Democrats plan to add 4 justices to give them majority of Supreme Court

Democrats are preparing to unveil legislation that would add four seats to the US Supreme Court.

The bill, first reported by the Intercept, is expected to be introduced in both the House and Senate on Thursday.

It would up the number of seats on the high court to 13 from the current nine.

Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, a co-sponsor of the bill, told the Wall Street Journal that adding justices “will shore up the public’s confidence in the court and its legitimacy in the public’s eyes.”

The sponsors will announce the proposal at a press conference Thursday morning on the steps of the court, where they will be joined by activists from liberal groups including Take Back The Court, which has advocated for increasing the number of justices.

Markey said, “We need more than a commission to restore integrity to the court.”

Markey said, “We need more than a commission to restore integrity to the court.”

Republicans and legal purists decry the idea as “court-packing” and say it will undo the court’s historical insulation from politics.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) blasted the Dems’ proposal, saying, “Packing the Supreme Court would destroy the Supreme Court.”

“The Democrats will do anything for power,” he wrote on Twitter.

“The moderate left is gone,” said Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows.

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