Tyranny of the radical left must be blocked

NEW York’s own Rep. Jerry Nadler and his buddies just declared war on our nation’s democracy, even as they pretend to be defending it. That’s how radical their Supreme Court-packing bill is. The bill would expand the high court by four seats, allowing President Biden to almost instantly turn the current liberal minority into a majority — ensuring that the Supremes, and the US Constitution, would no longer stand in the way of anything that Democrats chose to do.

Never mind that the Founders’ intricate system of checks and balances, designed to prevent temporary majorities from turning into permanent tyrannies, is why this republic has survived for almost 233 years, nor that the high court’s independence from passing political winds is central to that balance.

For all its recent noise about voting rights and so on, the left cares only about power — it wants to transform America now.

Anything that stands in its way, it simply denounces as “anti-Democratic” and “racist.” Hence Rep. Mondaire Jones’ obscene claim that the current court is “hostile to democracy itself.”

Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Dems have opposed court packing in the past. A “bonehead idea,” Biden called it.

Yet now they’re afraid to condemn it outright. Biden kicked the can by naming a commission to consider court-packing. Pelosi says she’ll block this bill for now, but calls it “an idea to be considered.”

They are terrified — and, therefore, controlled — by the extreme left wing of their party.

There is no way to overstate this. Messing with the fundamental structure of our government will undermine our democracy. Any responsible politician must oppose it.