Dems idiotic rhetoric on courts reveals what theyre really after

The story plays out the same way virtually every time.Democrats, egged on by the increasingly powerful progressive base, push some obviously unconstitutional scheme that they contended is needed to preserve “democracy.”The courts inevitably knock down the ploy.Frustrated, Democrats ratchet up the anger, promising to “reform” the judiciary that stands in their way.Rep.Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) recently argued on the House floor that the next Democratic White House “does not need a court reform commission like some college seminar.

We need action.“We need term limits for justices.We need to expand this morally bankrupt Supreme Court from 9 to 13.”Do we? Great, let’s do it today.Republicans run both houses and the White House, after all; they could pack the court right now.According to Khanna, there’s nothing procedurally or constitutionally improper about it.

Indeed, it’s imperative.Surely, the congressman isn’t proposing that one party should be empowered to operate under a different set of rules than the other?Of course, we all know that if President Donald Trump packed the court, progressives would shriek “fascism” until they had a mass stroke.The contemporary leftist is a consequentialist with no limiting principles.After the Virginia Supreme Court stopped the Democrats’ unconstitutional gerrymandering scheme, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now the favorite Democratic Party presidential prospect 2028 in a number of polls, claimed that the court “didn’t overturn a map” but “overturned an election.”“The power of the American people, that should be the ultimate check on all three branches,” she declared.In any other age, vocalizing illiterate nonsense about our system of governance might be an embarrassing career-ending flub.Today, it’s the norm among progressives.At this point, I’m not even sure most of her audience understands why this crass majoritarian argument is un-American.Then again, none of the left’s political objecti...