Dem Rep. Mondaire Jones: Packing the Supreme Court ‘Is About Saving Our Democracy’

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JONES: “To act, to do our part, our bill is simple. It adds four justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. When those seats are filled, we will finally have a court committed to government by the people. The Constitution, for its part, is clear. When the Supreme Court will not respect the will of the people, Congress has the power and the duty to expand the Supreme Court, and in fact as you have heard today, Congress has done it seven times before. Expanding the court is not about political parties. Justices John Paul Stevens and David Souter were Republicans when they were a appointed by Republican presidents of the United States. They were committed to the rule of law and to the right of everyone in this country to vote. Not so today. Court expansion then is about saving our democracy. Expanding the court would restore our right to choose the world that we wish to live in. We can still have a democracy if we fight for it. And that is precisely what we are doing today through the introduction of this bill.”