Kamala Harris calls for expanding Supreme Court, echoing FDR’s failed plan

Former Vice President Kamala Harris wants to expand the Supreme Court.

This is a really terrible idea.

FDR, at the height of his popularity, tried this after his first re-election and had his head handed to him.

The reason for the 1937 effort to have up to 15 justices was to overcome conservative opposition to the blizzard of New Deal programs.

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Sound familiar?

Even some Democrats at the time thought this would fatally undermine the independence of the judiciary.

Congress refused to approve the bill, even though Roosevelt had a large majority of Democrats.

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But the high court, perhaps under pressure, began supporting major New Deal programs launched in the wake of the Great Depression.

Harris said she wants to “invite ideas” like packing up SCOTUS and leaving herself with some swing groups. His goal: “To neutralize this red state scam.”

In an interview with the liberal group Emerge, the former vice president said both efforts to help Democrats should look to D.C. and Puerto Rico states, as well as the Electoral College.

Harris’s ideas date back to the days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tight grip on the nation’s politics. (NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Harris, who became the Democratic candidate after Joe Biden’s departure, lost all seven states to Donald Trump in 2024. He was extraordinarily cautious throughout his 107-day run, spending the first third of it refusing to talk to the media.

He is now acting more and more like the candidate, perhaps emboldened by Trump’s unpopularity over the Iran war and other issues.

House Speaker Mike Johnson accused Harris of taking a “dangerous gamble” and said: “You can’t blow up the system when you lose.”

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Fear is why most politicians avoid dealing with the courts, the Electoral College, or the Senate filibuster. They have dark visions of the same uncontrolled powers being used against them when they no longer control the White House or Congress. Republicans worry that they won’t be able to stop the all-out liberal agenda, especially national health insurance, when they are faced with it.

One of Harris’ many problems during the campaign was her inability to break away from Biden; He famously told “The View” that “nothing comes to mind” as to what he would have done differently.

Meanwhile, the former president keeps an extraordinarily low profile. Democrats have basically moved away from Biden, who is battling cancer.

Even while in the White House, Trump has attracted increased media attention as he battles four criminal investigations. This was partly because Biden distanced himself from the press to hide his severe mental decline.

In fact, the person who mentions Biden most frequently, both in speeches and online, is Trump, even though the topic has nothing to do with his predecessor.

Asked by Fox’s Bret Baier if he liked the fact that Xi Jinping had not yet approved arms sales to Taiwan, Trump said:

“I would say ‘like’ is perhaps too strong a word because he thinks I can do this by just signing my name, unlike Biden, who can’t sign his name.”

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As for Democrats, they still have a deep affection for former President Barack Obama, who has emerged as one of the party’s leading figures opposing Trump.

Obama said of Iran during one of Stephen Colbert’s recent appearances: “We did it without firing a missile. We got 97 percent of the enriched uranium out… and we didn’t have to kill a lot of people or close the Strait of Hormuz.”

When Colbert jokingly suggested he would run for president, Obama said the bar had already been set.

Trump, who always calls himself “Barack Hussein Obama” for obvious reasons, responded harshly.

President Donald Trump, unsurprisingly, responded harshly to former President Barack Obama’s harsh attacks on him. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

“There is now undeniable evidence that he was the spearhead of a seditious conspiracy to subvert the will of the American people and overthrow the US government in 2016,” Trump said, sharing a post from a former adviser.

Referring to Obama’s presidential library, the president added: “I hope they arrest you before the grand opening of your war shelter south of Chicago.”

In another post, Trump called Obama “the most DIVILICIOUS FORCE in American politics in decades.”

Several Democrats, led by California Governor Gavin Newsom, will challenge Harris for the 2028 nomination. This means that for the first time in 16 years, Trump’s name will not appear on the presidential ballot.

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Such polls are ridiculously premature considering past campaign seasons in which those with high name ID quickly disappeared once the action began.

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If Kamala Harris is smart, she’ll drop the idea of ​​packing the Supreme Court. He might say it was just a trial balloon, one that quickly burst when FDR tried such a plan 89 years ago.