‘Court Integrity’: Cruz re -introduces an amendment to fight the effort to spread the court
First on the fox: Senator Ted CruzR-TX, re-introduces a constitutional amendment to reduce the number of Supreme Court judges at nine, in the middle of calling to expand the court.
Cruz, which was now joined by 15 chopons, including Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy (La), Chuck Grassley (IA), Mike Crapo (ID), Thom Tillis (NC) and John Cornyn (TX), previously presented a change in 2021 and 2023.
In a Fox News Digital statement, Cruz said Democrats are looking for “Use a court to improve the goals of policies that cannot be achieved by optional.”
“Such a move would be a direct attack on the design of our Constitution, which designed to ensure that the Supreme Court remains a non -partisan guardian of the rule of law,” Cruz said. “This amendment is badly needed to check their efforts to undermine the integrity of the court.”
Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, re-introduced a constitutional amendment to limit the number of Supreme Court judges at nine, in the middle of the call to expand the court. (Reuters)
Likewise, Grassley said the amendment would ensure the independence of the court from political pressures.
“The radical scheme of the Democrats Pack of Democrats would delete the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and destroy the historical precedent,” Grassley said in a statement. “The court is a common branch of power, and our maintenance amendment will ensure that it remains independent of political pressure.”
The court for nine justice Currently, it has conservative supermayality. After various significant decisions in recent years, including the overturning of ROE against Wade 2022, Democrats re -established calls to insert court reforms, including the expansion and packaging of the court as well as imposing a term limit.
In October, The then President of Kamal Harris He entertained the concept of court reform imposing during the CNN City Hall. Harris was asked if she would support the expansion of the number of judges from the current nine to 12.
“There is no doubt that the US people are increasingly losing confidence in the Supreme Court and, to a great extent, because of the behavior of certain members of that court and because of certain judgments, including the Dobbs Decision Defining PRIVENDA he had in force for 50 years, protecting A woman’s right to make decisions about his own body, “Harris said during the event.
In October, then President Kamal Harris entertained the term imposing court reforms during the CNN City Hall. (Screen/CNN recording)
“So, I believe there should be a kind of court reform and we can study what it really looks like.”
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Tail. Ilhan OmarMinnesota Democrat also called for a court reform the same month, saying in social media posts: “We need to radically reform a broken Supreme Court.”
Democrats consistently proposed legislation for the expansion of the Supreme Court on a 13 direction bench.
The reintroduction of senator Ted Cruza comes in the light of the call on the left to expand the Supreme Court, as well as imposed the limitations of the term rights. (Saul Loeb // Pool over Reuters)
In May 2023, Democratic Democrat, Hank Johnson, joined the Democratic Senz. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Tina Smith of Minnesota, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, as well as Democratic representatives of Jerry Arap from New York, Cori Bush of Mississippi and Adam Schiff California, in re -introduction of the 2023 judiciary law.
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“We want to prevent this type of rot and decay from ever more than the prestige of the Supreme Court,” Johnson said Fox News Digital in October.
