the Court again ruled against Republicans in an election case by rejecting, for a third time, the effort to redesign voting districts before the midterm elections.
The false narrative is part of a concerted effort by Democratic politicians to condition voters into accepting court packing. Professors and pundits are now demanding that court-packing be an actual litmus test for Democratic candidates.
The reason is a sad statement about the state of American politics. Presented with the prospect of guaranteeing power for years by rejecting our constitutional values and traditions, politicians like Dean are choosing power.
Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder has put packing the Supreme Court front and center, explaining, “[We’re] talking about the acquisition and the use of power if there is a Democratic trifecta in 2028.”
It is the Nike School of Constitutional Law. Democratic leaders are pledging to “just do it” to appease the mob. Of course, some of these measures would be challenged if done without constitutional amendment. The Supreme Court would then have to rule on the effort to pack or limit its members. The expansion can be done by legislative vote. Although most Americans oppose court packing, Democrats view control of the Court as essential to pushing through a radical agenda to change the political system to their advantage.
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 make these changes possible.
In the same way that a vast majority of Democratic voters now say that they would favor a military coup in the name of “saving democracy,” Democratic politicians are claiming to protect our constitutional system by destroying it with court packing.
Every leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination has now embraced court-packing, a new litmus test for the far left.
It is the ultimate form of corruption … in politicians like Rep. Dean. Presented with a clear choice between power and principle, they choose power.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Now do an analysis of what Project 2025 wants to do to America.
They want to Make America Great Again.
A politician with principles. Now that’s a novel idea.
Maybe the time has come to follow the progressive playbook and bow to their demands. Congress should submit and pass a bill tomorrow morning (October 30, 2026) to add 20 more justices to SCOTUS before December 31, 2028. That should fill progressives with the feeling of great accomplishment and pride.
Where do you come with such childish stupidity?
JT, as usually an excellent article. BUT as always, NO solution! WHICH MEANS A WASTE OF TIME TO READ. We are already in an insurrection. The NM delegation “appears” to supports Hamas, Iran and the over throw of our government.
@ERB
Um, that’s the point. This is obviously a huge problem, and it does not fall on the shoulders of the Professor or anyone else to do your thinking for you. Like it or not, YOU have to decide, and YOU have to be a part of the solution. We all do. Passivity died when Nancy tore up the speech on camera. 🤷🏽♂️
“BUT as always, NO solution! WHICH MEANS A WASTE OF TIME TO READ.”
This unwarranted criticism of JT pops up now and again.
You read an article warning against the dangers of overeating, with the conclusion: Don’t do it.
How is that “don’t do it” *not* a solution? And how is that article a “waste of time to read.” (BTW, all caps shows hysteria, not emphasis.)
Finally, rather than kvetch, why don’t you offer what you would regard as a “solution?”
Its an opinion piece. Do you understand what that is?
If you’re looking for guidance, aka a Guru, then you should read comic books.
( from Google AI search for Jacobins and the judicial system) “During the French Revolution, the Jacobins viewed the traditional court system and royal judges with deep hostility, suspicion, and contempt, seeing them as corrupt remnants of feudal privilege. Over time, their philosophy evolved from wanting a highly restricted, democratized judiciary into completely replacing standard law with “revolutionary justice”—subordinating judges and courts to state control to eliminate enemies of the Republic” It appears that we have our own Jacobin revolutionaries already in congress and within our 2 branches of government – our legislative and judicial. What would be the most efficient way to fumigate both chambers and their state level counter parts.
We all knew you were a fraud and now you admit it that you have used AI to generate your insane irrelevant comments.
You are just a pile of ignorance, aren’t you? Quoting from a source that corroborates your views is how research is done and published. It would be my guess that you never had to write a term paper using on the Reader’s Guide to Periodic Literature and the local library card catalogue to find your sources, and then type that term paper on a manual typewriter with every sentence and footnote perfectly done; no Grammarly, no search engines on the internet, nothing but your brain and your fingers. And it definitely shows.
What say we just cut to the chase here and offer a response the Democrats should pay very close to attention.
Even if one accepts the polling numbers of 60% what is being ignored is the strength of conviction of the 40% and that groups dedication to traditional American values that are under attack.
Do the Democrats (actually the small number of Democrats who are behind all of this) really think they have the ability to run over almost half of the Voters in this Country and do as they aspire to doing?
They might just look at one of those Red/Blue Maps and then look up gun ownership numbers in a companion map and consider very carefully what the two when combined shall communicate.
Then, while they ruminate on that they might then look to where the vast majority of the members of the US Military come form and just what kind to mindset those folks hold owing to their raising and backgrounds….and their commitment to defend the United States Constitution.
Let’s face it….some things are worth standing and dying for….and if it ever comes to a violent overthrow of the American way of life and its Government….the Democrats (all of them) best decide which path is best….adhering to our Constitutional processes or attempting to use violence of any kind or description to achieve the goals of the very small but vocal minority of their own Party and an even much smaller minority of the American People.
They best choose wisely…..all of the Democrats.
They choose wrongly and they shall wind up licking a Buzz Saw.
Let’s pray the Democrats come to their senses and reject those the Professor is describing he sees corrupting his own Democrat Party.
The red scare! Run for the hills!
Hey donkey – 60%.
Eventually, and soon if their ideas prevail, the mob will come for her. Ask Robespierre.
This court decided against Trump on birthright citizenship, tariffs, the Fed, the Alien Enemies Act, the Missouri redistricting (disregarding both standing and the merits to get there) and no doubt others. He has attacked his own appointees many times. The idea that it is in his pocket is absurd and a measure of the extremism of the Democrats.
The US Supreme Court is in the pocket of the Federalist Society billionaires. They were the ones who provided names for nomination to Trump. They are the ones shepherding members through the system to avoid controversial or noteworthy decisions to avoid any decisions that could expose them in order to make them bland and unobjectionable.
A cadre of extremists, holding tightly to the flawed and bizarre ideas of a man who never made a living and depended on bilking his parents and his wealthy acolyte, upended nations and brought to its people misery and starvation by the millions and murdered millions more.
The only thing socialists can produce are empty dreams and promises. They eventually have to sell the harsh reality once they are fully burrowed in office. The more the government grows the less freedoms the people will have.
There are many examples of how “wonderful” socialism is working, especially when it eventually takes its natural course toward communism and “collective” misery.
But, hey they are promising free stuff!
FOLLOW THE MONEY. One fact seems fundamental to these leftward primary transitions: the Democratic Party’s official machinery is short of cash. All candidates need money. That implies large sources of money exist outside the party committees themselves, and it implies Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer cannot steer the field the way party leaders once could. Thin official coffers mean less leverage for the standard agenda.
The numbers are specific. As of the end of August 2026, the Democratic National Committee reported about $16.9 million cash on hand and $17.6 million in debt. The Republican National Committee reported about $125.6 million and no debt. The three Republican national committees together held about $233 million, versus about $130 million for their Democratic counterparts, a gap of roughly $103 million. Add allied super PACs and the disparity grows: MAGA Inc. alone held about $416 million entering September; Senate Leadership Fund had about $238 million in midsummer, against about $126 million for Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC.
That does not mean Jeffries and Schumer have nothing. Jeffries’s campaign had raised about $15 million by mid-2026 and held about $5 million cash; he pledged $500,000 to the DCCC and offered to match members’ dues. Schumer’s campaign held about $8 million. The DSCC even entered September ahead of the NRSC ($37.6 million versus $18.7 million). Their constraint is relative power, not an empty wallet. They can still write checks. They cannot match the outside money now flowing to both establishment rivals and insurgent candidates.
As usual, another AI sourced comment. Can’t you AI fraudsters think for yourselves?
One poll of 1200 people and you think this is representative of the 330 million+ in the U.S.?
CRT!
DEI!
Trans!
Tan suit!
Birth certificate!
Muslims!
Cats and dogs!
Communism!
Socialism!
Epstein?
Squirrel!
Magats have TDS.
Bona fides you say. Dean better put on her track shoes, because there are at least three categories of bona fides that have been served up at the Democratic party table in the last 20 years.
Policy tests (Medicare for All, Green New Deal, abortion);
Institutional-reform tests (filibuster, Electoral College, Supreme Court size);
Cultural/identity signaling tests (#MeToo, BLM, gender terminology, Gaza solidarity).
– LGBTQ+
– Occupy Wall Street
– #MeToo
– Green New Deal
– Abolish ICE
– George Floyd
– Hands up, Don’t shoot
– Defund the police
– Covid restrictions
– Transgender movement
– Define a woman
– Anti-Israel/We are Palestine
And the next frontier is a throwback to the famed former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal. A white American Philadelphia activist, Hannah Gann, claimed she was of Black, Palestinian and Tunisian heritage. Yes, she has since retracted that claim, but that glass floor has been cracked.
Dean is just another brain-dead zombie-Democrat. The motto of the university law school where she was indoctrinated (Widener University Law School) proclaims as its motto: “Sound Mind in Sound Body,’ yet another misrepresentation of fact when examining Dean’s bona fides. It brings to mind Thomas Paine’s observation: “Trying to argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”`
May everyone please read President George Washington’s Farewell Address. In it, the Father Of Our Country explained it all.
Stephen, what he had to say reaches all the way down to us. And grabs us by the stacking swivel.
Oh Steve shut-up with your nostalgic nonsense. Its 2026 so grow up mentally.
Dems are just shooting themselves in their foot every time they do this crazy extremists left-wing nonsense. Mark my words as a a moderate Independent, it’s just going to harm them more and more in the long run. It may work on the two coasts, but that’s where it also ends, because but it’s not work where the rubber meets the road, with the rest of America
Are moderate Independents swinging toward Republicans or Democrats? Just maybe, crazy extremism isn’t limited to one Party.
Come On Man – ALL politicians are basically used car and timeshare salespeople who are agnostic!! They will say ANYTHING to get you to sign the deal with THEM!! Slimebags come in both sexes, all races, and RELIGIONS! Its only about being IN POWER because if you are out of power you can’t milk the system and get ‘rich or laugh trying’ right?