Jonathan Turley: Here are the worst proposals to reform Supreme Court | TheHill

The vote on Monday to make Judge Amy Coney Barrett the 115th Supreme Court justice will be more than a confirmation. It will be a dispensation, according to former Vice President Joe Biden and various Democratic senators. They have cited the vote as relieving them of any guilt in fundamentally changing the court to manufacture a liberal majority. Like school kids daring others to step over a line as an excuse to fight, Democrats insist that filling this vacancy will invite changes ranging from packing the court to stripping it of authority to rule in certain cases.

The problem is that the line the Senate will step over is set by the Constitution, while the proposals by Democrats would retaliate against the use of a power granted by the Constitution. Democrats are floating a parade of horribles to reform the Supreme Court and negate its growing conservative majority. Biden said this week that the court is out of whack and, as president, he would assemble a commission of experts to explore a number of alternatives that go well beyond packing. The commission would report to him 180 days after his inauguration.

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