Supreme Court justices have denounced Democrats’ and their dark money allies’ desire to add seats to the Supreme Court in order to change its ideological balance.
“Nine seems to be a good number. It's been that way for a long time. … I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court.”
– Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
NPR (2019)
"If anything [court packing] would make the court look partisan."
– Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
NPR (2019)
"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)
Will Judge Jackson speak up like Justice Ginsburg and Justice Breyer or will she let her dark money court packing backers speak for her?
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