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Bernie Sanders’s radical plan to fix the Supreme Court (Vox) “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came out against court-packing as a way to end Republican dominance of the Supreme Court on Saturday. But he then suggested an alternative that is no less radical — neutralizing the Court’s Republican majority by demoting some of its members.
Some of Sanders’s rivals have embraced or, at least, expressed openness toward court-packing, adding additional seats to the Supreme Court to dilute its Republican members’ votes. Sanders, at a forum focused on how Democratic presidential candidates would approach an increasingly conservative judiciary, said he emphatically rejects such an idea.
Court-packing, Sanders told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle during an event titled “Our Rights, Our Courts,” would produce a kind of death spiral for the Supreme Court.”
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