Democrats have renewed calls to add four more seats to the Supreme Court as a way of diluting its conservative majority.
On Thursday, Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Markey and Georgia Representative Hank Johnson, a member of the Judiciary Subcommittee, held a news conference to call for an expansion of the court and highlight the Judiciary Act, which would create a 13-justice Supreme Court.
Markey, the lead author of the legislation, told reporters in Washington, D.C., that the bill is intended to overcome the court’s swing to “extremist” far-right politics.
“The court’s recent decisions on presidential immunity, Chevron deference and overturning Roe v. Wade laid bare that a far-right, extremist majority has been fully captured and plunged the court into a crisis of confidence and legitimacy,” he said.
The Supreme Court’s ruling on Chevron deference makes it harder for federal agencies to act on environmental policy and other issues.
“Because we can no longer trust the current Supreme Court to uphold the words engraved on the outside of the Supreme Court—’Equal Justice Under the Law’—we must fight to return balance and legitimacy to this institution and expand the court,” Markey continued.
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