A declaration of war on democracy

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House judiciary committee chairman 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 Joe Biden to almost instantly turn the current liberal minority into a majority – ensuring that the Supreme Court, and the US Constitution, would no longer stand in the way of anything Democrats chose to do.

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

its way, it simply denounces as ‘‘antidemocratic’’ and ‘‘racist’’.

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 courtpacking. 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.