On October 1, according to The Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Kugle, Democratic candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is running in New York’s 14th Congressional District, said that Democrats should "pack the Supreme Court" in the wake of the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh:
With the nomination and subsequent appointment of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, some progressives are calling for the next Democratic president to pack the court. However, as it was noted by the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1937, and repeated by legal scholars today, including Ilya Somin, the notion of court packing could prove to be a "menace to the role of judicial review as a check on the power of political majorities."
Ocasio-Cortez Suggests Democrats Should ‘Pack The Supreme Court’
AUDIENCE MEMBER: If in a few months from now, the Supreme Court looks like I’m pretty scared it’s going to – a court that would overturn Roe and make the president above the rule of law – what is to be done?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: I think that we take back the House, we take back the Senate, we take back the presidency, and we pack the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Next!
OCASIO-CORTEZ: I think that we take back the House, we take back the Senate, we take back the presidency, and we pack the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Next!
With the nomination and subsequent appointment of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, some progressives are calling for the next Democratic president to pack the court. However, as it was noted by the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1937, and repeated by legal scholars today, including Ilya Somin, the notion of court packing could prove to be a "menace to the role of judicial review as a check on the power of political majorities."
Ocasio-Cortez Suggests Democrats Should ‘Pack The Supreme Court’