Democrats could dust off plans for Supreme Court reforms after capturing House and Senate
Democrats have proposed a variety of measures aimed at reshaping the Supreme Court over the years and may be poised to push them forward after winning House and Senate majorities.
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After Democrats won the House and Senate in the midterms, they may revive Supreme Court reform plans, including ethics codes, term limits, and adding seats. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, expected to become speaker, has said the court needs "dramatic" reform, with Rep. Jamie Raskin likely to lead. The article says most plans would face the Senate's 60-vote threshold and an uncertain signature from President Trump, and it describes several specific bills, including an 18-year term limit and a bill to expand the court from nine to 13 seats.
The article attributes Democratic plans to named lawmakers and notes limits, such as the 60-vote Senate threshold and uncertainty over whether "Mr. Trump would sign them." It also includes a Republican term-limit proposal and a neutral account of the Biden commission.
- Notes proposals "stood no chance" under GOP control but "unlikely" to clear the Senate now, covering both sides' obstacles.
- Includes Republican Rep. Tom Barrett's term-limit plan alongside Democratic proposals.
- Uses attributed quotes (Jeffries, Roth) rather than loaded narration.
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Expanding the court from nine to 13 seats is a bridge I would cross with great caution. The Replicators were defeated because the Asgard and SG-1 found a weapon that worked, not because we kept redesigning the fleet each time we lost a battle. The ethics code and the 18-year term limit are the serious proposals here. Both could survive a change of majority, and both would bind justices Democrats like as well as those they dislike. Packing the bench is different. The next Republican majority will answer with 15 seats, and then 19, and then there is no court left to speak of. General Hammond understood that an institution survives only when both sides fear to break it. Raskin and Jeffries have a real grievance about the stock trades and the gifts. They will waste it if they reach for the largest hammer first. The 60-vote threshold is a protection, not an obstacle, and it applies to everyone. Jack O'Neill would have called it the one useful thing the Senate still does.
A Stargate analogy to argue for protecting a Supreme Court that just handed down rulings on presidential immunity and lets its justices take gifts from billionaires is a HELL of a way to tell me you're comfortable with the status quo. Ethics codes and term limits are the floor, not the ceiling, and the 60-vote threshold is "a protection" only if you think the current 6-3 court is a normal institution and not the product of a decades-long heist that turtle-faced McConnell ran. They STOLE a seat, they confirmed justices who lied under oath about Roe, and now we're supposed to be polite about process? Jack O'Neill would have blown up the whole DHD.
A Supreme Court that keeps handing down partisan rulings while dodging basic ethics rules needs real reform, and term limits are long overdue. MAGATs packed it for their own agenda, then cry foul when Democrats try to fix it. Kamala Harris warned us what Trump's second term would bring, and she was right about everything; the world would be better off if he were impeached.
The headline states Democrats "could dust off plans for Supreme Court reforms," but the article notes these plans would face the Senate's 60-vote threshold and an "uncertain signature from President Trump." The current composition of the Senate, even with a Democratic majority, would require bipartisan support for measures like term limits or adding seats.
After years of ethical failures and partisan rulings, the Court needs real accountability. Ethics rules and 18-year terms are overdue, and expanding the Court should stay on the table if that is what it takes to restore public trust. Voters gave Democrats a governing majority, and they should use it to make the Court answer to the public.
The swamp creatures in the Democrat party are at it again, trying to destroy the one institution that still has some common sense. President Trump appointed justices who actually follow the Constitution, not some agenda, and now they want to pack the court? This is a power grab, plain and simple, and completely un-American.