'Integrity of the Court': Cruz reintroduces amendment to combat court expansion efforts

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, is reintroducing a law amendment to headdress the fig of Supreme Court Justices astatine nine, amid calls to grow the court. 

Cruz, present joined by 15 cosponsors including Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy (LA), Chuck Grassley (IA), Mike Crapo (ID), Thom Tillis (NC) and John Cornyn (TX), antecedently introduced the amendment successful 2021 and successful 2023. 

In a connection to Fox News Digital, Cruz said Democrats are seeking to "use the Court to beforehand argumentation goals they can’t execute electorally."

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"Such a determination would beryllium a nonstop battle connected the plan of our Constitution, which is designed to guarantee the Supreme Court remains a non-partisan guardian of the regularisation of law," Cruz said. "This amendment is simply a badly-needed cheque connected their efforts to undermine the integrity of the Court." 

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, is reintroducing a law amendment to headdress the fig of Supreme Court Justices astatine nine, amid calls to grow the court. (Reuters)

Likewise, Grassley said the amendment would guarantee the Court's independency from governmental pressures. 

"Democrats’ extremist tribunal packing strategy would erase the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and destruct historical precedent," Grassley said successful a statement. "The Court is simply a co-equal subdivision of government, and our Keep Nine Amendment will guarantee that it remains autarkic from governmental pressure."

The nine-justice court presently has a blimpish supermajority. Following assorted landmark decisions successful caller years, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade successful 2022, Democrats person re-upped calls to enforce tribunal reforms, including expanding and packing the tribunal arsenic good arsenic imposing word limits. 

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In October, then-Vice President Kamala Harris entertained the conception of imposing tribunal reforms during a CNN municipality hall. Harris was asked if she would enactment expanding the fig of justices from the existent 9 to 12. 

"There is nary question that the American radical progressively are losing assurance successful the Supreme Court and, successful ample part, due to the fact that of the behaviour of definite members of that tribunal and due to the fact that of definite rulings, including the Dobbs determination and taking distant a precedent that had been successful spot for 50 years, protecting a woman's close to marque decisions astir her ain body," Harris said during the event.

In October, then-Vice President Kamala Harris entertained the conception of imposing tribunal reforms during a CNN municipality hall. (Screenshot/CNN)

"So, I bash judge that determination should beryllium immoderate benignant of betterment of the court, and we tin survey what that really looks like." 

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, besides called for reforming the Court that aforesaid month, saying successful societal media posts, "We request to radically betterment the breached Supreme Court."

Democrats person consistently projected authorities to grow the Supreme Court to a 13-justice bench. 

Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment reintroduction comes successful airy of calls from the near to grow the Supreme Court arsenic good arsenic enforce word limits connected the justices. (Saul Loeb//Pool via REUTERS)

In May 2023, Georgia Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson joined Democratic Sens. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Tina Smith of Minnesota, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, arsenic good arsenic Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler of New York, Cori Bush of Mississippi, and Adam Schiff of California, successful reintroducing the Judiciary Act of 2023.  

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"We privation to forestall this benignant of rot and decay from ever overtaking a Supreme Court again," Johnson told Fox News Digital successful October.