Elections have become not merely choices of policy change but referenda on the full-scale, top-to-bottom destruction of America’s form of government and way of life.

Democratic Party candidates in the 2024 election have proposed policies that would radically, and irrevocably, alter America’s constitutional order. Liberal candidates have endorsed plans that would fundamentally transform all three branches of government, assure permanent left-wing power, and effect the domination of American politics by a polarized ideological minority.

No institution has experienced such a concerted and sustained attack on its “legitimacy” than the U.S. Supreme Court.

After decades of activists dominating the judicial branch, former President Donald Trump appointed three justices that tilted the court in an originalist direction, sparking instant cries to change the number of justices for the first time since 1869. This would allow the Biden-Harris administration to “expand the court” and pack it with liberal judicial activists.

Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, the Democratic Party debate has centered not on whether candidates should stack the Supreme Court but how openly it should take place. In the 2020 Democratic primaries, no fewer than 11 Democratic presidential hopefuls supported court-packing or were “open” to it.

Although he opposed the notion during the primaries, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14023 shortly after taking office, establishing a panel to study the issue.

“The risks of Court expansion are considerable, including that it could undermine the very goal of some of its proponents of restoring the Court’s legitimacy,” concluded the commission’s 198 pages of discussion materials, not least because court-packing could be “perceived by many as a partisan maneuver.”

Since the number of Supreme Court justices is not enumerated in the Constitution, dissatisfied members of Congress have introduced court-packing legislation of their own.

Last July, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., introduced the Judiciary Act to add four new justices to the Supreme Court, inflating the court to 13 members. The “Planned Parenthood Federation of America is proud to support the Judiciary Act,” said the bill’s official press release.

In September, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., introduced the Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act (S. 5229), which would expand the Supreme Court to 15 members, force the Senate to schedule a vote on Supreme Court nominations within six months, and require a two-thirds supermajority before the Supreme Court could overturn any act of Congress.

During a speech in Austin this July, Biden proposed three “reforms” to the Supreme Court. The most consequential would establish an 18-year term limit for Supreme Court justices, which would mandatorily retire three of the court’s center-right bloc: Justice Clarence Thomas (who has served 33 years); Chief Justice John Roberts (19 years); and Justice Samuel Alito (18 years), who is the author of the Dobbs decision.

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