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Academic ‘Study’ Encourages SCOTUS Packing: No Political Fallout For Democrats

Paul Bois
Academic ‘Study’ Encourages SCOTUS Packing: No Political Fallout For Democrats
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Fearing that the Supreme Court could swing reliably to the Right if President Trump gets reelected, leftists are now openly pushing the idea of court-packing for the day that Democrats occupy the White House again.

On Monday, the far-left HuffPost touted a new academic study from political scientist Aaron Belkin of San Francisco State University and James Druckman of Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research that openly encouraged Democrats to pack the Supreme Court, asserting the party would face little political fallout, if any at all. The study was funded by the progressive group Take Back the Court, which has openly championed court-packing as a solution to a conservative judiciary.

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