Against court-packing!

Hugh Hewitt writes in the Washington Post,

...“Court packing” is now a major issue in the presidential campaign because neither Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden nor his running mate, California Sen. Kamala D. Harris, will say what they think about demands by their party’s radical wing to expand the court.

...What matters here isn’t the result of this year’s vote, but the stability of the rule of law. What matters is the court’s ability to have the final say, and to be regarded as above politics when it does so. That’s why it could order President Richard M. Nixon to turn over secretly recorded tapes to Watergate investigators and see him quickly comply; why it could order Southern schools to desegregate and have its order enforced across decades; why it could decree only a few years ago that same-sex couples are entitled to marry and see the ruling immediately acquire the durability of Marbury v. Madison, the 1803 decision establishing the court’s right to rule on the constitutionality of federal statutes.

Court-packing is a threat to the Supreme Court and thus to every American freedom, especially religious liberty, the Second Amendment and property rights, and the separation of powers fundamental to our republic’s durability. The Biden-Harris ticket and every Democratic Senate candidate should publicly condemn the idea or be rejected by the voters for failing a fundamental test of their suitability for office.

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