Democrats' court-packing bill will backfire

Eager to consolidate their power, a group of Democrats is preparing to introduce a bill that would add four seats to the Supreme Court and create a liberal majority on the bench.

At least the Democratic lawmakers are being honest about their intentions. The goal of this bill isn’t to “balance the judiciary” or “reform” it, as some leftists have argued; it’s to hand another branch of government to the Democrats. Brian Fallon, a former Senate Democratic aide and a co-founder of Demand Justice, the left-wing group that helped shape the bill, summed up the legislation nicely: “This bill marks a new era where Democrats finally stop conceding the Supreme Court to Republicans.”