House Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on ‘Packing’ the Supreme Court

Republicans Sound Like They’re Getting Nervous About Supreme Court Expansion

On Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Republicans held a hearing to discuss, as they put it in the hearing’s official title, “a threat to the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.” The threat to which they referred, though, was not the Court’s myriad ethical scandals, or its efforts to gut both the Voting Rights Act and the Fifteenth Amendment, or its 200-plus-year track record of concentrating power in the hands of well-connected white guys named John. …

US House GOP attacks proposals to expand Supreme Court and counter conservative majority • Washington State Standard

The U.S. Supreme Court, on April 9, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)U.S. House Republicans on Thursday denounced expanding the Supreme Court, an idea some Democrats support to dilute the court’s conservative majority after years of decisions that have angered liberals. Republican and Democratic lawmakers at a hearing clashed over the future of the high court following Louisiana v. Callais, a landmark decision gutting the federal Vo…

US House GOP attacks proposals to expand Supreme Court and counter conservative majority

The U.S. Supreme Court, on April 9, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)U.S. House Republicans on Thursday denounced expanding the Supreme Court, an idea some Democrats support to dilute the court’s conservative majority after years of decisions that have angered liberals. Republican and Democratic lawmakers at a hearing clashed over the future of the high court following Louisiana v. Callais, a landmark decision gutting the federal Vo…

In Hearing On Court-Packing’s Partisan Perils, Not A Single Democrat Disavowed It

Democrats are pushing for court-packing because 'they don’t like the decisions that this good court is giving this country,' Jim Jordan said.

In Hearing On Court-Packing, Not A Single Democrat Disavowed It

Not a single Democrat who attended a House subcommittee hearing about court-packing on Thursday disavowed the radical proposal.

US House GOP attacks proposals to expand Supreme Court, counter conservative majority

The U.S. Supreme Court, on April 9, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)U.S. House Republicans on Thursday denounced expanding the Supreme Court, an idea some Democrats support to dilute the court’s conservative majority after years of decisions that have angered liberals. Republican and Democratic lawmakers at a hearing clashed over the future of the high court following Louisiana v. Callais, a landmark decision gutting the federal Vo…