Legal Expert Explains Real Reason These Democrats Want to Expand Supreme Court

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🗓️ 23 April 2021

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Summary

Four Democratic members of Congress have introduced legislation to expand the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13.

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., on April 15 introduced the bill with Reps. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., and Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y. Markey supports the high court's expansion because, he said, the “United States Supreme Court is broken.”

GianCarlo Canaparo, a legal fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation and co-host of the podcast SCOTUS 101, said that Markey and the other Democrats backing the bill are seeking to expand the court in order to advance a far-left agenda. Opponents of the move have dubbed it "court packing."

Canaparo joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain the likelihood of the Supreme Court being expanded and whether or not the Constitution even allows for adding justices to the bench. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, April 23rd.
0:09.9	I'm Virginia Allen and I'm Doug Blair.
0:13.2	Democrats have introduced a new bill to expand the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13.
0:19.3	John Carlo Conoparo, a Heritage Foundation legal fellow, joins the show to explain why
0:24.8	Democrats are seeking to expand the High Court and whether or not the Constitution
0:29.6	allows for the Court to be expanded.
0:32.1	And don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review
0:35.8	or a five-star rating on Apple podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:40.4	Now on to our top news.
0:50.0	President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the U.S. has a new emissions reduction
0:54.9	goal.
0:55.7	The President wants to see greenhouse gas pollution drop by 50 to 52% by the year 2030.
1:03.2	This 50 to 52% decrease is compared to emissions levels in 2005.
1:08.5	In 2019, U.S. emissions were down by 19% when compared with 2005.
1:14.7	Biden made the announcement at the Virtual Leaders Summit on Climate.
1:19.2	According to a White House fact sheet, the action is part of Biden's commitment to
1:23.8	focus on building back better in a way that will create millions of good paying union
1:29.4	jobs and share economic competitiveness, advance environmental justice, and improve the
1:35.6	health and security of communities across America.
1:39.3	The plan promises to create millions of American jobs.
1:42.8	Some of these new or expanded job opportunities will include lying workers who will lay thousands
1:48.5	of miles of transmission lines for a clean, modern, resilient grid, autoworkers building
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