Tucker, Judge Jeanine slam Democrat plan to pack Supreme Court as 'lunacy'

good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight happy wednesday we had one thing for you now we have another because things aren't changing enough in this country or changing fast enough we begin tonight with the fox news alert we just learned the democrats in the congress are preparing a bill to pack the supreme court to add four new justices to our supreme court that would change the country forever now we're going to be monitoring this and bringing more details as we get them but as of right now we know these things the bill is being led by congressman jerry nadler of new york that's in the house and in the senate by senator ed markey of massachusetts again packing the supreme court you remember president biden said he was impaneling some kind of blue ribbon commission to consider this now elected democrats in the congress are trying to force it joining us now to react is judge jeanine pirro she's the host of justice with judge janine josh thanks so much for joining us tonight so packing the supreme court this is something that franklin roosevelt tried had to back off because it was it was considered too radical in the middle of the most radical legislative period in american history the new deal this was too much what would this mean if it were to happen what this would mean tucker is that we would have another legislative body uh in the united states congress has historically uh been filled up the supreme court has historically been filled by presidents who when they are there if there's a vacancy they appoint someone in line with their thinking so sometimes they're more liberal sometimes they're more conservative and i think that when president trump had the ability the ability to add three justices the left went crazy now biden wouldn't answer if you'll recall the question during the uh during the campaign and neither would kamala harris answer and now they just had a committee that was supposed to look at it now all of a sudden they've got a bill uh that the house they've got support in the house and in the senate this will change the united states dramatically the left will have the ability to have a court which is essentially nothing more than a legislative leaning uh body that will approve of all of the issues that they are trying to make across the board in the united states we will no longer have a supreme court that is based on the number of justices depending upon who the president is and it will all be leaning toward the person who is in office and who has the power this is madness it's madness as if the country isn't lost enough i i wonder if it just by this happening the country doesn't change i mean so people imagine the supreme court or third branch of government is essentially impartial i mean these are wise people with lifetime appointments whose only job is to assess legislation against the constitution and decide whether it's consistent with that the democrats are now saying no more pretense it's purely a political body rubber stamps our agenda i mean won't this change how people feel about that well it'll change what people feel about the court but that won't make a darn bit of difference to the people who are in power who are determined to make sure that their agenda is passed because you've got the president and you've got the uh you've got the congress and now you've got the supreme court i mean look you can look at amendments to the constitution and decide that there are issues that really spin off of that amendment when you have activists on the supreme court they can take issues that we never considered constitutional issues and make them the law of the land this is lunacy whether it has to do with unions or criminal justice or whatever their agenda is for the day there is no longer an objective body that the united states can respect the supreme court of the land they will we will lose our respect for that court is nothing more than a political con political legislative body an imprimatur if you will for the democrats i think that's wise and i think your first observation is every bit is wise which is they don't care what you think this is which is not the way we think of democracy in a democracy our leaders care what we think by definition judging i appreciate it so much thank you thank you

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Length: 4min 20sec (260 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 15 2021