Will Democrats Force America to Choose Between Trump and Court-Packing?

Come Inauguration Day 2025, they might regret it.

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People carry cutouts of Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito as abortion rights protesters participate in nationwide demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting the possibility of overturning the Roe v. Wade decision, in New York City, May 14, 2022.

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Progressives have generally done a good job of keeping their radical agenda for the courts quiet before the November election.

But several of them broke cover this past weekend during an MSNBC panel discussion on the Supreme Court’s oral argument during the presidential-immunity case involving Donald Trump. Alicia Menendez, co-host of The Weekend and the daughter of indicted U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, was scathing in her criticism of the Court’s conservative members. She said that clearly something “structural” — expanding the size of the Supreme Court or other “reform” — is necessary.

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