Ep. 1366 The Democrats and Their Court-Packing Plan
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On a previous episode I predicted that the Democrats would not let the transformation of the Supreme Court stand, and would instead try to revive the idea of packing the Court. I was right. In this episode I discuss the history behind the number of justices on the Court, the FDR Court-packing episode, and current proposals from Democratic officials.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1366. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
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| 0:35.6 | court packing today. This is a topic that's in the news, |
| 0:40.3 | because as I predicted on this podcast, the Democrats are not simply going to say, well, I guess we've lost the Supreme Court. |
| 0:49.4 | Of course, under Trump, we've had Gorsuch and then Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh not being a lot of people's first |
| 0:56.1 | choice for a number of reasons, but nevertheless, there's still a move to the right, at least |
| 1:03.1 | toward some kind of originalism in the court's jurisprudence under Trump. And then, of course, |
| 1:10.5 | there is the possibility that Trump may |
| 1:13.9 | appoint yet another Supreme Court justice. So it seemed to me that given how significant a role |
| 1:21.0 | the court can play in American life, that it was highly unlikely that the left, and I realize the left and the Democrats are not the same thing, or they're not coterminous, let's say, but it's as close as we can get in American politics. |
| 1:36.7 | And there was no way that the left, whose goal is just ongoing revolution, was going to let this institution, which represents a major block to |
| 1:47.7 | some of their plans, no doubt, just fall into the hands of people who are not in sympathy |
| 1:54.7 | with them. There was just no way they were going to sit back and let that happen. |
| 1:58.8 | And I said, there is going to start being talk of |
| 2:02.3 | packing the court again. And by packing the court, I remember I have about 17% of my audience. It's not |
| 2:07.9 | from the United States. So you may not know the term. But it just refers to expanding the Supreme |
| 2:13.9 | Court to accommodate more justices. So right now, the court consists of nine justices, |
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