Court Packing
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Today we discuss the possibility of packing the Supreme Court with Democratic justices. What does it take to change the rules and how many can there be?
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| 0:00.0 | Are the Democrats about to pack the Supreme Court? |
| 0:05.0 | Add four or five justices to give them a majority. |
| 0:08.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:09.0 | But they just had a commission appointed, |
| 0:12.0 | or about to be appointed by President Biden |
| 0:14.8 | which will have on its agenda the possibility of court packing bad idea |
| 0:21.6 | you'll hear why on the church. |
| 0:23.0 | So the Democrats are not only looking backward at President Trump, |
| 0:32.0 | former President Trump, and trying to impeach and remove him. |
| 0:36.3 | They're also looking forward, maybe trying to pack the United States Supreme Court. |
| 0:43.2 | Well, we're not sure. |
| 0:44.8 | We do know that President Biden has done what he said he would do |
| 0:49.0 | during the campaign. |
| 0:50.2 | He has begun to put together a blue ribbon commission of very prominent people, lawyers, |
| 0:57.7 | professors, who knows who else, in order to look hard at the Supreme Court of the United States and at the federal |
| 1:06.1 | judiciary. The co-chairman of the Commission, according to a report in |
| 1:10.3 | Politico, is a professor who strongly favors court packing and trying to |
| 1:17.3 | eliminate the conservative majority on the Supreme Court and have enough new justices that can be appointed to swing the |
| 1:25.3 | balance in favor of liberals on the Supreme Court. |
| 1:30.2 | Another one of the professors, somebody I know quite well, Jack Goldsmith, I think is much more moderate and open-minded about these issues. |
| 1:40.0 | He was a Biden supporter even though he was a Republican, but he also supported Justice Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:50.0 | And I've known Jack for a long time and he's very balanced and open-minded but we have to see |
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