{"id":191224,"date":"2021-03-01T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/court-packing-would-destroy-our-system-of-impartial-justice\/"},"modified":"2021-03-01T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T00:09:00","slug":"court-packing-would-destroy-our-system-of-impartial-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/court-packing-would-destroy-our-system-of-impartial-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"#Court-packing would destroy our system of impartial justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Court-packing would destroy our system of impartial justice<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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President Biden recently announced the creation of a commission to recommend \u201creforms\u201d to the judicial system. The commission will likely provide cover for the \u00adunpopular, divisive idea of court-packing. In a few months, no doubt, it will churn out a prepackaged recommendation to legitimize court-packing, while laying the groundwork for legislation to overhaul our judicial system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Regardless of what Biden\u2019s commission recommends, court-packing is a horrible idea. It \u00addestroys judicial independence and transforms judges into political actors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden himself criticized court-packing last October, saying, \u201cThe last thing we need to do is turn the Supreme Court into just a political football, whoever has the most votes gets whatever they want. Presidents come and go. Supreme Court justices stay for generations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

As our society becomes \u00adincreasingly polarized along partisan lines, the Supreme Court should be kept free from politics. The independence of the judiciary is too important to jeopardize just so Democrats can achieve their \u00adpolitical goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Team Biden is\u00a0considering this proposal in response to serious and sustained pressure from its far-left base. At its heart, this is political symbolism with real- world impacts. Former President Donald Trump nominated justices to fill empty seats, and the Senate confirmed these nominees, following the letter of the Constitution. Past precedent supports the choices made by Republicans, and Democrats are attempting to obscure historical facts for political gain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Democrats are outraged not \u00adbecause of any unfairness, but because the left wants a \u00adSupreme Court that will uphold progressive policies regardless of what the Constitution says. Democrats like Biden weren\u2019t open to the idea of court-packing until they decided it was their golden ticket to winning \u00adunchecked power.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some members of the Democratic Party aren\u2019t willing to bow to these extreme voices. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has voiced his strong opposition to court-packing, saying, \u201cWhen they talk about packing the courts or ending the filibuster, I will not vote to do that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials in the Biden administration are pretending the commission will discuss other issues, but the focus will inevitably center on court-packing, a tried and failed favorite of the left.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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President Joe Biden speaking in the White House on February 27, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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The administration\u2019s choice of Caroline Fredrickson to join the commission is a telling sign. She is the author of \u201cThe AOC Way: The Secrets of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s Success\u201d and has \u00adexpressed sympathy for court-packing<\/p>\n

Liberals\u2019 flirtation with court-packing dates back to the 1930s, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt became incensed with the Supreme Court because it was holding unconstitutional parts of his New Deal, so he proposed expanding the high court by six seats. Fortunately, this proposal proved to be a political blunder, as even Democrats turned against him, voting down his bill 70-20 in the Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The same concerns about judicial independence that doomed FDR\u2019s efforts app<\/a>ly today. We don\u2019t need the Supreme Court to be turned into a political institution, with its justices acting as politicians in robes, deciding cases based on their politics \u00adinstead of the words of a statute or the Constitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Court-packing rips apart the judicial impartiality that allows the court to stay above the fray in these challenging times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former Sen. Orrin Hatch eloquently articulated the opposition to court-packing, writing, \u201cHistorically, opposition to court-packing has been bipartisan because both parties have recognized the importance of \u00adjudicial independence to a healthy democracy. Indeed, the lack of judicial independence in the British Empire was one of the reasons that motivated the Founders to sign the Declaration of Independence in the first place.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Expanding the court to ensure a Democratic majority would change the Supreme Court from an independent juridical body to a rubber stamp for a Democratic agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1983, a younger Joe Biden resoundingly rejected court-packing. \u201cIt was a bonehead idea [when FDR tried it],\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. And it put in question, if for an entire decade, the independence of the most-significant body .\u2009.\u2009. in this country, the \u00adSupreme Court of the United States of America.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Biden would do well to abandon his flirtations with court-packing. Otherwise, he risks unraveling the integrity and legitimacy of our judicial system\u00a0\u2014 inflicting irreversible damage on our great republic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eric Schmitt, Chris Carr and Steve Marshall\u00a0are the attorneys general<\/a> of Missouri, Georgia and Alabama, respectively, and officers of the Republican Attorneys General Association.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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