Alert — Wyden Bill to pack Supreme Court!!!

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has submitted the Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act.   It would expand the Supreme Court to 15 justices over 12 years. It would also increase the number of federal circuit courts to 15, adding more than 60 new circuit judges and 100 new district court judges.

Judicial Network lays out more of what it does:

❌Pack the Supreme Court with 6 more justices.

❌Harass the justices with mandatory yearly IRS audits.

❌Require a ruling by two-thirds of the Supreme Court and the circuit courts of appeals to overturn a law passed by Congress rather than a simple Court majority.

❌Expand the number of federal judicial circuits from 13 to 15 — adding more than 100 district court judges and more than 60 appellate-level judges — so Democrats can stack the federal bench with more unfit radicals.

❌Weaken the Senate’s power of advice and consent by requiring Supreme Court nominees to be automatically scheduled for a vote if their nominations stall in committee.
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Packing the Supreme Court is something that even the Supreme Court’s most famous liberals have opposed:

“I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court.”
– Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg NPR (2019)

“Structural alteration motivated by the perception of political influence can only feed [the perception that the Supreme Court is political], further eroding that trust.”?
– Justice Stephen Breyer,
Harvard Lecture (2021)

Other voices oppose court packing:

“We are Democrats…But we oppose expanding the size of the U.S. Supreme Court. An independent Supreme Court is fundamental to America’s system of checks and balances. It’s the only institution that can settle difficult, divisive questions about the meaning of the law in a way that both sides can accept. An independent Supreme Court that interprets the law is critical to the rule of law itself. It sets an example for emerging democracies around the word.Expanding the court could exacerbate the problems we’re trying to address. A larger court increases the risk of a highly skewed, unbalanced court. The larger the court, the longer it would take to restore a balance.”
By former Congress Members,
Jill Long Thompson and Nick Rahall

 

You can contact your Oregon U.S. Senators:

• Senator Ron Wyden’s Office phone or email here.

• Senator Merkley Office phone or email here.

 

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