Press Statement
For Immediate Release: 7.17.24
Contact: John Manning, media@firstliberty.org
Direct: 972-941-4453
Religious Liberty Expert Warns Biden’s Proposed Changes to Supreme Court Threat to Republic
Polling nationwide has shown overwhelming majority of Americans reject changes to court, seen as upsetting judicial independence, integrity.
Washington, DC—Statement from Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO, and Chief Counsel for First Liberty Institute, regarding reports that President Joe Biden will announce proposed changes to the Supreme Court of the United States:
Transforming the Supreme Court into another partisan body would destroy the independence of the judiciary and threaten the civil liberties of all Americans. Joe Biden once said that changing the structure of the Court was ‘a bonehead idea’ that would ‘put in question … the independence of the … Supreme Court.’ He was right. The last thing we need in this country right now is a Supreme Court coup that would threaten judicial independence and our democratic republic. This is a radical attempt by a desperate politician.
Polling has revealed that 72 percent of Americans believe that the politicization of the Supreme Court threatens judicial independence and 69 percent do not want Congress taking over and setting rules for judicial ethics. First Liberty, the nation’s premier law firm dedicated exclusively to religious liberty, commissioned the poll in June 2023.
Learn more at supremecoup.com.
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