Hoover Institute senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Monday on Fox News that Democrats’ push to reform the U.S. Supreme Court could backfire on them heading into November.
Hanson appeared on “The Ingraham Angle” to discuss President Joe Biden’s new proposal calling for a radical overhaul of the Supreme Court, including term limits for justices and a “binding code of conduct.” As Democratic lawmakers have pressured Biden on reforms, Fox host Laura Ingraham asked the senior fellow why the Democrats wouldn’t call for the reforms “10 years ago.”
“Well, we know why, for over 80 years FDR had a black mark on his record and that was trying to pack the court in 1937. Everybody agreed with that and now they’re even worse. You know, they see the court as a popular assembly and when they don’t have a majority on it. They want to get rid of it,” Hanson said.
“So judge Canon rules against them, Jack Smith, reassign her. Chuck Schumer doesn’t like what the court might say about abortion, then he threatens the justices by name and says you are not going to know what hit you,” Hanson continued. “They swarmed the justice’s home with impunity. They leak memos against a statute about a forthcoming abortion. Any means are necessary for their humanitarian end of mandated equality.”