Harris Floats Dangerous Court-Packing Scheme as Democrats Abandon Biden

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• Former Vice President Kamala Harris is pushing to expand the Supreme Court, echoing FDR’s failed 1937 attempt to pack the court with up to 15 justices
• Harris called for “inviting ideas” to “neutralize red state cheating,” including court-packing, eliminating the Electoral College, and granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico
• House Speaker Mike Johnson condemned the proposal as a “dangerous gambit,” warning against blowing up the system after losing elections

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is pushing a radical plan to expand the Supreme Court — a scheme that failed spectacularly when FDR attempted it at the height of his popularity. This is a seriously awful idea.

In 1937, fresh off his first reelection victory, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 justices. His goal was to overcome conservative opposition to his avalanche of New Deal programs. Sound familiar?

Even some Democrats at the time recognized this would fatally undermine the independence of the judiciary. Congress refused to approve the bill, despite Roosevelt enjoying a substantial Democratic majority.

Harris indicated she wanted to “invite ideas,” such as packing the Supreme Court, carefully leaving herself wiggle room.

“To neutralize this red state cheating,” Harris stated, revealing the partisan motivation behind her proposal.

During a call with the liberal group Emerge, the former vice president also floated eliminating the Electoral College and granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico — both efforts clearly designed to provide permanent Democratic electoral advantages.

Harris, who became the Democratic nominee after Joe Biden dropped out, lost all seven swing states to Donald Trump in 2024. She ran an extraordinarily cautious 107-day campaign, spending the first third refusing to talk to the media.

Now she’s increasingly acting like a candidate again, perhaps emboldened by Trump’s current challenges with the Iran war and other issues.

House Speaker Mike Johnson accused Harris of pursuing a “dangerous gambit.”

“You don’t just blow up the system when you lose,” Johnson declared.

The reason most politicians avoid tampering with the court, the Electoral College, or the Senate filibuster is fear. They have dark visions of the same unchecked powers being used against them when they no longer control the White House or Congress. Republicans worry they would be unable to stop an all-out liberal agenda when the tables turn.

One of Harris’ many problems during the campaign was her inability to separate from Biden. She famously told “The View” that “not a thing comes to mind” when asked what she would have done differently.

The former president, meanwhile, has been keeping an extraordinarily low profile. The Democrats have essentially moved on from Biden, who is battling cancer.

Even during his time in the White House, Trump drew more media attention as he battled four criminal investigations. This was partly because Biden walled himself off from the press to hide his severe mental decline.

In fact, the person who mentions Biden most frequently, both in speeches and online, is Trump — even when the topic has nothing to do with his predecessor.

As for the Democrats, they still harbor deep affection for former President Barack Obama, who has emerged as the party’s most prominent Trump-basher.

“We pulled it off,” Obama said of Iran on one of Stephen Colbert’s final shows, “without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out… and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

When Colbert jokingly suggested running for president himself, Obama said the bar had already been lowered.

Trump has hit back hard against Obama’s criticism. The president shared a former adviser’s post claiming there’s “incontrovertible evidence that he was the spearhead of a seditious conspiracy to subvert the will of the American people and overthrow the United States government back in 2016.”

“I hope they arrest you before your grand opening of your war bunker in southside Chicago,” Trump added, referring to Obama’s presidential library.

In another post, Trump called Obama “the most DEMONIC FORCE in American politics in decades.”

A whole lot of Democrats, led by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, will be battling Harris for the 2028 nomination. This will be the first time in 16 years that Trump’s name won’t be on the presidential ballot.

Such polls are ridiculously early, given past campaign seasons when those with high name recognition quickly faded once the action got under way.

If Kamala Harris is smart, she’ll drop this idea of packing the Supreme Court. She can say it was just a trial balloon, one that quickly popped when FDR tried such a scheme 89 years ago.

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