Media Pushes Supreme Court-Packing by Liberal Democrats

To Liberals & Democrats the Constitution is outdated & the U.S. is living in a past of oppression. By Patrick Hauf     Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C.  Justice Anthony Kennedy made waves late last month when he announced hed be retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court immediately launching a flurry of anti-Trump outrage from the leftist media who feared that a Republican president would get another shot at nominating a Supreme Court o the United States justice. Theres just one problem: All that outrage is wildly hypocritical. With President Donald Trump set to announce his nominee for the vacant Supreme Court seat this evening (Monday night) at 9 p.m. EST lets look back at four times the liberal media has called for Democrats to pack the Supreme Court.

1. Constitutional Originalist Justices are Immoral

In an article written June 28th 2018 entitled There is One Way to Fix the Supreme Court" the author appears to write under an anonymous Twitter account arguing that conservatives are abusing the Supreme Court to support their supposed oppressive conservative agenda.

For anyone with a soul the Supreme Courts most recent term has been gut-wrenching" instantly suggesting that conservatives and constitutional originalist justices are immoral.

This demonizing tactic of declaring the opposition as evil is a dangerous way to justify any means of resistance. And the only way for progressives to stop the bad guys is to block Trumps nominees and add Supreme Court Justices when back in power.

2. Progressive Change: Its Time to Pack the Supreme Court

Todd N. Tucker makes a similar argument in his article In Defense of Court Packing" also published on June 28th. He focuses on the necessity of radical progressivism in America arguing that the conservatives resistance to it must be bulldozed over for the sake of democracy.

We shouldnt let a handful of reactionary judges get in the way of progressive change. Its time to pack the Supreme Court open the story.

In closing Tucker writes: A thoughtful court-packing proposal would ensure that the Court more carefully reflects the mores of the time rather than shackling democracy to the weight of the past.

With inequality and human rights abuses spiraling upward and justices making it all worse the time to begin mainstreaming an enlarged Court is now" 

Here the go-to progressive talking point is evident. To progressives the Constitution is outdated and the U.S. is living in a past of oppression. Therefore the Constitution should be disregarded in favor of progressivism; an ideology contrary to the classical liberalism of the Founders.

3. The New Republic: There is no good outcome in this scenario.

In an article titled Democrats: Prepare to Pack the Supreme Court" author Scott Lemieux argues It would be very unwise for Democrats to rule anything out" because Republicans may begin an anti-Democratic rearguard on the Supreme Court."

If Donald Trump is able to replace Kennedy and God forbid Justices Stephen Breyer and/or Ginsburg as well? There is no good outcome in this scenario. 

Despite its desperate tone the article was actually written in May 2018 prior to Justice Kennedys retirement. One can only wonder how frantic the author is now.

4. Slate: 

Writer Ian Millhiser recently tweeted his article from 2015 entitled In Defense of Court-Packing" where he details the history of court packing in the U.S. that the previous three listed articles only briefly explain. Millhiser summarizes the history of how FDR attempted and failed to add six justices to the Supreme Court in 1937 to push through his New Deal. The U.S. successfully added or subtracted justices from the court seven times all of which were in the 19th Century. Millhiser references how at a time Obama was fighting against the Supreme Court regarding Obamacare arguing that someone will eventually add judges to the Supreme Court inferring Democrats should be the ones to do so. Court packing is a radical abuse of power that hasnt been tried in the U.S. since the 19th Century for good reason. The Supreme Court should never be considered a partisan institution but rather a protector of the Constitution. If Republicans ever packed the Supreme Court the media would rightfully outrage but so long as it benefits the Democrats the idea of court packing is fascinating and even necessary. Oh well for principle over party.