Speaker Pelosi should not talk with forked tongue on court-packing scheme
Here she is, at it again.
When a Democratic proposal is too partisan and radical even for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, that’s a clear sign it’s an awful idea.
That I find hard to believe.
Alas, this was not necessarily a case of Pelosi standing on principle: She specifically said she had no firm opinion on the merits of the proposal and that “it’s an idea that should be considered.” Instead, the speaker merely wants to punt the idea to the new commission on court-packing created by President Joe Biden, which is obviously intended to give a patina of legitimacy to what is in truth a wholly abominable scheme.
Using a biased commission to push thru an agenda to make it look ‘legitimate’ is wrong. HHmmm… where else have I heard the left wanting to legitimize something that was clearly wrong?
Pelosi is a calculating politician. She can read polls. She knows that by as much as a nearly 2-to-1 margin, the public opposes the very idea of court-packing. She knows that the same public that gives Congress only a 35% approval rating consistently gives the Supreme Court a clear majority of support and thus doesn’t trust Congress to monkey with the court’s makeup. She knows it would be politically suicidal for her slim Democratic House majority to push court-packing now, or at least until a bogus commission has worked with a compliant media to change long-standing public opinion on the subject.
Oh, so the timing is what is wrong. Not the concept itself.
The public is right, though. The idea of increasing the size of the high court is inherently part of an attempt to grab political control of the third branch of government by flooding it with new Democratic appointees. It would be a blatant power grab by a party that doesn’t believe there should be any curbs on its political agenda.
In other words, the Dems are going to do it as soon as they thing they can get away with it!
Why even the last supreme court justice said she was against court packing!
But that was in the past. This is in the now.
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