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Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Democrats Add Plank to Party Platform That Will Destroy the Federal Judiciary As We Know It

Leftists in Portland have been trying to destroy a federal courthouseon a nightly basis, and now the Democratic Party is attempting to destroy the entire federal judiciary as we know it by adding a radical new plank to the party's platform.

Even conservatives who take issue with the president on certain things have to applaud Donald Trump's remaking of the federal judiciary. The president and the Republican-controlled Senate have appointed a record number of judges to the U.S. circuit courts through normal constitutional means. To be fair, Republicans were aided greatly by former Senator Harry Reid's short-sighted decision in 2013 to kill the filibuster in order to ram through a handful of judges for then-President Obama. Thank you, Harry Reid.

But with help from the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation, Trump's new picks have been on the younger and more conservative side of things. This had led the Democratic Party, which has been filling up the federal bench with activist judges for decades, to have a complete meltdown. Like children who only want to play a game so long as they're winning, Trump's windfall of judicial appointments has Democrats now calling for "structural court reforms," E.g. court packing, in the party's new platform.

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