Evening Edition: Court Packing Setback For Progressives

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

President Biden’s commission that researched the prospect of expanding the U.S. Supreme Court has come back divided on the issue dealing a blow to progressive dreams of growing the court. Conservatives currently have a 6-3 advantage but current polls show the majority of Americans don't like the idea of adding justices. FOX's John Saucier speaks to FOX News Congressional Correspondent Aishah Hasnie about the commission's report and reaction from Capitol Hill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.7	I'm Greg Gutfeld.
0:15.8	I'm Martha McCallum.
0:16.7	I'm Brett Bear and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:19.4	Friday, October 15th, 2021. I'm John Saucier. In Washington, D.C. everything is a fight.
0:31.0	Today we're focusing on the fight over the makeup of the Supreme Court.
0:34.7	As it stands, there are nine Supreme Court justices on the bench, six of them nominated
0:39.3	by Republican presidents, and three, nominated by Democratic presidents.
0:43.0	Pretty strong majority there for what's supposed to be a non-political part of our government.
0:48.0	But are political forces ready to intervene?
0:51.0	Each president, each party gets to decide when the time comes and they did kind of feel like at the end of
0:59.1	the day this would be risky, you know, to keep adding.
1:03.2	This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition.
1:06.7	One of President Joe Biden's first orders of business from when he got into office was forming a commission looking at potential changes to the Supreme Court.
1:19.0	This supposedly non-partisan panel will supply the President a report on whether or not it might be a good idea
1:24.6	to add justices to the Supreme Court or what some critics call packing the court.
1:29.7	This action would require legislation by Congress which is never a safe bet but this is a major
1:33.7	issue and why a 203 page draft report released by this committee caught our attention.
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