Written by Jorge Gomez
In the biggest wave of judicial confirmations so far, the U.S. Senate recently confirmed nine (9) nominees to the federal courts. This brings the total number of judges appointed during the Biden administration to twenty-eight (28), which means the President continues outpacing his predecessors by sizeable margins.
Here’s a quick look at judicial confirmations at this point in a President’s first year, dating back to the Reagan administration:
President Biden is having a relative measure of success up to this point in his presidency, with some judicial analysts calling his confirmations “historic.”… Continue Reading
Tags: appellate court, Beth Robinson, Donald Trump, federal court, First Liberty, Joe Biden, Judicial Nominations, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | 
November 5, 2021 7:00 AM | 
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Written by Jorge Gomez
Which branch of the federal government do you trust the most?
The President? Congress? The Supreme Court of the United States?
Gallup reports that a vast majority of Americans—an average of two-thirds or more—say they have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust the judicial branch. The same polling shows over the past two decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently ranked as the most trusted branch of the federal government.… Continue Reading
Written by Jorge Gomez
As members of the Democratic Party recently doubled down on their calls to pack the U.S. Supreme Court, Justices Stephen Breyer and Amy Coney Barrett issued a series of responses to those pushing to rig the Court for ideological and political gain.
In an interview with Fox News, Justice Breyer warned of the dangers of altering the structure of the Court. When asked about the idea of increasing the number of justices on the bench, he responded:
“Well, if one party could do it, I guess another party could do it…On the surface it seems to me you start changing all these things around, and people will lose trust in the court.”
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Written by David E. Smith
This week, Illinois Family Spotlight focuses on current issues regarding religious freedom and the U.S. judicial system. To start the podcast, Monte Larrick interviews well-known Colorado baker and cake artist, Jack Phillips and general counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, Kristen Waggoner.
Phillips describes the persecution and targeting he has endured at the hands of the LGBT faction in his ongoing battle for religious freedom within the context of his business.… Continue Reading
Written by Jorge Gomez
When Americans hear the term “court-packing,” they almost instinctively make a connection to the radical coup attempt of the U.S. Supreme Court.
However, court-packing isn’t limited to adding stacks of politically motivated, activist justices to the nation’s highest court.
While rigging the U.S. Supreme Court would indeed destroy one of America’s most venerated institutions, the far Left is also waging a two-front attack to ideologically capture the lower federal courts—a plot that could endanger the judiciary’s integrity from top to bottom and accelerate the erosion of our God-given rights and freedoms.… Continue Reading
Written by Liberty McArtor
A lot has changed since President Franklin Roosevelt tried to rig the U.S. Supreme Court in 1937, but some things stay the same—like widespread opposition to court-packing among both political parties.
When President Roosevelt tried to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices to advance his New Deal agenda in the late 1930s, his own party was key in stopping him. Despite FDR’s overall popularity, Congress—and the American people—recognized that his court-packing plan was a “bonehead idea,” to use Joe Biden’s term from 1983.… Continue Reading
Written by John A. Sparks
Six months ago, the idea of expanding the size of the U.S. Supreme Court was side-stepped by presidential candidate Joe Biden, and the issue seemed to wane. But now, “court packing” has surfaced once again—and in two forms. The first is an executive order from President Biden creating a commission to study possible reforms of the U.S. Supreme Court. The second is legislation proposed by progressive Democrats to increase the court’s size by four new justices.… Continue Reading
Tags: Donald J. Trump, Erwin Chemerinsky, George W. Bush, Hugo Black, James Lindgren, Jimmy Carter, John A. Sparks, John Marshall, John Roberts, Joseph Story, Roe v. Wade, Samuel Alito, Stephen J. Field, Steven Calabresi, U.S. Supreme Court, William Brennan
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | May 7, 2021 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Court Packing 2.0: Why The U.S. Supreme Court Should Not Be Changed
Written by Liberty McArtor
America moved closer to a 180-degree shift last week when President Joe Biden established the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. And now, the treacherous idea of court-packing is closer to becoming reality, as Democrats filed a bill this week to add four (4) seats to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In examining “reforms” to the U.S. Supreme Court, the major issue the commission will examine is court-packing—put simply, increasing the number of justices on the U.S.… Continue Reading
Written by Thorin Anderson
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 78 that the U.S. Supreme Court would be the weakest branch of government because it had “no influence over either the sword or the purse.” Why then the panic and flaming hair on the Democrat side of the isle with the elevation of Amy Coney Barrett to that Court? What gives? She claims to be an originalist, and by definition an originalist ignores his or her own policy preferences and yields to the intention of the U.S.… Continue Reading
