“The View” co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin attempted to rewrite history during a live television segment, claiming repeatedly that it was always Republicans, not Democrats, who “stacked” the Supreme Court.
The conversation began with ousted MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who recently called on liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step aside “for the sake of all of us.”
Despite referring to Sotomayor as the “greatest liberal to sit on the Supreme Court in my adult lifetime,” he argued that she should do what the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not — much to the dismay of many liberals — and retire when she was guaranteed that a Democratic president and Senate would rubber-stamp a liberal replacement.
Goldberg was not impressed with Hasan, arguing that he should be going after Justice Clarence Thomas instead.
“Getting her off doesn’t mean somebody else is going to get on and be better,” she said.
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Goldberg went on to claim that Democrats did not “stack the court,” arguing that Republicans were the only ones guilty of such action.
“Democrats, we don’t stack the court. We don’t. We don’t do that,” she said. “A lot of us wanted [Biden] to do that but he won’t do that because that’s not how you run the government, that’s his feeling.”
Revisionist history and lies from ABC News.
Whoopi Goldberg declares: "Democrats, we don't stack the court. We don't. We don't do that."
FACT CHECK: False. Democratic President FDR stacked the court.
Sunny Hostin claims the GOP "stacked the court" by filling vacant seats. pic.twitter.com/gzz0OAq8iZ— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 4, 2024
Goldberg and Hostin then claimed that by filling empty seats, the Republicans had “stacked the court.”
Despite their claims, the only real attempt at “stacking” or “packing” the Court came from the late Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the form of his Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937. If that bill had passed, FDR would have been able to appoint one new Justice for every sitting justice who reached the age of 70 and did not retire.
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“This plan of mine is not attacking of the court; it seeks to restore the court to its rightful and historic place in our system of constitutional government and to have it resume its high task of building anew on the Constitution ‘a system of living law,'” Roosevelt said at the time.
The Senate Judiciary Committee delivered a scathing review of the plan, however, stating, “The bill is an invasion of judicial power such as has never before been attempted in this country … It is essential to the continuance of our constitutional democracy that the judiciary be completely independent of both the executive and legislative branches of the government. … It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.”