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Sheldon Whitehouse’s Court-Packing Plan Is Unconstitutional

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July 25, 2026に開始

The latest arguments for Court-packing are nothing but a lawless mask for power that would destroy the rule of law

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CLAIM 投稿者: admin Jul 25, 2026
Sheldon Whitehouse's plan would destroy public trust in the judiciary by making the Court appear to be a partisan branch rather than an impartial institution.

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CLAIM 投稿者: admin Jul 25, 2026
Once Court-packing becomes normal practice, future majorities will keep adding justices until the Court loses any meaningful independence from Congress.

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CLAIM 投稿者: admin Jul 25, 2026
Proposals to change the Court's structure should be evaluated on their stated legal and institutional reasoning, not on whether they benefit or harm one party's electoral prospects.

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CLAIM 投稿者: admin Jul 25, 2026
Any reform of the Supreme Court—whether expanding it, limiting terms, or changing its jurisdiction—requires clarity about which constitutional powers already exist and which would be novel.

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CLAIM 投稿者: admin Jul 25, 2026
The current 6-3 conservative majority was itself enabled by Republican control of the Senate, so Democratic Court expansion would simply restore balance rather than create it.

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CLAIM 投稿者: admin Jul 25, 2026
The rule of law depends on judges being bound by the Constitution, not by the party that appointed them or the size of the Court they serve on.

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CLAIM 投稿者: admin Jul 25, 2026
Court expansion and Court reform are separate questions: one side may accept structural changes while rejecting partisan motivation for those changes.

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CLAIM 投稿者: admin Jul 25, 2026
If recent Court decisions reflect a sustained ideological shift rather than neutral law, democratic remedies should be available to the electorate.

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CLAIM 投稿者: admin Jul 25, 2026
Congress has the constitutional power to set the Court's size, and using that power to align the judiciary with electoral outcomes is a legitimate democratic correction.

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CLAIM 投稿者: admin Jul 25, 2026
The Supreme Court's ideological composition should not determine which party is allowed to exercise its lawful congressional authority over the Court's structure.

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