I’d like to be able to call this shocking or even mildly surprising, but it’s not as if the Democrats haven’t been telegraphing their punches on this issue for years. We were openly warned by the liberals that if they took back full control of Congress that they planned on packing the Supreme Court to dilute the power of the current conservative majority on the bench. But Senator Ron Wyden (D) of Oregon has pulled the trigger a bit earlier than even I had anticipated. Wyden introduced a bill on Thursday that would immediately pack the nation’s highest court with six more justices while imposing new restrictions on the rules governing the actions of SCOTUS. Called the “Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act,” the measure would force the justices to publicly disclose their tax returns and introduce a new “code of conduct” in the name of transparency or something related to that….
Democrats Are Already Trying to Pack the Court – HotAir
