President Joe Biden’s appointment of a commission to study whether to expand the number of judges on the Supreme Court has been grabbing most of the headlines in the debate over court-packing. Yet leftists are, in reality, waging a two-front campaign to tilt the federal judiciary in their favor. While the highest court in the land attracts most of the attention, leftists plot an ideological capture of the lower courts.
“It was a bonehead idea. It was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. And it put in question, for an entire decade, the independence of the most significant body… in this country, the Supreme Court of the United States of America.”
Even if President Joe Biden and congressional leaders are successful in putting down the mini-insurrection in the Democratic Party behind a bill to pack the Supreme Court, it’s clear that events are moving faster than the White House can manage.
President Joe Biden’s executive order creating a Commission on the Supreme Court purports to “provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform.” In reality, it’s just another political power move—one the country rejected before.
Woke progressives have corrupted classical liberalism, the one-time bulwark of religious liberty and free speech. Were he alive today, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, the liberal “Lion of the Senate” and chief advocate for the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, would likely be driven into exile by today’s woke mob for simply giving religious liberty a reasonable defense.
This week, I had the privilege of testifying at the House Armed Services Committee on the topic of “Extremism in the Armed Forces.” I must confess, however, that I was not quite sure what to expect. I seriously doubt anyone in Congress or military leadership disagrees with the notion that there is no place for true extremists in America’s military.
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