Democrats court packing scheme will backfire

 Alan Dershowitz:

Some Democrats in Congress are ignoring the creation by President Biden of an expert panel to consider the pros and cons of packing the Supreme Court, and are introducing legislation to add four justices. Such a bill, if enacted by Congress and signed into law, would destroy the credibility of the high court as a neutral arbiter of justice and as a check and balance against the two political branches of our government. It would turn the Supreme Court into a political football to be tossed about by whichever party temporarily controls Congress and the White House.

Today, Democrats want to add four justices of their own. But tomorrow, Republicans might want to add six justices of their own. The dangerous precedent set by Democrats has no limiting principle. If the process of adding justices persists, the bench needs to be expanded to fit dozens of robed political nominees who will see their role as serving the party that appointed them rather than supporting the rule of law.

It is unlikely that this power grab will succeed in the near future, as not all Democrats support this effort, nor is it likely that Biden would sign a bill that undercuts his creation of a study commission. Indeed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will wait until the panel makes its recommendations before letting the issue come to a vote. She has called the court packing proposal debatable and has said that changing circumstances may justify it. Despite the unlikelihood of immediate passage, the mere introduction of such legislation threatens neutrality of the judiciary.
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Not only would adding more justices to the Supreme Court endanger its critical institutional integrity, it might also threaten our most fundamental liberties, namely freedom of speech and due process of law. If Biden were to get four new appointments immediately, and likely a fifth if and when Justice Stephen Breyer retires, then there would be enormous pressure from the radical wing of the party to nominate progressives, rather than liberals and civil libertarians. The same extremists who want to pack the high court now would demand that Biden nominate their kind of radical jurists with little tolerance for dissent and due process.

These progressives demand that their ideology be enacted now. If you know the truth, why do you need dissenting views? Why do you need due process? These are merely devices designed by our white patriarchal society to silence the demands of the disenfranchised, or so goes their argument. Were the Supreme Court to be filled by such repressives, it could set back liberty in this country for generations.
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The radical Democrats are on a totalitarian bender.  They want to use their skinny majority to permanently seize power.  If saner voices are able to resist this totalitarianism things will not go smoothly for the radicals.  There will be resistance and it may not be peaceful.