Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, is concerned that if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the Democrats will push to pack the court.
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case looking at a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks, is now before the Supreme Court. A decision in favor of the Mississippi law would overturn the nearly 50-year precedent that has guaranteed a right to abortion.
“If we get the right decision on the pro-life case out of Mississippi, if we get a pro-life decision there, I think the Democrats are going to move right then and there to try to pack the court,” Jordan told Fox News @ Night’s Shannon Bream.
Rep. Mondaire Jones, a New York Democrat, has called for Congress to pack the Supreme Court with justices appointed by Democrats as a means to uphold abortion rights.
I’m proud to be one of them.
And I’m proud to be part of the majority of Americans who support expanding the Supreme Court to protect that sacred right. https://t.co/n8oBkzF7jQ
— Mondaire Jones (@MondaireJones) February 17, 2022
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When asked by Bream about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s avoidance of answering questions related to court-packing, Jordan said she should have, given that President Joe Biden just held a commission to look at court-packing.
“This is a pressing question,” Jordan said. “We deserve, as the American people, particularly when you are talking about a lifetime appointment, we deserve to know where she stands on that fundamental question.”
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In November, GOP senators held a press conference discussing the Mississippi case going before the Supreme Court. Steve Daines from Montana stated that the U.S. is one of only seven countries that allow late-term abortions.
Daines: “In fact, the US is an outlier as relates to where our laws are today. In fact just seven countries in the world allow late term abortions. One of those is the United States. A couple of others are North Korea in China.” pic.twitter.com/QnjFQfBcKc
— Tyler Olson (@TylerOlson1791) November 30, 2021
“The U.S. is an outlier as relates to where our laws are today,” Daines said, noting that a Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is not a complete ban on abortion nationwide. “Rather, it’ll return the power is back to the states.”
