The numbers are wrong. That is the sentiment of the 1/20/21 Action Fund, a left-wing organization pushing to add more seats to the bench of the Supreme Court.
They’d better just hope President Trump doesn’t get wind of their plan and try to implement it himself.
“To save our broken democracy, we’re launching an emergency initiative called Pack the Courts to add four seats to the U.S. Supreme Court,” reads the organization’s inaugural press release. “This fight won’t be quick or easy, but we can do it. We must do it — or our democracy may never recover.”
Aaron Belkin, a political science professor from San Francisco State University, and Sean McElwee, the social media influencer who authored the viral #AbolishIce hashtag, are behind the effort.
The duo accuses a shadowy cabal of “corporations and right-wing billionaires” of teaming up “to hijack American politics to allow a minority of voters to control all three branches of government.”
“Using gerrymandering, voter suppression, and massive political spending empowered by Citizens United, this far-right cabal has warped our democracy to allow Republicans to take control of the three branches of government without ever earning a majority of votes,” the statement reads.
Their timing, however, might be off. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., learned the hard way after the 2016 election that he probably shouldn’t have promised, days before the election, to go nuclear to confirm President Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court justices. You need to gain power before you can abuse it.
