House Democrats are seeking to add additional justices to the Supreme Court. The extra seats, along with potential Tuesday votes, could defend against any future cases at the high court regarding topics like same-sex marriage and contraception.
According to The Hill, four House Democrats have increased their push for the 2021 Judiciary Act, which seeks to add four additional justices to the bench.The push for more seats also follows the court’s June overturning of Roe v Wade, which turned abortion regulation back to state legislatures.
The court currently holds a 6-3 conservative-leaning majority. The makeup of the court changed under the Trump administration.
The law, introduced last year, has yet to pass Congress. Lawmakers at a Monday press conference, hosted by Take Back the Court Action Fund, pushed for its passage, and blamed both Trump and the conservative legal movement for the current state of the court, according to The Hill.
In a blitz of rulings issued by the court before its summer break, a majority of conservative justices deemed a New York gun control law unconstitutional, ruled in favor of a football coach that prayed at games, and most notably, overturned Roe v Wade in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health.
Speaking about Justice Samuel Alito, Hank Johnson, the lead sponsor of the 2021 Judiciary Act, said, “You can see the gleam in his eye as he thinks about what he wants to do to decimate the rights of people and put us back in the Dark Ages.”Lawmakers noted that the justices’ lifelong terms makes the legislation all the more urgent.
GOPUSA Editor’s Note: In addition to the ‘gleam’ that Hank Johnson thinks he sees in Justice Alito’s eye, Johnson once worried, while questioning an admiral, that Guam might become so overpopulated it would tip over.
The Trump-nominated Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, who are all in their 50s, are “gonna be there for a while,” Johnson said.
Lawmakers are also looking to hold a vote this week to protect social issues which may appear in the courts soon, like same-sex marriage, contraceptives, and access to abortion nationwide.”
House passes same-sex marriage bill
As this Court may take aim at other fundamental rights, we cannot sit idly by,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, House Judiciary Committee chairman, according to Fox News.
The votes are also seen as a response to Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in the case of Dobbs, which questioned the legality of same-sex marriage.
In the majority decision, Justice Samuel Alito clarified that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion,” but the Dobbs decision rather “concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right.” The House is scheduled to vote on the Respect for Marriage Act, which amended the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996. That bill defined marriage as the relationship between a man and a woman, and was signed by former President Bill Clinton.
This definition was changed in 2015 with the ruling in the case of Obergefell v Hodges, but has yet to be codified into law.
According to Fox News, a vote on contraceptives is scheduled later this week.
This article was originally published at The Post Millennial.
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these demons will do, and say anything to advance the commie agenda.
The treachery of the treasonous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
These disgraceful people in the currant socialist Democrat Party need to be removed by any means available from ANY power or position in government! Vote ALL of these Democrats OUT of office EVERYWHERE, from the president to the school board!!
This treasonous, dishonest, destructive, immoral, demonic, socialist Democrat Party revolves around and its philosophy is based on Total Control, Hate, Lies, Cons, Deceptions, Immorality and the lack of Integrity, Ethics or Honor.
These Democrats are willing to destroy themselves and everyone around them before they will agree to compromise on their failed policies and their destructive self-fabricated lies, cons, deceptions and beliefs.
THEY HAVE been advocating to PACK The scotus for years…
Demonrats put on the best CLOWN SHOW our tax dollars buy !
Creeping socialism now turned into desperate Creepy Socialism to get their Democrat dirty work done before the November clock runs out. Let’s hope they all end up as happy as Hillary on the evening of the 2016 election.
AT LEAST clowns have a USE.. THESE traitors have none, that i can see.
I don’t know how, but these left wing liberals must be stopped before this republic is totally destroyed and their new world order replaces it. Somehow they must be blocked before this upcoming election cycle where we hope to gain control back of both the house and the senate. The longer the democrats stay in control the closer and closer we get to that uprising that will start the second American revolution/civil war. We will destroy ourselves by our domestic enemies, the democrats!
The sore losers are at it again, they can’t win fair an square so they will rig the game and the umpires. The rule book is The Constitution and the Supreme Court Justices are the umpires and referees and for a time the leftist liberals had the ears of like thinking members of the Court who were able to torture opinions out of words and phrases haveing nothing to do with the matter before it. The rules haven’t changed, they are merely being reapplied in the manner they were intended to be. There was nno mention of abortion in The Constitution, there is no mention of marriage (any kind) in The Constitution either yet somewhere they became rights. Now certain people are upset that the letter of the law set forth in The Constitution is being applied. Them’s the breaks!
That appears to be the way they’ve been for decades.. CAN’T WIN, Change the rules, JUST TO SUIT them…
Is the Supreme Court supposed to make decisions based upon the Constitution or the Democrat agenda? Hey, Dems—I’, asking ya’.