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Dems’ idiotic rhetoric on courts reveals what they’re really after

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The story plays out the same way virtually every time.

Democrats, egged on by the increasingly powerful progressive base, push some obviously unconstitutional scheme that they contended is needed to preserve “democracy.”

The courts inevitably knock down the ploy.

Frustrated, Democrats ratchet up the anger, promising to “reform” the judiciary that stands in their way.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) recently argued on the House floor that the next Democratic White House “does not need a court reform commission like some college seminar. We need action.

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“We need term limits for justices. We need to expand this morally bankrupt Supreme Court from 9 to 13.”

Do we? Great, let’s do it today.

Republicans run both houses and the White House, after all; they could pack the court right now.

According to Khanna, there’s nothing procedurally or constitutionally improper about it. Indeed, it’s imperative.

Surely, the congressman isn’t proposing that one party should be empowered to operate under a different set of rules than the other?

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