DAILYCALLER (Harold Hutchison) - Supreme Court Justices Get Swamped By Flood Of Briefs As Semi-Auto Showdown Looms
‘The challenged laws are outliers’
‘The challenged laws are outliers’
By John L. Smith FDR is to Obama as John Roberts is to Felix Frankfurter.
His remarks came during the White House press briefing, in response to a question on the failure of a constitutional amendment vote to fix the number of justices on the top court at nine.
JD Vance stated the Trump administration's commitment to preserving the tradition of nine Supreme Court justices and pushed back against Democratic proposals to alter the Court's structure, expand statehood for political advantage, and change fundamental constitutional rules.
House Democrats sank a Republican-backed constitutional amendment that would have permanently capped the Supreme Court at nine seats, a vote GOP leaders staged to force every lawmaker on the record weeks before the midterm elections. The measure failed 212-206 on Wednesday, far short of the two-thirds supermajority the House requires to advance a constitutional amendment. […] The post House Democrats vote down amendment to cap Supreme Court at nine justices appeared first on American Almanac .
House Democrats sank a Republican-backed constitutional amendment that would have permanently capped the Supreme Court at nine seats, a vote GOP leaders staged to force every lawmaker on the record weeks before the midterm elections. The measure failed 212-206 on Wednesday, far short of the two-thirds supermajority the House requires to advance a constitutional amendment. Every Democrat who voted opposed it. Speaker Mike Johnson had fast-tracked the resolution under a procedure known as "suspension of the rules," which limits debate but raises the passage threshold from a simple majority to two-thirds, a bar Republicans knew they could not clear without significant Democratic support. The result was never really in doubt. Republicans…Open
In recent years, Democrats have fumed over how Republicans have handled Supreme Court nominations.
The vote, which failed in a 212-206 split, comes as calls to pack the court have grown in recent years, largely due to the success of Republicans in confirming conservative justices to the bench, who have gone on to rule in landmark cases.
Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland joins The Weeknight to respond to House Speaker Mike Johnson's plot to cap the number of Supreme Court justices.
By Mike McDaniel Court-packing is a necessary component of the coming revolution.
Here is a breakdown of the biggest legal battles set to be argued before the Supreme Court during its 2026-2027 term.